BPC-AE: An Extension to Widening the Research Pipeline

这笔资金支持扩大参与计算（BPC）联盟之间的计算研究协会？妇女地位委员会（CRA-W）和计算机多样化联盟（CDC）。 CRA-W/CDC联盟将扩大到包括科罗拉多性别和信息技术联盟和BPC英联邦信息技术教育联盟，以努力制定方案，在从社区学院到四年制本科课程的信息技术管道中架起一座桥梁。该扩展支持继续由CRA-W和CDC联合运行的高效分布式指导计划和本科生合作研究经验计划。 两个新的变化将被引入，社区学院导师计划和本科生多学科合作研究经验。 计算机专业工作坊和杰出讲座系列将继续支持招募本科生申请研究生院的活动，并增加一个版本，鼓励社区学院的妇女和少数民族攻读计算机学士学位。这个项目的智力价值在于强大的计算机研究人员和领导团队，他们指导了许多活动。 这些领导者提供专业知识，榜样和冠军的努力，已被证明是有效的解决代表性不足的计算。联盟伙伴？致力于对整个联盟和单个项目组合进行广泛而有效的评估，为社区提供了有关有效性的重要数据，并为涉及增加计算机学科参与的干预措施的项目提供了最佳实践。该项目的更广泛影响包括吸引和留住妇女和代表性不足的少数民族进入计算机科学和工程。该项目有可能产生新的模式，以发展更多样化的学生和教职员工群体，并在促进信息技术学科学习的同时促进发现和理解。 该项目还将提供受过更好技术教育的劳动力，以满足国家安全和经济优先事项。

This funding supports extension of the Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) alliance between the Computing Research Association?s Committee on the Status of Women (CRA-W) and the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC). The CRA-W/CDC alliance will be expanded to include the Colorado Coalition for Gender and IT and the BPC Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education in an effort to create programs to build a bridge in the information technology pipeline from community college to four-year undergraduate programs. The extension supports continuation of the highly effective Distributed Mentoring Program and Collaborative Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program run jointly by CRA-W and CDC. Two new variations will be introduced, the Community College Mentoring Program and Multidisciplinary Collaborative Research Experiences for Undergraduates. Discipline-Specific Workshops and the Distinguished Lecture Series will continue to support events to recruit undergraduates to apply to graduate school and add a version to encourage community college women and minorities to pursue bachelors degrees in computing.The intellectual merit of this project lies in the strong team of computing researchers and leaders who direct the many activities. These leaders provide expertise, role models, and champion efforts that have been proven to be effective in addressing under-representation in computing. The alliance partners? commitment to extensive and effective evaluation of the overall alliance and the individual program portfolio provides the community with important data about effectiveness and the development of best practices for programs involving interventions that increase participation in computing as a discipline.The broader impacts of the project include attracting and retaining women and under-represented minorities into computer science and engineering. The project has the potential to produce new models for developing a more diverse group of students and faculty members and to advance discovery and understanding while promoting learning in the information technology disciplines. The project will also provide a better technically educated workforce to meet national security and economic priorities.