BPC-AE: Scaling and Sustaining Gender Diversity in Postsecondary Computing using NCWIT's Systemic Change Approach

BPC-AE：使用 NCWIT 的系统变革方法扩大和维持高等教育计算中的性别多样性

• 批准号: 2216561
• 负责人: Lucinda Sanders
• 金额: $ 359.98万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2027-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2216561&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BPC; AE; Scaling; Sustaining; Gender

The University of Colorado extends the The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Alliance. The systematic social and structural disadvantages to women in computing, at all identity intersections and levels of pathways to careers, is deeply concerning both from the viewpoint of equity and the nation's need for a highly qualified scientific workforce and improved innovation. While the nation has seen some improvement over the past two decades, underrepresentation of women continues, both in terms of numbers and of influence. NCWIT seeks to ensure that women have nontrivial influence in computing because technical products are better, people are better served, and computing research is relevant to more people. Women’s low participation in computing is rooted in inequitable societal structures and everyday social interaction, not in women. NCWIT change approaches interrupt the reproduction of these inequities at the level of social systems, altering policy, everyday practices and decision making, beliefs, and norms to sustain change. Building inclusive cultures in computing departments will increase diversity of thought and advance the computing discipline, a field integral to all other STEM fields. NCWIT unites over 1500 member organizations across the computing ecosystem to ensure the perspectives and contributions of those who identify as women—at the intersections of gender identity, race, ethnicity, class, age, sexual orientation, and ability status—are meaningfully represented at all levels of computing. NCWIT guides its members—including postsecondary institutions, a lynchpin in the ecosystem—in understanding, implementing, and institutionalizing research-based practices and strategies that produce systemic change. NCWIT helps organizations realize systemic change by providing resources, tools, guidance, and direct support to change leaders. In this project, NCWIT proposes to accelerate department-level culture change at all levels of postsecondary computing through several inter-connected activities: 1) Growth, diversification, and engagement of its Academic Alliance so more postsecondary computing programs have the knowledge, awareness, and motivation to increase participation of women of different backgrounds and educational levels in colleges and universities; 2) Further development and implementation of NCWIT’s unique, research-based systemic change (Tech Inclusion Journey) platform to enable more postsecondary undergraduate programs to efficiently self-assess and develop srategic solutions to increase representation of women in their programs; 3) creation and deployment of Learning Circles peer cohorts and a supporting community of practice model to guide academic change leaders in building inclusive cultures; 4) Extension of NCWIT’s freely available resource collection to include more actionable resources on inclusive culture construction, systemic change, and intersectionality; and integration of NCWIT’s talent pipeline programs and the resources of external BPC and other partner initiatives; and 5) Advancement of public awareness and support for increasing women's participation in computing through existing and new communication channels.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.

科罗拉多大学扩大了国家妇女与信息技术中心 (NCWIT) 联盟的范围，从公平的角度来看，女性在计算机领域的系统性社会和结构性劣势在所有身份交叉点和职业道路层面上都令人深感担忧。尽管国家在过去二十年中取得了一些进步，但女性在数量和影响力方面的代表性仍然不足。在计算中因为技术产品更好，人们得到更好的服务，计算机研究与更多人相关。女性对计算机的参与度较低，其根源在于不公平的社会结构和日常社会互动，而不是女性的改变方法中断了这些不平等的再现。改变政策、日常实践和决策、信念和规范以维持变革，在计算部门建立包容性文化将增加思想的多样性并推进计算学科，这是所有其他 STEM 领域不可或缺的领域。超过整个计算生态系统有 1500 个成员组织，以确保在性别认同、种族、族裔、阶级、年龄、性取向和能力状态的交叉点上，女性的观点和贡献在计算的各个层面得到有意义的体现NCWIT 指导其成员（包括作为生态系统关键的高等教育机构）理解、实施和制度化基于研究的实践和策略，以产生系统性变革，NCWIT 通过提供资源、工具、指导和直接支持帮助组织实现系统性变革。在该项目中，NCWIT 提议通过几项相互关联的活动加速高等教育计算各个级别的院系文化变革：1) 学术联盟的发展、多元化和参与，以便更多的高等教育计算项目拥有相关知识。提高不同背景和教育水平的女性在学院和大学的参与度、意识和动力；2) 进一步开发和实施 NCWIT 独特的、基于研究的系统变革（科技包容之旅）平台，以支持更多高等教育本科课程有效地进行自我评估并制定战略解决方案，以增加女性在其项目中的代表性； 3) 创建和部署学习圈同行群体和支持性实践社区模型，以指导学术变革领导者建设包容性文化；免费提供资源收集，包括更多关于包容性文化建设、系统变革和交叉性的资源；以及 NCWIT 人才管道计划和外部 BPC 及其他合作伙伴计划资源的整合；以及 5) 提高公众意识和能力；支持通过现有和新的沟通渠道增加女性对计算机的参与。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。