NSF BPC-A: Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Sciences (iAAMCS)

克莱姆森大学与阿拉巴马大学、奥本大学、卡内基梅隆大学、莱斯大学、威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校和温斯顿-塞勒姆州立大学合作，提议扩大多个NSF BPC联盟(A4RC、ARTSI、EL联盟)和示范项目(AARCS)的工作，这些联盟利用不同的战略来扩大非裔美国人在计算科学中的参与。尽管这些以前的联盟和示范项目在实施战略方面有所不同，但它们都非常强调指导。因此，新合并的非裔美国人计算机科学指导研究所(iAAMCS，发音为“我是cs”)将作为国家资源，并强调指导是增加非裔美国人参与计算的主要战略，特别是在博士及以后的水平。IAAMCS的首要目标是增加获得计算科学博士学位的非裔美国人的数量，从而增加学院、政府和行业的非裔美国研究人员的数量。为了实现这一目标，iAAMCS联盟将(1)增加以研究为重点的非裔美国博士毕业生的数量；(2)留住和提拔计算机领域的非裔美国博士生、教职员工和研究人员；(3)培养在学术界、政府和行业拥有计算专业知识的未来非裔美国领导人。IAAMCS将由一个著名的咨询委员会进行评估，该委员会由计算机专家组成，并由新的研究管道评估中心(CERP)进行外部同行评估。

Clemson University, in collaboration with the University of Alabama, Auburn University, Carnegie Mellon University, Rice University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Winston-Salem State University, propose to extend the work of multiple NSF BPC Alliances (A4RC, ARTSI, EL Alliance) and Demonstration Projects (AARCS) that utilized different strategies toward broadening the participation of African-Americans in computing sciences. Although these previous alliances and demonstration projects differed with respect to implementation strategies, they all had a strong emphasis on mentoring. As such, the newly combined Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Sciences (iAAMCS, pronounced "i am cs") will serve as a national resource and emphasize mentoring as the primary strategy for increasing the participation of African-Americans in computing, specifically at the Ph.D. level and beyond. The overarching goal of the iAAMCS is to increase the number of African-Americans obtaining computing sciences doctoral degrees leading to an increase in the number of African-American researchers in the academy, government, and industry. Toward this goal, the iAAMCS Alliance will (1) increase the number of African-American Ph.D. graduates who enter the workforce with a research focus; (2) retain and advance African-American Ph.D. students, faculty and researchers in computing; and (3) develop future African-American leaders with computing expertise in the academy, government, and industry. The iAAMCS will be evaluated by a prestigious advisory committee consisting of experts from computing as well as an external peer evaluation conducted by the new Center for the Evaluation of the Research Pipeline (CERP).