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Upcoming BPC Community Forum: Exploring BPCnet’s New Features and Resources

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Join us on Friday, January 10, 2025, at noon ET for the next BPCnet.org BPC Community Forum, hosted by the CRA’s Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP). This session will focus on the recent redesign of BPCnet.org and highlight its updated features. It will also provide an opportunity for the participants to provide feedback on current and future content on BPCnet.org. 

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Participants will learn how to navigate BPCnet.org and get an overview of the wide range of resources on the website, including tools designed to support the creation and refinement of BPC plans (e.g., guides, templates), research and data related resources, and searchable databases. The forum will also provide an opportunity for attendees to share their experiences with the platform and offer feedback on its functionality.

Registration is required to attend this Zoom event. After registering with your name and email address, you will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link. 

The live transcript will be turned on for this BPC Community Forum. If you have any accessibility needs, please reach out to bpcinfo@cra.org.

 

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Upcoming BPC Forum on Identifying and Removing Institutional Barriers to BPC: The CIC’s 10 recommended systemic sustainable interventions and their BPC impact.

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Join us for the next BPCnet.org BPC Community Forum on Friday, November 1st, at noon EST for a discussion led by Carla Brodley and Catherine Gill of the Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) on effective ways to overcome institutional barriers found in undergraduate computing programs. 

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The Center for Inclusive Computing partners with universities to identify and remove the—often unintentional—barriers that prevent students from discovering and thriving in computing education. To remove these barriers, CIC Partner Schools implement evidence-based, systemic, and sustainable interventions that don’t require ongoing funding. The CIC works in partnership with 100+ universities across the country to ensure that students of any intersectional demographic identity can discover, thrive, and persist in computing. 

In this talk, the CIC will explore the most common institutional barriers found in undergraduate computing programs and the concrete actions that can be taken to remove these barriers such as handling the distribution of prior computing experience in the intro sequence, rethinking the placement of math requirements, creating interdisciplinary computing BS/BA degrees, ensuring that multi-section courses use common assessment and more. The CIC will present results for the 21 partner schools who have had 2+ years to implement changes. 

We look forward to sharing this information with the BPC community and hope to receive feedback on what systemic interventions might be missing from this list. 

Registration is required to attend this Zoom event. After registering with your name and email address, you will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link. 

The live transcript will be turned on for this BPC Community Forum. If you have any accessibility needs, please reach out to bpcinfo@cra.org.

 

This post is brought to you by the CRA’s Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP). CERP provides social science research and comparative evaluation for the computing community. Subscribe to the CERP newsletter bulletin by clicking here. Volunteer for Data Buddies by signing up here.

Applications Are Open for the 2023 Departmental BPC Plan Workshop: March 19 Deadline

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Applications are now open for the 2023 Departmental Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Plan Workshop. This year’s workshop will be held in Atlanta, GA from May 30th– June 1st in collaboration with Morehouse College. In this workshop, departments will have the opportunity to learn more about BPC efforts from the National Science Foundation (NSF), how to create a Departmental BPC Plan, and how to best support faculty PIs submitting NSF proposals that require a BPC Plan. Consultants from BPCnet.org will be available to answer questions and provide real-time feedback about your department’s BPC Plan during the workshop.

 

Please check out the workshop website for more information about the workshop.

 

Eligibility

This workshop is open to all computing department faculty and administrators developing Departmental BPC Plans. We highly recommend (but do not require) that each department participates in the workshop in teams of 2-3. For each department, we ask that at least one participant represent the leadership (e.g., department heads, deans, etc.) at the workshop. We also encourage non-academic staff, research institute personnel, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) professionals, and leaders from other broadening participation-related organizations to attend. Registrants do not need to have prior experience developing Departmental BPC Plans. Each department may send up to three representatives to attend.

 

Funding

This workshop is funded by the NSF. Attendees will be reimbursed for their travel expenses in accordance with CRA’s Travel Policy. 

 

Application

Each department only needs to submit one application. The person who completes the application on behalf of the department will be asked to provide information on the other representatives (e.g., name, email). Click here to complete and submit your application by midnight Sunday, March 19th.

 

If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please reach out to bpcinfo@cra.org.

 

New updates to the BPCnet.org Statistics & Data Hub

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Recently, IPEDS released its 2020-2021 postsecondary degree completion data and CCD released its 2021-2022 K-12 enrollment data. BPCnet.org staff have updated the Statistics & Data Hub applications to include these new data releases. BPCnet.org staff are pleased to announce version 1.3.5, which includes K-12 enrollment data from 2013-2022 by race/ethnicity and sex, as well as postsecondary computing and engineering degree completions from 2011-2021 by race/ethnicity and gender. You can find the applications at the BPCnet.org Statistics & Data Hub: bpcnet.org/statistics.

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CERP to support new NSF INCLUDES Alliance focused on increasing equity and broadening participation in STEM

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On August 3, 2021, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced five new NSF INCLUDES Alliances, which will each address a critical broadening participation challenge in STEM at scale.

The CRA Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP) will support one of the new INCLUDES Alliances as a consultant representing BPCnet.org, a clearinghouse for the community to learn about and engage with ongoing projects to address underrepresentation in Computing. Through this collaboration, CERP will work to expand the BPCnet.org Statistics and Data Hub, an online tool that currently provides computing-related data at the K-12 and postsecondary levels.

CERP is looking forward to supporting this new INCLUDES Alliance:

All other new Alliances are listed below:

 

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