Empowering informatics Diversity Enhanced Workforce

增强信息多样性增强劳动力（EiDEW）是由印第安纳州大学（IU）信息学与计算学院（SoIC）、印第安纳波利斯的印第安纳州普渡大学（IUPUI）和印第安纳波利斯的常春藤科技社区学院（Ivy Tech）提出的一个多机构项目。该项目旨在提高信息技术专业人员的质量和数量，特别是经济上处于不利地位、学术上有才华、代表性不足的少数群体。EiDEW Scholar计划不仅将招募，提供奖学金支持，并教育80名副学士和60名学士学位学生，还将创建一个丰富的连贯干预框架，以确保学生坚持STEM。典型的干预计划包括指导，实习和其他类型的支持，从大一到学位完成。 临近毕业，EiDEW将与微软等雇主合作，以促进学生在STEM劳动力中的职业安置。学生招聘将通过利用以前建立的与高中的联系来促进。在以前的NSF资助的研究中，IUPUI在住宅学习社区模式和基于队列的指导方面取得了成功。这些将在EiDEW项目中加以调整和使用。信息学课程是基于主动学习体系，微软和思科在夏季提供各种专业认证培训。该项目将有可能产生系统的知识，关于联合课程活动的价值与提供奖学金支持有才华，但经济困难的大学生。Ivy Tech和IUPUI之间的联盟安排将为S-STEM背景下的两年制到四年制大学过渡提供全国性的模式。

Empowering informatics Diversity Enhanced Workforce (EiDEW) is a multi-institutional project proposed by the Indiana University (IU) School of Informatics and Computing (SoIC) at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) and Ivy Tech Community College (Ivy Tech) in Indianapolis. The project seeks to increase the quality and quantity of information technology (IT) professionals - especially economically disadvantaged, academically talented underrepresented minorities - who graduate from college. The EiDEW Scholar program will not only recruit, provide scholarship support to, and educate 80 associate and 60 baccalaureate students, but also create a rich framework of coherent interventions to ensure student persistence in STEM. Typical interventions planned include mentoring, internships and other types of support from freshman year through degree completion. Close to graduation, EiDEW will partner with employers such as Microsoft to facilitate student career placement in the STEM workforce. Student recruitment will be facilitated by leveraging previously established connections with high schools. In previous NSF-funded research, IUPUI had success with the residential learning community model and cohort-based mentoring. These will be adapted and used in the EiDEW project. The informatics curriculum is based on active learning pedagogies with both Microsoft and CISCO providing various professional certification training during the summer. The project will potentially generate systematic knowledge regarding the value of combining co-curricular activities with provision of scholarship support for talented but financially needy college students. The consortium arrangement between Ivy Tech and IUPUI will provide a national model for two-year to four-year college transition in the S-STEM context.