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Broadening Participation of Latinx in Computing Graduate Studies

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Minneapolis, MN

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August 23, 2022

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June 26, 2022

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June 29, 2022

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ERM: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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7

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10.18260/1-2--41044

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Elsa Villa University of Texas at El Paso

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Ann Gates University of Texas at El Paso

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Patricia Morreale Kean University

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Patricia Morreale is Professor and Chair of the School of Computer Science and Technology in the Hennings College of Science, Mathematics, and Technology at Kean University.

Her research focuses on multimedia and network systems for secure service delivery, mobile computing, and human computer interaction. Her work on network design developed techniques for error detection and secure processing, which have been patented and commercialized. She has developed mobile applications for emergency and disaster response, as well as for end-user persuasion and behavior change. She also conducts research on broadening participation in computer science, focused on faculty development and undergraduate research engagement.

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Mohsen Beheshti

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Nayda Santiago University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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Nayda G. Santiago is professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) where she teaches the Capstone Course in Computer Engineering. She received a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus in 1989, a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1990, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Computer Engineering from Michigan State University in 2003. She currently leads the Southeast Region of the Computing Alliance for Hispanic Serving Institutions (CAHSI). She has directed the Caribbean Celebration of Women in Computing conferences and in 2019 the first Explore CRC Puerto Rico conference to increase the participation of women in Computing. Dr. Santiago is an academic alliance member of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), lifetime member of SACNAS, senior member of the IEEE, a member of the ACM, and senior member of the Latinas in Computing (LiC) organization. Dr. Santiago has been awarded 2017 CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award, 2008 Henaac Educator Award, 2008 Distinguished Computer Engineer of the CIAPR, and the UPRM Distinguished Alumni award.

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Abstract

The Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI), a NSF national INCLUDES alliance, is focused on advancing students in attaining credentials in computing, and this Work in Progress (WIP) paper focuses on its latest effort in advancing undergraduate computer science majors into graduate school to address the low numbers of Hispanics, or Latinx, attaining graduate degrees in computer science. Using a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) framework, CAHSI expands adoption of evidence-based, multi-institutional graduate support structures that lead to Latinx students’ success in their graduate studies. The strategic student-success efforts address well-documented barriers, e.g., feeling of isolation, lack of support structures, deficit thinking, and negative departmental climate. With new partnerships to include nine Carnegie-classified R1 HSIs, CAHSI is poised to expand its involvement with industry, non-profits, and national labs to unify the Alliance in accelerating change by bridging and preparing undergraduates who succeed in graduate programs. The WIP paper also describes an embedded research component in this new effort to incorporate higher education scholarship on organizational culture and leadership; inter-institutional partnerships; and HSIs’ distinctive institutional contexts. With a dearth of research in exploring the experiences of Latinx graduate students at HSI graduate programs, the social science research aims to define a model of “servingness“ in graduate computing education grounded in organizational contexts of HSIs that are transferable and adaptable to all institutions invested in broadening participation in computing. The research uses a qualitative multiple-case study approach to examine the phenomenon of organizational behavior and development of the national alliance partnerships. This approach is appropriate for exploring contextual conditions that promote Latinx graduate student success and alliance partnerships that foster success in computing.

Keywords: computing education, DEI, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Hispanic servingness

Villa, E., & Gates, A., & Morreale, P., & Beheshti, M., & Santiago, N. (2022, August), Broadening Participation of Latinx in Computing Graduate Studies Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41044

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