Broadening Participation in Computing BPC

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Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)

• Jan Cuny
• Harriet Taylor
• Caroline Wardle
• Access Grid Presentation, April 20th

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Why are we here?

• Discuss the program and its aims
• Provide the opportunity to meet, discuss
  experiences plans in order to develop synergies
  between efforts
• Provide a forum for discussing issues in
  broadening participation

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Outline

• BPC Goals Focus
• BPC
• Philosophy
• What it isnt
• What it is
• Alliances
• Demonstration Projects
• Why is were here again?

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Is there a crisis brewing for the CISE related
disciplines?
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Occupational Distribution of Projected SE Job
Openings 2002-2012
John Sargent, US Department of Commerce, 2004
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Annual Degrees and Job Openings in Broad SE
Fields

John Sargent, US Department of Commerce, 2004
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Trends in Degree Production
NSF Data, http//www.cra.org
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Taulbee, http//www.cra.org
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Taulbee, http//www.cra.org
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Taulbee, http//www.cra.org
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High School CS AP Tests2001-2004
AP tests overall 33
CS A tests -9 CS AB tests
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? CS was the ONLY subject to show a decline!
? CS has the largest gender gap of any test!
ETS Data, 2004
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Perhaps not a crisis, but an opportune time to
act.
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BPC GOAL

• To have all of our diverse population fully
  participating in computer science education and
  research.

Initial Focus Groups that have been
traditionally underrepresented in CSE.
We believe that targeted interventions designed
to increase participation in these groups will
ultimately benefit all. Freeman, Cuny

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Whos not participating the most?

• Women
• Minorities
• Persons with Disabilities

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Awarded Degrees in CS
Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities
in SE, 2004 (2001 data)
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4195 Tenure Track Faculty at 177 CS Departments

• 497 Women
• 63 Hispanic
• 32 African American
• 6 Native Americans
• 2003 Taulbee Data

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Demographics 18 - 24 year olds
US Census Bureau
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Why does underrepresentation matter?

• A workforce/economic issue
• An equity/fairness issue
• A creativity issue for the future of technology

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Thinking outside the box?
What if a broader more representative
population contributed to the innovative
process? Might we push the boundaries of science
while increasing the likelihood of creating
solutions to real problems? Might we become
more innovative, more effective and more
profitable?
Anita Borg
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• The CS community must play a role in
  addressing these issues. Freeman, Cuny

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Outline

• BPC Goals Focus
• BPC
• Philosophy
• What is isnt
• What it is
• Alliances
• Demonstration Projects
• Why is were here again?

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K-12
Faculty
Graduate Programs
Four Year Programs
Two Year Programs
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Common Ground

• Work with K-12 teachers
• Define CS / improve CS image
• Develop bridge programs for under-prepared
  students
• Provide research experiences for undergrads
• Train faculty mentors (for diversity)
• Establish MSI R1 relationships
• Share infrastructure
• Repository of effective/promising practices
• Resources for evaluation / assessment
• Dissemination of effective practices for BP

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Common Ground (cont)

• Outreach to K-12
• Undergrad education overhaul
• Grad education overhaul
• Sustainable funding

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• Minority-Minority Tech Transfer
• .. the underrepresented groups had more in
  common than many believe a program could be
  developed that would help efforts across many
  communities rather than requiring a separate,
  special program for each community
• Minority-Majority Tech Transfer
• all solutions proposed to help the
  underrepresented groups would also help
  majority groups

Dave Patterson, CACM, January 2005
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Outline

• BPC Goals Focus
• BPC
• Philosophy
• What it isnt
• What it is
• Alliances
• Demonstration Projects
• Why is were here again?

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What its not

• A way for you to improve your institution in
  isolation
• A way to buy more equipment or infrastructure
• A scholarship program
• A fellowship program
• A replacement for
• EOT-PACI
• MII
• ITWF
• REUs

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Outline

• BPC Goals Focus
• BPC
• Philosophy
• What it isnt
• What it is
• Alliances
• Demonstration Projects
• Why is were here again?

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BPC Program

• Create broad alliances across and within targeted
  groups to address issues across wide regions of
  the space.
• Support smaller projects to allow the development
  of novel programs.
• Offer incentives for mainstream researchers to
  become involved in the effort.

ALLIANCES
DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS
SUPPLEMENTS
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Alliances

• Broad alliances of institutions and organizations
  (200K-1M per year)
• Implement interventions that support students
• Create sustainable institutional changes
• Serve as models and repositories for effective
  practices

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Why Alliances?

• Leveraging of efforts
• Build on success of others
• Less duplication
• Target for other funding
• Larger impact
• Sustainability

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Examples of Alliance Activities

• Outreach programs
• Immersive bridge programs
• Enriched research and internship programs
• Systemic mentoring and mentor training programs
• Student networks and peer support programs

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• Conference attendance with mechanisms to enrich
  experiences
• Innovative career counseling and career placement
• Faculty and student exchanges for collaborative
  research and education
• Support for faculty as they enter the
  professoriate
• Research and assessment activities that inform
  Alliance activities

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How do we get there?
Build on what we have already
Start small grow
Collaborate build on what were creating
Involve other stakeholders
Build a community come back next year bring
your friends
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Demonstration Projects

• Develop innovative projects and strategies
  that could be effectively adopted by Alliances
  (200K)
• Smaller scope and focus
• Pilots which could be scaled for larger impact

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Whats Success?
What can we hope to see in 2-3 years?

• Not degrees

• Thriving communities / organizations
• focused on promoting diversity

• Active cohorts

• Newly involved players

• Stronger knowledge base of best practices

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Whats Success?

• But 2-3 years wont solve the problem, what about
  sustainability?
• Make it so good, NSF wouldnt think of stopping
• Involve larger community, especially mainstream
  researchers, industry, foundations
• Leverage other efforts

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Other NSF programs

• Site REUs
• LS-AMP
• AGEP
• ADVANCE
• Curriculum Development
• CI-TEAM

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Outline

• BPC Goals Focus
• BPC
• Philosophy
• What is isnt
• What it is
• Alliances
• Demonstration Projects
• Why is were here again?

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Goals for today

• Discuss the program and its aims
• Provide the opportunity to meet, discuss
  experiences plans in order to develop synergies
  between efforts
• Provide a forum for discussing issues in
  broadening participation

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• it is simply unjust for a profession to
• exclude whether by sins of commission or
• omission a significant proportion of the
• population on the basis of gender.

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For every girl who dreams of becoming a scientist
or engineer, there is a moral obligation on our
part to do everything we can to even the playing
field so her chances rest on her (dare I say
innate?) abilities and her determination, just
as it does for her male counterparts.
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It is not sufficient to shrug our shoulders,
invoke all the historical reasons for the
situation, call upon the leaky pipeline, or
bemoan the difficulty of changing culture.
Shirley Tilghman, President
of Princeton, 2005
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Lets make this more than just another 3 year
federal program