December 03, 2007
Additional Deadline Added for Discipline Specific Workshop proposals!
Deadline: January 15, 2008
The Computing Research Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) and the Coalition to Diversify Computing (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 sent in by January 15 deadline will be notified by Feb 1. For this year only, another deadline will be available March 15, but will not fund Summer '08 workshops.
In subsequent years, there will only be two deadlines: January 15 and June 15.