The CAHSI INCLUDES Alliance: Realizing Collective Impact
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Virtual On line
- Publication Date
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June 22, 2020
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June 22, 2020
- End Date
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June 26, 2021
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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 7
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Computing and Information Technology
- Tagged Topic
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Diversity
- Page Count
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6
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--35294
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https://peer.asee.org/35294
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463
Paper Authors
Elsa Q. Villa University of Texas at El Paso
Elsa Q. Villa, Ph.D., is a research assistant professor at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in the College of Education, and is Director of the Center for Education Research and Policy Studies (CERPS). Dr. Villa received her doctoral degree in curriculum and instruction from New Mexico State University; she received a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and a Master of Arts in Education from UTEP. She has led and co-led numerous grants from corporate foundations and state and federal agencies, and has numerous publications in refereed journals and edited books. Her research interests include communities of practice, gender, transformative learning, and identity.
Ann C. Gates University of Texas at El Paso
Dr. Ann Quiroz Gates is an AT&T Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department and past Associate VP of Research and Sponsored Projects at the University of Texas at El Paso. Gates directs the NSF-funded CyberShARE Center of Excellence that has a mission to advance interdisciplinary education and research. She served on the Naval Research Advisory Committee (2016-2018) and currently serves on the NSF CISE Advisory Committee on Education and Broadening Participation. Gates leads the Computing Alliance for Hispanic-Serving Institutions, one of five National INCLUDES Alliances. She received the 2015 Great Minds in STEM's Education award, the CRA’s 2015 A. Nico Habermann Award, the 2010 Anita Borg Institute Social Impact Award, and the 2009 Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying Computing. She was named to Hispanic Business magazine’s 100 Influential Hispanics in 2006 for her work on the Affinity Research Group model.
Sanga Kim University of Texas at El Paso
Dr.Kim is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Instittuions (CAHSI) at the University of Texas at El Paso. She earned her doctorate in Education from the University of Iowa. Her research uses sociological perspectives to study educational equity and racial diversity in higher education, focusing on the experiences and persistence of women and underrepresented students. More specifically, she studies the impact of educational practices and co-curricular learning experiences on college student outcomes in STEM fields using quantitative methods. Her current research focuses on the higher education experiences and trajectories of Latinx and first-generation college students in STEM fields. She has published and co-authored several articles published in the following journals: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Educational Policy, Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, and Teachers College Record.
David S. Knight University of Washington
David S. Knight is an assistant professor at the University of Washington. His research examines educator labor markets, school finance, and cost-effectiveness analysis. He received his PhD in urban education policy and MA in economics from the University of Southern California and bachelor’s degrees in economics and anthropology from the University of Kansas.
Abstract
To address the low number of degrees in computing to meet the demand for computing professionals, the Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI) was selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2018 to serve as the lead partner and backbone of a national INCLUDES alliance. The Inclusion Across the Nation of Communities of Learners (INCLUDES) initiative is one of NSF’s Ten Big Ideas with the goal of broadening participation in STEM fields by creating networked relationships among organizations and across sectors, using a collaborative approach with stakeholders who share a common agenda. The CAHSI National Alliance is using the collective impact model to accelerate change in broadening participation, particularly of Latinx, in computing fields. This model has five components: (1) common agenda, a process to reach the vision of CAHSI INCLUDES; (2) backbone to organize and manage the Alliance; (3) reinforcing activities, serving to build partnerships and set strategic actions; (4) continuous communication among the Alliance members (institutions and other partners); and (5) common measures to track progress across institutions, regional partner institutions, and across the Alliance. This paper will provide brief details on how the CAHSI Alliance is organized to meet the five components of collective impact with detailed emphasis on common measures and its associated dashboard for data-decision making of CAHSI INCLUDES institutions for tracking progress.
Villa, E. Q., & Gates, A. C., & Kim, S., & Knight, D. S. (2020, June), The CAHSI INCLUDES Alliance: Realizing Collective Impact Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--35294
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