Special Projects (CNS): National Center for Women and Information Technology

项目负责人：Robert B. Schnabel，美国科罗拉多大学；露辛达·桑德斯，科罗拉多大学；来自学术界、政府、工业界和非营利组织的领导人组成了一个广泛的全国联盟，成立了国家妇女和信息技术中心（NCWIT），以解决妇女在信息技术（IT）领域参与度低的问题。该中心的20年目标是工作场所平等：男女平等参与IT产业和学术事业。实现这一目标的策略是在一个系统的、广泛的方法中接受和利用现有的努力：收集、评估并积极传播有效的实践；包括完整的教育和职业管道；并根据测量和数据，在最需要的地方进行新的研究和开发新的项目。科罗拉多大学博尔德分校与安妮塔·博格妇女与技术研究所合作，获得了CISE特别项目奖，该奖项将为NCWIT的基础设施、研究和应用提供部分资金，重点放在本科教育、研究生教育和教师职业领域，并通过该中心的学术联盟与广泛的大学合作。该中心的几个主要项目将在该奖项的支持下进行。本科课程计划的有效做法将收集加强计算机科学/信息技术本科教育的方法，以增加妇女的参与和成功，在需要时提供额外的评估，积极传播最有效的方法，并建议适当调整本科课程和教育方法。社区大学管道项目将确定从社区大学招收女性进入计算机科学（CS）和信息技术（IT）四年制学位课程的有效做法。研究生入学标准项目将对一批计算机科学研究生进行为期多年的研究，探讨他们为研究生院所做的准备和资格，以及他们的经历、进步和成功。教师职业项目将研究帮助或阻碍女性在学术CS和IT部门获得高级领导职位的因素，并将确定帮助女性晋升高级领导职位的最佳实践。这个项目的智力价值是多方面的。在Robert Schnabel博士的领导下，NCWIT将协调七个组织的科学家的活动，将他们对信息技术中的女性的研究工作集中在一起，并收集、评估和传播最佳实践。该中心有潜力为信息技术性别平等领域的学术研究做出重大贡献，并作为将该领域的研究成果转化为实践的促进者。女孩和妇女参与信息技术（IT）的比例非常低，而且情况没有改善。NCWIT活动的更广泛影响在于它有可能增加进入和留在IT行业的女孩和妇女的数量。

ABSTRACTSpecial Projects Program - FY04CNS 0413538 PI's: Robert B. Schnabel, University of Colorado; Lucinda M. Sanders, University of Colorado; and Telle Whitney, Anita Borg Institute for Women and TechnologyTitle: National Center for Women and Information TechnologyA broad national coalition of leaders from academia, government, industry, and non-profit organizations has mobilized to form the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), to address the issue of low participation of women in information technology (IT). The Center's twenty-year goal is workplace parity: equal participation for women and men in IT industrial and academic careers. The strategy for meeting this goal is to embrace and leverage existing efforts within a systemic, broad approach that: collects, assesses, and aggressively disseminates effective practices; encompasses the full education and career pipeline; and conducts new research and develops new programs where most needed, based upon measurement and data. The University of Colorado at Boulder, in collaboration with the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, has received a CISE Special Projects award that will provide a portion of the funding for the NCWIT's infrastructure, research and application, with an emphasis upon the areas of undergraduate education, graduate education, and faculty careers, and collaboration with a broad set of universities through the Center's academic alliance.Several main projects in the Center will be conducted with the support of this award. The effective practices in undergraduate curriculum project will collect approaches for enhancing undergraduate education in computer science/IT that increase the participation and success of women, provide additional evaluation where needed, actively disseminate the most effective approaches, and suggest adjustments to undergraduate curriculum and educational approaches as appropriate. The community college pipeline project will determine effective practices for recruiting women from community colleges to four-year degree programs in computer science (CS) and IT. The graduate admissions criteria project will study a cohort of CS graduate students over a multi-year period, exploring their preparation and qualifications for graduate school and their experiences, progress and successes. The faculty careers project will research the factors that help or hinder women attain senior leadership positions in academic CS and IT departments, and will identify best practices that help women advance to senior leadership positions. The intellectual merit of this project is multi-dimensional. The NCWIT, under the leadership of Dr. Robert Schnabel, will coordinate activities of scientists in seven organizations, pulling together their research efforts on women in IT as well as collecting, evaluating and disseminating best practices. The Center has the potential to significantly contribute to scholarship in the field of gender equity in IT, as well as to act as a facilitator for translating the research findings in this area to practice. Girls and women are participating in information technology (IT) at very low rates, and the situation is not improving. The broader impact of NCWIT's activities lies in its potential to increase the number of girls and women entering and staying in IT.