Workshop on Industrial Support for Broadening Participation in Computing

计算研究协会已获得特别项目的支持，将于明年2月召开一次研讨会。邀请研讨会的目的是将来自行业的参与者聚集在一起，告知并将他们纳入NSF新的扩大参与计算工作。 这一教育举措的动机是相当大的：在攻读计算机科学学位的学生人数显着下降，缺乏协议的核心内容，鉴于应用领域的影响越来越大，规模和系统的复杂性的稳步增长，以及离岸带来的国家竞争力的挑战。 这次会议是使利益攸关方参与在全国范围内解决问题的重要一步。这种转变对于信息技术（IT）劳动力准备和美国在技术创新方面的持续领先地位至关重要。 研讨会的一个主要成果是确定所需的变化和影响干预措施和变化的战略领域，这些措施和变化应该导致美国更多样化，更广泛，训练有素的IT劳动力。智力优势：研讨会的目的是发起一个全国性的讨论，与主要领导人的行业catalzye努力扩大参与计算职业生涯中的所有点在职业管道。 这种转变对于信息技术（IT）劳动力准备和美国在技术创新方面的持续领先地位至关重要。 讲习班将确定需要改变的领域和实现这种改变的战略。更广泛的影响：这个讲习班（沿着其他类似的有针对性的讲习班）应该开始一系列干预转变，这将对全国各地的机构的学生产生影响，因为他们准备作为IT专业人员的职业生涯，使学生更好地准备加入未来的计算劳动力。

The Computing Research Association has received Special Projects support to convene a workshop in February of the coming year. The purpose of invitation only workshop is to bring together participants from industry to inform and include them in the new Broadening Participation in Computing effort of the NSF. The motivation for this educational initiative is considerable: significant decreases in the number of students pursuing CS degrees, lack of agreement on the core CS content in light of increasing impact of application areas, the steady growth of size and complexity of systems, and the challenges to national competitiveness brought on by off-shoring. This meeting represents an important step in engaging the stakeholders in addressing the issues on a nationwide scale. Such a transformation is critical to information technology (IT) workforce preparation and the continued preeminence of the U.S. in technology innovation. A major outcome of workshop is the identification of areas of needed change and strategies for effecting interventions and changes that should result in a more diverse, broad, and well trained IT workforce in the United States.Intellectual Merit: The purpose of workshop is to initiate a national discussion with key leaders to industry to catalzye efforts to broaden participation in computing careers at all points in the career pipeline. Such a transformation is critical to information technology (IT) workforce preparation and the continued preeminence of the U.S. in technology innovation. The workshop will identify areas of needed change and strategies for effecting that change.Broader Impact: This workshop (along with other similar targeted workshops) should start a series of intervention transformations that will have impact on student at institutions throughout the nation as they prepare for careers as IT professionals, making the students better prepared to join the computing workforce of the future.