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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.

 

Workshop Opportunity: Expanding The Agenda For Inclusive Policy, Practices, And Research Regarding Gender And Computer Science

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The following information was first published by Sagefox Consulting Group.

Are you a researcher currently doing or planning to do work by, with, or for Trans and Nonbinary learners in computing? We’d love to invite you to a virtual workshop where we will collectively develop a research agenda that includes transgender and nonbinary (TNB) learners in Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) efforts for inclusive and intersectional policy, practices, and research.

The objectives of this workshop are to:

  • Define near and long-term agenda items for intersectional research about the inclusion of TNB learners in computing for the Computing Education Research (CER) community
  • Advance our collective understanding of and ability to implement principles of intersectionality in future work
  • Highlight existing work, researchers, and thought leaders on the inclusion of TNB learners in BPC/RPP initiatives
  • Create a community where this work is valued for those doing, receiving, and being represented by this work
  • Provide participants with the opportunity to conceptualize how to expand and refine the inclusion of TNB learners as part of their current and future BPC/RPP initiatives

Pre-workshop Panel Timeline:

  • Two 90-min pre-workshop panels on Thursday, November 3rd from 5-6:30 PM EST and late November/early December.
  • Three three-hour sessions will occur on TUE, WED, & THU afternoon (EST) the week of Jan 9, 2023, OR Jan 16, 2023. Each day will last for a duration of 3 hours. All workshop activities will be conducted virtually. This workshop will require 12 hours of synchronous time commitment plus some additional asynchronous time for reading or reviewing data. We are not able to offer stipends or other financial incentives to workshop participants.

Please visit the workshop webpage to learn more and to fill out the participant interest form by September 21, 2022. Note that we are currently in the process of working with panelists and other speakers to firm up the dates for our two pre-workshop panels. This information will continue to be updated on the webpage.

You can contact Stacey Sexton, ssexton@sagefoxgroup.com with any questions about the workshop schedule, content, or required commitment.