Project Grant 1748316

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations provides $300,000 to the University of California, Los Angeles under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023. The award will support collecting enrollment and degree attainment data in undergraduate computing programs disaggregated by gender and race/ethnicity for three to five institutions with...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to deploy and assess innovations in computer science education in prison settings. This 2-year grant, titled "BPC-DP: Improving Computing Education for Incarcerated College Students," aims to discover and invent best practices for teaching college-level computing courses to incarcerated individuals, a population...

This $299,716 National Science Foundation project grant will support the development and evaluation of socially responsible computing curriculum and pedagogy at six California State University campuses. Administered through CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, the grant aims to transform early computing experiences for over 2,000 undergraduate students who identify as Hispanic/Latino. Each campus loses Latinx students at higher rates than non-Latinx students in the first two years of...

The National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) awarded a $299,912 Project Grant to Chico State Enterprises, a Minority Institution and Hispanic Serving Institution, to fund the "Embedding Representation, Relevance, and Equity in a Personalized System of Instruction" project. This 2-year collaboration between California State University, Chico and the University of California, Santa Barbara will develop instructional videos featuring...

The Santa Clara County Office of Education was awarded a $924,479 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings. The grant will support the "Culturally-Responsive Teaching for Supporting Positive Computer Science Identities among Latinx Girls" project from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. Under this award, the Santa Clara County Office of Education will implement culturally responsive teaching methods to support...

Humboldt State University Sponsored Programs Foundation was awarded a $220,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to conduct collaborative research exploring the impact of inclusive and equitable active learning approaches in computing courses delivered through online synchronous learning environments across multiple institutions. The research aims to improve student learning outcomes and retention rates in computing,...

The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded $203,828 to CAL State La University Auxiliary Services Inc. under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to support the Collaborative Research: BPC-A project from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The funding will support an alliance of six California State University campuses—Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CSU Dominguez Hills, CSU Fullerton, CSU Los Angeles, Cal Poly Pomona,...

This $370,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to implement and study evidence-based teaching practices that promote equitable collaboration in undergraduate data science courses at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and California State University, Monterey Bay. The project will investigate students' experiences when collaborating on pair programming tasks in the data science classroom, with a focus...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $293,517 Project Grant to the Dominguez Hills Foundation California State University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund the BPC Alliance: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Early Computing project, which aims to promote Latinx student retention in computing fields via community engagement. Specifically, the project will transform introductory computing curriculum at six...

An alliance of six California State University campuses was awarded a $205,306 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to deliver socially responsible computing curriculum and pedagogy. The alliance will transform early computing courses at the six campuses—Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CSU Dominguez Hills, CSU Fullerton, CSU Los Angeles, Cal Poly Pomona, and San Francisco State University—to better integrate communal goals and...