Post by CrimsonPhantom on Sept 10, 2018 15:00:45 GMT -7
New Mexico State University is among a handful of universities across the country to receive grants that represent the next major step for the National Science Foundation INCLUDES program – the development of a national network of alliances to enhance U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by broadening participation in those disciplines.
The alliance of which NMSU is part, called CAHSI INCLUDES, will create hubs throughout the country to expand the NSF’s Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) program, with a specific focus on promoting computer science education at primarily Hispanic-Serving Institutions. NMSU is the lead institution for the southwest region of the CAHSI INCLUDES alliance, which includes Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
“The INCLUDES program started with small pilots for two years,” explained Enrico Pontelli, NMSU lead for the CAHSI INCLUDES alliance. “They wanted to plant a seed to create alliances so people would come together and start aligning existing initiatives and interests. We had one of these pilots in the first year and that’s what we did. We concentrated on the southwest and how to bring more institutions on board and we reached out to community colleges with great success. For example, here locally DACC, NMSU-Alamogordo, and EPCC came on board and it was great.”
The Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI), which includes NMSU, University of Texas at El Paso and more than 40 other institutions, will serve as the backbone for this new alliance. The CAHSI organization has been active for more than 10 years, investigating and promoting evidence-based practices to ensure the success of students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions in the areas of computing and computational sciences.
The entire award is $9.9 million and will allow the CAHSI INCLUDES Alliance to be developed. The award will be split among the four regions that compose the CAHSI INCLUDES alliance – California, Southwest, Southeast, and Northeast. The CAHSI INCLUDES alliance is one of five alliances that NSF will fund through the INCLUDES program, and these alliances will coordinate their activities through a Coordination Hub, which will function as a backbone organization for the entire NSF INCLUDES national network.
The alliance of which NMSU is part, called CAHSI INCLUDES, will create hubs throughout the country to expand the NSF’s Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) program, with a specific focus on promoting computer science education at primarily Hispanic-Serving Institutions. NMSU is the lead institution for the southwest region of the CAHSI INCLUDES alliance, which includes Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
“The INCLUDES program started with small pilots for two years,” explained Enrico Pontelli, NMSU lead for the CAHSI INCLUDES alliance. “They wanted to plant a seed to create alliances so people would come together and start aligning existing initiatives and interests. We had one of these pilots in the first year and that’s what we did. We concentrated on the southwest and how to bring more institutions on board and we reached out to community colleges with great success. For example, here locally DACC, NMSU-Alamogordo, and EPCC came on board and it was great.”
The Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI), which includes NMSU, University of Texas at El Paso and more than 40 other institutions, will serve as the backbone for this new alliance. The CAHSI organization has been active for more than 10 years, investigating and promoting evidence-based practices to ensure the success of students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions in the areas of computing and computational sciences.
The entire award is $9.9 million and will allow the CAHSI INCLUDES Alliance to be developed. The award will be split among the four regions that compose the CAHSI INCLUDES alliance – California, Southwest, Southeast, and Northeast. The CAHSI INCLUDES alliance is one of five alliances that NSF will fund through the INCLUDES program, and these alliances will coordinate their activities through a Coordination Hub, which will function as a backbone organization for the entire NSF INCLUDES national network.
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