This $642,659 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) is funding a mixed methods study on the structures, policies, and practices that shape the degree trajectories of community college transfer students in computer science. The overarching goal is to produce new knowledge that will guide efforts to transform university systems to better support the success of this high-achieving and diverse student population. The study will engage...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will provide $996,598 over six years to the University of Denver to support scholarships and academic programming for 19 high-achieving, low-income undergraduate students pursuing bachelor's degrees in computer science. The project aims to address financial, academic, and social barriers to student success by offering four-year scholarships, cohort-based courses with faculty mentors, peer...
This $493,944 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to implement a comprehensive, multi-faceted program to increase student retention and completion rates in STEM academic pathways at two-year colleges, with a focus on effective strategies for diverse and non-traditional student populations. The project has three key objectives: 1) increase successful course and program completion, 2) create a sense of belonging in academic and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $350,000 to the University of Delaware to develop strategies and interventions to increase the participation of middle-school girls, particularly those from underrepresented or marginalized groups, in computing career paths. The project will integrate frameworks such as personal and group identity formation, embodied virtual agents, human-computer interaction, and motivation to reverse...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $2,850,758 Cooperative Agreement to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) under the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) to extend the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Alliance. This project will expand NCWIT's efforts to diversify all computing disciplines, with a focus on rapidly advancing research...
The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded a $797,040 Project Grant to Impact Allies Inc. under the STEM Education federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) to conduct research examining variances in external grant funding and outcomes at two-year colleges. Through a mixed methods research study combining algorithm-derived meta-data, institutional data, surveys, and interviews, the awardee will analyze factors differentiating colleges with varying levels of external...
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...
This five-year, $1.94 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support the University of California Santa Cruz's collaboration with eight California community colleges to establish servingness in computing. The team will study how to move beyond enrolling racially diverse students in computing to better serving them through transfer pathways, graduation, career placement outcomes. Specifically, the...
This $130,178 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the development and testing of the Equity Departmental Action Team (EDAT) model of racial equity-focused departmental change in STEM fields at a minority-serving institution, the University of Colorado Denver. The key products and services to be delivered through this 5-year project include: 1) the development of the new EDAT model, which integrates...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to advance the understanding of departmental change efforts that can transform undergraduate STEM education. The $136,024 award to National Louis University, in collaboration with the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado State University, and Western Michigan University, will conduct a two-pronged project: (1) a landscape study on methods for supporting STEM departmental...
This Project Grant award of $943,061 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to address gender equity and diversity issues in community college computing programs. The University of Colorado Boulder, in partnership with the National Center for Women & IT and the County College of Morris, will adapt existing research-based resources, develop new resources, and facilitate professional development for faculty at nine community colleges. The goal is to support systemic changes that increase the recruitment and retention of women and underrepresented groups in community college computing programs. The project includes a comprehensive mixed-methods evaluation conducted by the University of Washington's Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity. The evaluation will assess the relevance and effectiveness of the adapted resources, the impact of the faculty learning circles, and overall project outcomes. Sub-awards to the County College of Morris and the University of Washington support the resource adaptation and evaluation components of the project.