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

佛罗里达大学与克莱姆森大学、亚拉巴马大学、奥本大学、卡内基梅隆大学、赖斯大学、威斯康星-麦迪逊大学和温斯顿-塞勒姆州立大学合作，提议扩展多个NSF BPC联盟的工作（A4RC，ARTSI，这些项目利用不同的战略扩大非洲人的参与，美国计算机科学虽然这些先前的联盟和示范项目在执行战略方面有所不同，但它们都非常强调辅导。因此，新合并的计算科学非洲裔美国人指导研究所（iAAMCS，发音为“i am cs”）将作为一个国家资源，并强调指导作为增加非洲裔美国人参与计算的主要战略，特别是在博士学位。水平和超越。iAAMCS的总体目标是增加获得计算科学博士学位的非洲裔美国人的数量，从而增加学术界，政府和行业中非洲裔美国人研究人员的数量。为了实现这一目标，iAAMCS联盟将（1）增加非洲裔美国人博士的数量。毕业生谁进入劳动力与研究重点;（2）保留和推进非洲裔美国人博士学位。学生，教师和研究人员在计算;和（3）发展未来的非洲裔美国领导人与计算专业知识的学术界，政府和行业。iAAMCS将由一个著名的咨询委员会进行评估，该委员会由计算专家组成，并由新的研究管道评估中心（CERP）进行外部同行评估。

The University of Florida, in collaboration with Clemson University, 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).