Collaborative Research: BPC-A: LEAP Alliance: Diversifying Future Leadership in the Professoriate

只有5.3%的博士授予大学的教师来自以下代表性不足的社区：黑人或非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔或美洲印第安人/阿拉斯加原住民。多样化的计算教授是提供优秀的榜样，塑造部门的计划和政策，并把不同的观点纳入研究项目和计划的关键。LEAP联盟旨在通过有意将四个大学群体聚集在一起，增加计算教授领导的多样性，每个大学都有共同的优势和共同的议程。这项工作的基础上，从第一批的经验教训，包括机构生产的计算教师的比例很大，并增加了三个额外的队列，以进一步加强管道的计算教授。LEAP联盟的目标是解决扩大参与的挑战，增加未来的领导在计算教授在研究型大学的多样性，作为一种方式，增加多样性的多样性，外地关键的国家领导角色，例如在影响计算领域的国家委员会任职，通常来自研究型大学，使这些机构成为关键的焦点。该联盟此前曾在11所研究型大学的初始队列中试行这一努力，这些大学被发现在前55所研究机构中产生了超过50%的教师。他们将继续将类似的机构聚集在第二个队列中，以及专注于分别有很大比例的计算博士和计算本科生毕业的机构的队列。最终，该联盟的目标是增加来自计算机教师顶级生产者的机构的博士毕业生的多样性，增加在博士毕业生已经具有良好多样性的机构的学术生涯的曝光，并增加不同本科生在机构中的保留率，这些机构将学生送入研究生院并继续担任教师。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命和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。

Only 5.3% of the faculty at PhD-granting universities are from the following underrepresented communities: Black or African-American, Hispanic, or American Indian/Alaska Native. Diversifying the computing professoriate is critical for providing excellent role models, shaping departmental programs and policies, and bringing diverse perspectives into research projects and programs. The LEAP Alliance aims to increase the diversity of leadership in the computing professoriate by intentionally bringing together four cohorts of universities, each with common strengths and a common agenda. This work builds upon the lessons learned from a first cohort comprised of institutions producing a large percentage of computing faculty and adds three additional cohorts to further strengthen the pipeline to the computing professoriate.The goal of the LEAP Alliance is to address the broadening participation challenge of increasing the diversity of the future leadership in the computing professoriate at research universities as a way to increase diversity across the field. Key national leadership roles, such as serving on national committees that impact the field of computing, often come from research universities, making these institutions a critical point of focus. The Alliance has previously piloted this effort in an initial cohort of 11 research universities who were found to produce over 50% of the faculty at the top 55 research institutions. They will continue to bring together similar institutions in a second cohort, as well as cohorts that focus on institutions graduate a large percentage of computing PhDs and computing undergraduates, respectively. Ultimately, the Alliance aims to increase the diversity of PhD graduates from the institutions that are the top producers of computing faculty, increase the exposure of academic careers at the institutions that already have good diversity in their PhD graduates, and increase the retention of diverse undergraduate students at the institutions who send students to graduate school that go on to be faculty.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.