Computing Scholarship Program

该项目在维拉诺瓦大学建立了一个为期四年的奖学金计划，以促进NSF增加CSEMS专业大学生数量的目标。具体地说，该项目增加了攻读计算机科学专业的学生人数，特别强调招聘和留住女性和拉美裔等代表性不足的群体。该计划有一个互补的目标，即鼓励所有计算机科学专业的毕业生考虑在宾夕法尼亚州和费城选择广泛的技术公司工作。该项目将维拉诺瓦大学为大三和大四学生提供的大量学术和金融学生支持与国家科学基金会的支持和为大一和大二学生举办的专业发展研讨会结合在一起。该项目专注于计算机科学的技术领域，将加强维拉诺瓦为所有专业招收女性和西班牙裔高中生的重大承诺。该项目的学术价值在于将计算科学系的一个新的专业发展研讨会与每年向该项目的一年级学生提供11个3125美元的NSF资助的奖学金相结合。在最初的一年，将为二年级和三年级的学生额外提供18个奖学金。这两项活动都是为了帮助学生克服学业或经济上的障碍，以保持在计算机科学专业的地位并取得成功。该项目更广泛的影响在于它对宾夕法尼亚州东南部未被充分代表的学生群体和经济发展的影响。该项目开发了一种能够吸引、培养和支持代表不足的学生的文化。该项目还对确定和完善留住CSEMS专业学生的最佳实践产生了更广泛的影响。该项目与维拉诺瓦的其他CSEMS部门分享这些调查结果，并在国家教育会议上传播这些调查结果。

This project establishes a four-year scholarship program at Villanova University that contributes to NSF's goals of increasing the number of college students pursuing CSEMS majors. Specifically, this project increases the number of students pursuing a computer science major, with special emphasis on recruiting and retaining underrepresented groups such as women and Hispanics. The program has the complementary goal of encouraging all groups of computer science graduates to consider careers at Pennsylvania and Philadelphia's wide selection of technology firms. This project integrates the significant academic and financial student support at Villanova that is available for juniors and seniors with NSF support and professional development seminars for freshmen and sophomores. This project's focus on the technical field of computer science will enhance Villanova's substantial commitment to recruiting female and Hispanic high school students for all majors. The project's intellectual merit lies in the integration of a new professional development seminar in the Department of Computing Sciences with the offering of eleven $3125 NSF-funded scholarships to first-year students each year of the program. In the initial year, eighteen additional scholarships will be offered to second and third year students. Both activities are designed to help students overcome academic or financial obstacles to remaining in and thriving in a computer science major. The broader impact of this project is founded in its outreach to underrepresented student populations and economic development in southeastern Pennsylvania. The project develops a culture that can attract, nurture and support underrepresented students. The project also has the broader impact of identifying and refining best practices in retaining students in CSEMS majors. The project shares these findings with other CSEMS departments at Villanova as well as disseminates these findings at national education conferences.