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Susanne H ambrusch Department of Computer Science. Department Head Increase diversity of faculty, students, and staff Division Director in CISE at NSF T he role of diversity in the broader impacts merit review criteria P articipation of underrepresented groups in NSF’s
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Susanne HambruschDepartment of Computer Science • Department Head • Increase diversity of faculty, students, and staff • Division Director in CISE at NSF • The role of diversity in the broader impacts merit review criteria • Participation of underrepresented groups in NSF’s • CRA-W (Comm. on the Status of Women in Computing Research) • Developed and organized mentoring programs for undergraduate and graduate students as well as junior and mid-career faculty
At NSF, diversity is part of the broader impacts criteria Two merit review criteria • The intellectual merit criterion encompasses the potential to advance knowledge. • The broader impacts criterion encompasses the potential to benefit society and contribute to the achievement of specific, desired societal outcomes. In computing related fields, industry can be a good source for funding diversity activities!
examples of broader impact activities • Impact the research will have on society. • Integrating research activities into teaching or training; creating mentoring and broadening participation opportunities. • Activities in teaching, training, and learning can target a variety of groups: • undergraduate students, K-12 students, teachers • colleagues, university administrators, educational councils • legislators, the press, professionals, the general public • Focusing any of these activities on members of an underrepresented group will broaden participation and improve diversity of a field.
GOOD Things to do • Make use of existing efforts in your department, your college, and professional organizations. • Make sure proposed diversity activities are credible, career-level appropriate, and have the needed support and budget. • Know what has shown to be effective and what has been assessed. • Argue how efforts could be sustained beyond the duration of the project. • Describe how to evaluate impact and effectiveness. • Proposing new activities: leave it to awards/programs with a significant BI expectation.
WHAt to avoid • Proposing activities that are unrealistic, ignore what exists, or are not appropriate for the scale of the proposal. • Claims like • Double the number of members of an underrepresented group • Organize workshops with an ambitious goal • Visit high schools and tell the teachers what they should do • Increasing diversity is straightforward • Not knowing the reality and the known challenges • Proposing activities one is not comfortable doing
Computing Related diversity focused organizations • NCWIT - http://www.ncwit.org/ • CRA-W - http://cra-w.org/ • ACM-W - http://women.acm.org/ • Tapia Conferences - http://tapiaconference.org/ • Alliance for Access to Computing Careers - http://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing/ • CDC - http://www.cdc-computing.org/about/ • Grace Hopper Celebration - http://gracehopper.org/