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Experiences in Broadening Participation
in Computing
www.StarsAlliance.org Jerlando Jackson (Evaluator)
Tiffany Barnes (Co-PI)
The STARS Alliance:
STARS:Students & Technology in Academia, Research and Service
IndustryPartners
Community Partners
Minority Institutions
ProfessionalOrganizations
K-12Partners
CommunityColleges
STUDENTS
Women’sInstitutions
Research Universities
The STARS Alliance
NC State
Meredith College
Georgia Tech
USF Lakeland
Landmark College(Vermont)
UNC Charlotte
Spelman College
Auburn
Florida State
Florida A & M
Five Regional Partnerships
The STARS Alliance
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STARS Alliance Mission
• Broaden participation in computing for ALL students, particularly for underrepresented groups
• Target populations– middle school through graduate students
• How?– STARS Leadership: Instill a lifelong sense of responsibility to use
computing to improve quality of life
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STARS Alliance Alliance Projects
• Student Leadership Corps (SLC)• Includes leadership for Students with Disabilities
• Pair Programming• Teaching Math to the Visually Impaired• African-American Researchers in Computer
Science (AARCS)
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STARS Alliance SLC
• Student Leadership Corps (SLC)– Students will be introduced to mentoring, leadership
skills, research experiences, preparation for graduate school, professional development, and civic engagement. This will be achieved through: SLC monthly seminar series, electronic journals, SLC assignments, and peer mentoring.
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STARS Alliance Pair Programming
• Pair learning: – Driver/Navigator
• Pair programming benefits:– Comparable or better student performance & retention– Teachers prefer it (less work, higher quality results)
• Benefits outweigh the costs . . . – Some dysfunctional pair management– Need for pair evaluation (PairEval tool helps)
• Workshop: January 10-12, 2007 in Tampa– All are invited! Check out starsalliance.org for info
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STARS Alliance TMVI
• Teaching Math to the Visually Impaired– This demonstration project is an effort to teach math to
visually impaired students. The mathgenie is a program developed with the goal of providing a personal math reader to blind students trying to learn math in K-12.
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STARS Alliance Activities
• African-American Researchers in Computing Science– This is a demonstration project dedicated to increasing the
participation of African American students attending HBCUs in research related positions. The three components of this project include: targeted presentations, future faculty mentoring, and an annual mini-conference.
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STARS AllianceYear 1
Accomplishments
• Steering Committee:– First planning meeting held in January– Regular teleconferences for planning & update
• STARS Celebration– Successful Annual Conference held in August– Approx. 120 students, 25 faculty
• Student Leadership Corps– 2 universities implemented in Summer 2006– All implemented in Fall 2006
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STARS Alliance Accomplishments
• Web portal– StarsAlliance.org
• Evaluation– Instrument development in progress
• Alliance Organizational evaluation instruments• SLC pre-survey complete, post survey almost
– Training of graduate SLC students in interview techniques– Pre-Interviews of some SLC students
• Coordination with UNC Charlotte REU Site• Faculty recruiting at UNC Charlotte!• Workshop on Pair Programming & Mentoring planned for
January 10-12 in Tampa, FL
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STARS AllianceStudent Leadership
Corps• Hypothesis: students who participate in
outreach, service, or research using their computing skills are more likely to be retained.
• They also assist in recruiting younger students.• SLC is a framework that unifies “effective
practices” – civic engagement, service learning, mentoring,
professional development and research experiences.
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STARS Alliance SLC Components
• STARS Celebration• Alliance-wide summer workshop (Atlanta 2006, Charlotte
2007, Florida 2008)• Includes showcase of past SLC accomplishments.
Sponsored by TIAA CREF in 2007.
