August 16, 2007
Call for Proposals - Discipline Specific Workshops
Upcoming Deadline: September 1, 2007!
CRA-W and CDC are jointly soliciting proposals for discipline-specific mentoring workshops within computing sub-fields. The goal of these discipline-specific mentoring workshops is to increase participation of members of underrepresented groups within a specific research area by providing career mentoring advice and discipline specific overviews of past accomplishments and future research directions. Specifically, the workshop should focus on helping young researchers at the graduate or post-graduate level become interested in and knowledgeable about the research and research paradigms of a specific discipline.
Examples of past workshops in this series, as well as other information can be found at: http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/cdc/
Prospective workshop organizers are requested to submit a 2-page proposal at least 6-9 months prior to the proposed workshop date. The format for workshop submissions is left unspecified, but we recommend that organizers include at least the following information:
Name, email, and affiliation for the organizers - the team of organizers should include members of underrepresented groups.
Research focus area of the workshop
Proposed dates for the workshop
Proposed workshop agenda
Estimated number of workshop participants
Advertising plans, especially plans for reaching out to underrepresented groups
Proposed budget and requested support from CRA-W and CDC
Other fundraising plans (Industry, ACM SIG support, etc.)
Proposals will be reviewed two times a year. Please submit proposals by March 1 or September 1 for consideration. The results of the review process will be made available by the end of March (for the March 1
deadline) or mid-September (for the September 1 deadline).