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

合作研究：BPC-A：LEAP 联盟：教授未来领导力的多元化

• 批准号: 2137408
• 负责人: Denice Hood
• 金额: $ 54.12万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2137408&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; BPC; LEAP; Alliance

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.

在授予博​​士学位的大学中，只有 5.3% 的教职人员来自以下代表性不足的社区：黑人或非裔美国人、西班牙裔或美洲印第安人/阿拉斯加原住民。计算机教授队伍的多元化对于提供优秀的榜样、制定部门计划和政策以及将不同的观点引入研究项目和计划至关重要。 LEAP 联盟旨在通过有意将四所具有共同优势和共同议程的大学聚集在一起，增加计算机教授领导力的多样性。这项工作建立在第一批由培养大量计算机教师的机构组成的经验教训的基础上，并增加了三个额外的队列，以进一步加强计算机教授的管道。LEAP 联盟的目标是解决广泛的参与挑战增加研究型大学计算机教授未来领导力的多样性，以此作为增加整个领域多样性的一种方式。关键的国家领导角色，例如在影响计算领域的国家委员会中任职，通常来自研究型大学，这使得这些机构成为关注的关键点。该联盟此前已在首批 11 所研究型大学中试点了这项工作，结果发现这些大学的教职人员占排名前 55 名研究机构的 50% 以上。他们将继续将类似的机构聚集到第二个队列中，以及专注于分别培养大量计算机博士和计算机本科生的机构的队列。最终，该联盟的目标是增加计算机教师顶尖院校的博士毕业生的多样性，增加博士毕业生已经具有良好多样性的院校的学术职业曝光率，并增加多样化本科生的保留率该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。