BPC Alliance Extension grant to add the Colorado Coalition for Gender and IT to the BPC-A: Widening the Research Pipeline grant. The areas of focus are: 1) Organize, develop, and evaluate CCGIT for growth and sustainability 2) Est  ... more

BPC Alliance Extension grant to add the Colorado Coalition for Gender and IT to the BPC-A: Widening the Research Pipeline grant. The areas of focus are: 1) Organize, develop, and evaluate CCGIT for growth and sustainability 2) Establish a proactive clearinghouse of community resources, best practices, and information 3) Lead innovation and conceptualize programs 4) Advocate on behalf of women and girls on IT pipeline policy issues 5) Act as a liaison with NCWIT to import/export effective practices and collaborate with partners nationwide. The goals are: The Computing Research Association's Committee on the status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) and the ACM/CRA/IEEE-cs Coalition to diversify Computing (CDC) are working together in a Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) alliance to increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in computing research. The focus of this project is to address all aspects of the NSF Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) research pipeline from undergraduate students to senior faculty.   less

The Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) and the ACM/CRA/IEEE-CS Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC) are working together in a BPC alliance to increase the participatio  ... more

The Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) and the ACM/CRA/IEEE-CS Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC) are working together in a BPC alliance to increase the participation of women and minorities in computing research. The focus of this project is to address all aspects of the NSF CISE research pipeline from undergraduate students to senior faculty.   less

The Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE) is a statewide alliance with a mission to address underrepresentation in Massachusetts' innovation economy. Partnering with 15 public higher education institut  ... more

The Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE) is a statewide alliance with a mission to address underrepresentation in Massachusetts' innovation economy. Partnering with 15 public higher education institutions organized in four geographic regions, CAITE focuses on community colleges that serve as gateways to careers and further higher education for underserved populations. CAITE's programs include outreach and pathways activities in collaboration with initiatives focused on IT education and STEM pipeline issues. CAITE works closely with many of the CISE BPC Alliances and with the regional LSAMP and EGEP alliances.   less

The Broader Participation in Computing-Alliance (BPC-A) is a project designed to impact Hispanic American institutions in Puerto Rico and the African Americans in the US Virgin Islands, including women and persons with disabilitie  ... more

The Broader Participation in Computing-Alliance (BPC-A) is a project designed to impact Hispanic American institutions in Puerto Rico and the African Americans in the US Virgin Islands, including women and persons with disabilities. It reaches the economically disadvantaged communities in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands through consortia with municipalities, community-based organizations, and professional organizations in computing. A network of institutions, mentors, administrators in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the US mainland, and abroad will be available for the implementation of Alliance activities. The BPC-Alliance motivates and increases the recruitment of students who choose computing disciplines as their major in college. It impacts pre-college students, science and mathematics teachers, undergraduates, graduates, and economically-disadvantaged community members.   less

Our project is a planning project where we are looking to develop a proposal for a formal BPC Alliance. In particular, the three lead universities are investigating ways to perform the following tasks in the context of larger gran  ... more

Our project is a planning project where we are looking to develop a proposal for a formal BPC Alliance. In particular, the three lead universities are investigating ways to perform the following tasks in the context of larger grant initiative: 1) Assemble a functioning consortium for the advancement of CS education in Hawaii, 2) Develop a pipeline approach for student development in CS that can be implemented across LC institutions, and 3) Development of feedback and evaluation strategy for a larger demonstration project. While the change from the BPC program to the CE program has necessitated some change in our strategy for planning this grant, we would still like to demonstrate that the approach of consortiums for student success is feasible in Hawaii.   less

NSF-funded Alliance and Alliance Extension Projects are broad coalitions of academic institutions of higher learning, secondary (and possibly middle) schools, government, industry, professional societies, and other not-for-profit  ... more

NSF-funded Alliance and Alliance Extension Projects are broad coalitions of academic institutions of higher learning, secondary (and possibly middle) schools, government, industry, professional societies, and other not-for-profit organizations that design and carry out comprehensive programs addressing underrepresentation in the computing disciplines. They have a large regional or national scope. Typically, Alliances operate across multiple stages of the academic pipeline and address multiple targeted groups. Together, Alliance participants (1) develop and implement interventions that support students and early career faculty, (2) create sustainable changes in culture and practices at the institutional, departmental, and organizational levels, (3) serve as models and contribute to repositories for effective practices to broaden participation, and (4) leverage the work of existing BP efforts and other Alliances. Competitive projects will have significant impact both in the quality of opportunities afforded to participants and in the number of participants potentially served. Successful Alliances are eligible to compete for additional funding: an Alliance Extension increases the duration of the Alliance award as well as its scope, introducing additional targeted student groups, partners, and/or projects. The list below in Related Resources provides a list of funded BPC Alliance projects with websites.   less

The Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) program aims to significantly increase the number of U.S. citizens and permanent residents receiving post secondary degrees in the computing disciplines, with an emphasis on students  ... more

The Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) program aims to significantly increase the number of U.S. citizens and permanent residents receiving post secondary degrees in the computing disciplines, with an emphasis on students from communities with longstanding underrepresentation in computing: women, persons with disabilities, and minorities. Included minorities are African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. The BPC program seeks to engage the computing community in developing and implementing innovative methods to improve recruitment and retention of these students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Because the lack of role models in the professoriate can be a barrier to participation, the BPC program also aims to develop effective strategies for encouraging individuals to pursue academic careers in computing and become these role models. There are three components to the BPC program: Alliances. Broad Alliances of institutions and organizations will design and carry out comprehensive programs that address underrepresentation in the computing disciplines. Alliances will join academic institutions of higher learning with secondary (and possibly middle) schools, government, industry, professional societies, and other not-for-profit organizations. In most cases, Alliances will involve multiple academic institutions of higher learning. Together, the participants will (1) develop and implement interventions that support students, (2) create sustainable changes in culture and practices at the institutional, departmental, and organizational levels, and (3) serve as models and repositories for effective practices to broaden participation. The emphasis will be on activities that have significant impact both in the quality of opportunities afforded to students and in the number of students potentially served. While the focus is on implementations, an Alliance may include complementary research that informs the design of its activities. The leveraging of existing efforts both across and within the underrpresented communities is strongly encouraged. Alliance Extensions. Successful BPC Alliances can propose additional funding to significantly expand the impact of their work. The new funding can overlap with the final year of the Alliance project and can extend it for up to two years. Extensions must increase not just the duration of the Alliance award but also its scope, introducing additional targeted student groups, partners, and/or projects. Demonstration Projects. Demonstration Projects (DPs) are smaller in scope and narrower in focus than Alliance projects. Typically DPs will be pilots of innovative programs that, once fully developed, could be incorporated into the activities of an Alliance. Projects might, for example, be proposed by a single institution or might focus on a specific underrepresented community, a specific point in the academic pipeline, or on a specific impediment to full participation in computing. As in the case of Alliances, complementary, well-defined research aimed at informing the development of the project can be included.   less

The A4RC is a 20-institution alliance headquartered at North Carolina A&T that is dedicated to building an environment that promotes pathways from undergraduate computing programs in HBCUs to graduate degrees in computing. Our vis  ... more

The A4RC is a 20-institution alliance headquartered at North Carolina A&T that is dedicated to building an environment that promotes pathways from undergraduate computing programs in HBCUs to graduate degrees in computing. Our vision is to truly be "A Force for Change" as departmental climates/cultures are created that provide intentional advising programs which support this vision. Across A4RC, ground-breaking research is being conducted with an emphasis on undergraduate research to prepare students for research in the following areas: 1) Advanced Biometrics, 2) Bioinformatics, 3) Cloud Computing, 4) Cyber Security, 5) High-Performance Computing, 6) Human-Centered Computing, and 7) Visual Analytics. A4RC has amassed invaluable knowledge and experience with respect to what it takes to build effective HBCU/R1 collaborations, develop productive HBCU/R1 research teams, and prepare undergraduate and master's students for research at the Ph.D. level.   less

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in collaboration with Loyola College, proposes to engage diverse stakeholders to develop an Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group in Broadening Participation (ACM  ... more

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in collaboration with Loyola College, proposes to engage diverse stakeholders to develop an Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group in Broadening Participation (ACM SIGBP) charter, submit a proposal to the ACM to establish a SIGBP, and support startup efforts of the SIGBP community. The SIG will provide a well-recognized, well-established, international community to support and strengthen the diverse array of initiatives for Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC). Broadening participation in computing requires multiple levels of inter-disciplinary collaboration among researchers, practitioners, educators and policy-makers from academia, industry, government, K-12 schools, and the non-profit sector within a variety of interests, including computing, psychology, sociology, ethnic and gender studies, education, and human resources. A plethora of BPC organizations, programs and initiatives exist. Although BPC communities are starting to coalesce, as with the NSF BPC alliances, a majority of initiatives are relatively isolated. The BPC research literature is scattered among journals and conferences within computing education, general education, and the social sciences. What is needed is an overarching BPC community to support and highlight the many existing BPC initiatives, and to drive the national BPC agenda by speaking for the community with one voice. This will provide opportunities for students seeking to participate, practices for practitioners to adopt, and a community for researchers seeking to collaborate. The ACM is the flagship international professional and scientific organization for computing. The ACM Special Interest Groups (SIGs) represent the major areas of computing. Each SIG forms a community that includes conferences, publications, and regional and global activities intended to advance knowledge and foster collaboration within computing areas. We seek to leverage the ACM SIG community structure to support an international BPC Community. The goal of the proposed ACM SIGBP Project is to strengthen, scale, and sustain efforts to broaden participation in computing by establishing an ACM SIGBP. Project outcomes include 1) establishing an ACM SIGBP, 2) increasing participation in existing BPC activities and organizations, 3) increasing awareness among computing students of BPC opportunities, and 4) increasing collaboration among existing BPC efforts nationally and internationally.   less