EAGER: Building Tech Talent and Connecting Student Pipelines to Entrepreneurial Ecosystems at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

这项为期两年的计划赠款使公立和赠地大学协会、联合黑人学院基金和瑟古德·马歇尔学院基金能够发展一个全国性的历史黑人学院和大学，重点是扩大计算机和信息科学的参与。该项目为实现以下主要目标制定了一个框架：1)增加传统黑人学院和大学在计算机和信息科学及相关领域授予的学士学位的数量和产量；2)提高传统黑人学院和大学的科学、技术、工程和数学毕业生为技术劳动力和技术就业创造的准备程度；3)增加非裔美国人计算机和信息科学博士学生的数量（本科学位），以及4)提高传统黑人学院和大学的机构能力，包括研究和开发，以实现上述目标。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This 2-year planning grant enables the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, United Negro College Fund, and Thurgood Marshall College Fund to develop a national Historically Black Colleges and Universities focused effort to broaden participation in computer and information science. This project develops a framework for achieving the following key objectives: 1) Increase the number and yield of bachelor's degrees Historically Black Colleges and Universities award in computer and information science and related fields, 2) Increase the readiness of Historically Black Colleges and Universities' science, technology, engineering and math graduates for tech workforce and tech job creation, 3) Increase the number of African American computer and information science doctoral students at all U.S. doctoral programs from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (undergrad degree), and 4) Increase the institutional capacity - including research and development - of Historically Black Colleges and Universities to achieve the above stated goals.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.