BPC: Empowering Leadership Alliance
Cynthia Lanius, Independent Consultant,clanius@bellsouth.net
The CDC is cooperating as a partner with the National Science Foundation’s new three-year Broadening Participation in Computing program, the Empowering Leadership: Computing Scholars of Tomorrow Alliance. The Empowering Leadership Alliance is building a community comprised of human, institutional, and programmatic resources to help ensure the success of minority scholars in computing disciplines at majority research institutions. These students, scattered sparsely across the country, face challenges of isolation. Their network of formal and informal resources, support, and encouragement, so critical to all students, is significantly smaller, and less robust, than more established networks of student support. The EL Alliance will provide students with summer research opportunities; mentoring; in-person meetings with national leaders; an online speaker series and meetings to encourage.
