Workforce Preparation through Computing Scholarship (We-Prep-CS) Program

汉普顿大学计算机科学系正在创建通过计算奖学金（We-Prep-CS）计划的劳动力准备。它将支持至多20名本科生和至多18名研究生。每个学生每年将根据他们的经济需求获得高达10,000美元的奖励。We-Prep-CS将成为汉普顿大学继续努力的一部分，以加强计算机科学的本科教育和研究，并增加追求计算机高级学位和职业的女性和非裔美国人的数量。这些额外的技术工人将有助于提高国家的经济竞争力。汉普顿大学计算机科学系为计算机科学劳动力的多样性做出了贡献，并与许多行业，学术和政府合作伙伴密切合作。建议的项目增加了系里全面的学生支持服务，并支持研究生院为确保学生成功申请计算机科学硕士学位所做的努力。奖学金将使计算机专业的本科生和研究生能够全日制学习，而项目活动将通过提供研究和实习机会、社会群体建设活动、职业咨询以及研究生入学和就业准备，在学术和社会上吸引学生。该项目将展示一个创造性的、可持续的模式，在计算机专业招募、吸引、留住和毕业历史上代表性不足的学生，可以指导其他机构努力实现STEM劳动力的多元化。通过拟议项目开展的学生支持活动将是可持续的和可扩展的，并且一个综合评估计划将确定哪些活动应该扩大，以满足未来所有HU计算机科学专业的需求。该项目将有助于学术理解STEM学生对经济援助和需求的看法。将通过出版物、会议和讲习班向其他机构提供准备、招聘、保留和参与战略方面的最佳做法。这将有助于他们努力扩大参与，并促进学生从计算机专业的本科到研究生学位课程和/或进入国家需要的技术领域。该项目的数据将通过广泛的评估过程收集，并在学术和劳动力社区、组织和会议与会者之间传播。

The Department of Computer Science at Hampton University is creating the Workforce Preparation through Computing Scholarship (We-Prep-CS) Program. It will support up to 20 undergraduate students and up to 18 graduate students. Each student will be awarded up to $10,000 per year based on their financial need. We-Prep-CS will be part of Hampton University's continuing efforts to enhance undergraduate education and research in computer science as well as to increase the number of women and African-Americans who pursue advanced degrees and careers in computing. These additional technical workers will help increase the nation's economic competitiveness. The Department of Computer Science at Hampton University has a legacy of contributing to the diversity of the computer science workforce and works closely with a number of industry, academic, and government partners. The proposed project adds to the comprehensive student support services within the department and supports efforts by the Graduate College to ensure the success of students seeking master's degrees in computer science. Scholarships will enable undergraduate and graduate students in computing programs to study full-time, while project activities will engage students academically and socially by providing research and internship opportunities, social cohort building activities, career counseling, and graduate school and workforce preparation. The project will demonstrate a creative, sustainable model for recruiting, engaging, retaining, and graduating historically underrepresented students in computing programs that can guide other institutions in efforts to diversify the STEM workforce. Student support activities developed through the proposed project will be sustainable and scalable, and an integrated evaluation plan will identify which activities should be expanded to meet the needs of all HU Computer Science majors in the future. The project will contribute to the scholarly understanding of STEM student perceptions of financial aid and need. Best practices in preparation, recruitment, retention and engagement strategies will be made available to other institutions via publications, conferences, and workshops. This will assist them with their efforts to broaden participation and to facilitate the progression of students through the pipeline from undergraduate through graduate degree programs in computing majors and/or into technical areas of national need. Data from this project will be collected through extensive evaluation processes and disseminated among the academic and workforce communities, organizations, and conference attendees.