• SLC monthly seminar series• During Fall/Spring semesters at STARS and via webcast
• SLC leadership projects• Outreach, research, service, internship
• Peer mentoring• Have a mentor; serve as a mentor
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STARS Alliance STARS Celebration
• STARS Leadership– Past projects– “How-tos” & planning sessions for new projects
• Technical track– Exposure to different fields/research in computing
• Professional Development– Diversity– Communication skills– Life/work balance
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STARS Alliance Celebration 2006
• Address the elephant in the room– Diversity: race, ethnicity, differing abilities– Embrace the differences– Build community and move ahead
• Focus on diversity– Made some uncomfortable– But comfortable enough to give feedback– Uncovered stereotypes– Facilitated discussion
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STARS Alliance Celebration 2006
• Students enthusiastic about workshop– Empowered to take leadership– Technical sessions– Learning about other programs– Seeing diverse people in computing
• Faculty enthusiastic– Designed by committee with many agendas!– Still successful
• Next year:– More technical tracks, separate student/faculty tracks– Like a Grace Hopper Conference for BPC (i.e. not just women)
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STARS Alliance Evaluation
• Comprehensive and cohesive evaluation of multiple programs• Across multiple institutions• Across multi-year participation • Will allow insights for replication efforts• Will bring insights about effects for:
– Alliance structure– University Faculty– Students– K-12 Counselors, kids, parents, teachers
• Three-Tiered Outcomes Model:– Organizational Outcomes (e.g., Alliance)– Program Level Outcomes (e.g., Demonstration Projects)– Individual Level Outcomes (e.g., Students)
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STARS Alliance Alliance Outcomes
• Increased student enrollment in computing and IT programs• Increased student awareness about computing and IT• Increased student readiness to enter computing and IT
graduate school and workforce• Increased participation of undergraduates entering computing
and/or IT graduate school or workforce• Increased graduate rates of computing and IT students• Increased persistence and declaration of students majoring in
computing or IT• Increased college adjustment and GPA for students in
computing or IT
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STARS Alliance Alliance Outcomes
• Sustained Alliance Efficacy
• Institutionalize Alliance Partnerships
• Increased national awareness of effective practices for Alliance development
• Serve as a model and repository for BPC
The STARS AllianceStudents & Technology in Academics, Research, and Service
STARS Alliance
Preliminary results
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STARS Alliance Alliance infrastructure
• Time is major issue for both faculty & students• Need tools to facilitate:
– Collaboration– Communication– Management– Timelines & deadlines– Tracking– Reporting– Sharing resources
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STARS Alliance
Cross-institutional collaboration
• Faculty see this as very successful
• Students excited to meet students from other places
• Recruiting across Alliance!
• Looking forward to building more
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STARS AllianceSynergy with existing
programs
• Essential to success
• Examples:– Charlotte REU & CRA-DMP Summer 2006– Mentoring on NCSU campus– Intel Opportunities at Georgia Tech
• Share resources and minimize work
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STARS AllianceRecruiting students
• A challenge at first: What is STARS?
• Now: More students want to join!
• Creating ways for non-funded students to join– STARS Alliance club– Course credit, other avenues
• Creating ways to recognize participation
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STARS AllianceReplication
of best practices
• A Challenge!• How do you make professors do something
new?• You must show how it benefits them• Need a cookbook approach
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STARS AllianceEffects of Alliance on
faculty careers
• Writing circles• Mentoring within the Alliance
– happening informally
• Collaborations– Landmark College, REU Site proposal, Gaming
programs at UNCC, Auburn
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STARS Alliance Sustaining changes
• Student STARS Alliance club– Other methods for credit for participation?– Certificate, transcript credit, course credit
• Faculty recruiting at UNC Charlotte: – 2 new black faculty, 2 new women
• Existence of Alliance is raising awareness:– Deans and departments are using STARS Leaders
for recruiting and involving them in dept activities and policy-making, marketing
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STARS AllianceHow can I become a
star?
• Join our advisory boards• Provide mentors through Industry affiliates• Provide speakers for seminars or STARS
Celebration • Sponsorship• Replicate our models
– Replicate the evaluation as well
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STARS AllianceCompeting points of
view…• SLC
– different implementations, same evaluation– everyone differing in approach to SLC
• Interventions: extracurricular v curricular?• Impact on faculty careers
– To do it or not to do it?– Told not to do it, but we do it anyway– Social relevance to engaging students but why not for faculty?– PUBLISH IT, tie it to metrics of success for faculty careers
• Different definitions of computing/IT• Support, institutionalization, sustaining…• Infrastructure
STARSAlliance.orgStudents & Technology in Academia, Research, and Service
PI: Teresa Dahlberg [email protected]: Tiffany Barnes [email protected]
Lead Evaluator: Jerlando Jackson