The Community Engaged Scholars in Computer Science scholarship program at the University of San Francisco combines four-year scholarships for low-income students majoring in Computer Science with additional with a suite of activities designed to promote the engagement in the departmental, professional, and local communities. These activities include an immersive head start program, cohort enrollment in lower division CS major courses, and alumni mentoring. Scholars also participate in specialized coursework designed to support their academic and professional success, including a first-year course introducing students to campus and community resources, a junior career preparation course, and a CS focused service learning course.
Team
Below you can find our core team. We also work with many other amazing staff and faculty throughout the university to make this program possible, as well as our awesome alumni that sign up as mentors!
Principal Investigators
Key Contributors
Publications
See below for the papers, posters, and reports published as part of this project.
Xornam Apedoe, Wen Li, Sami Rollins, Sophie Engle, Alark Joshi, Matthew Malensek, and Chris Brooks, "Exploring Computer Science Identity Development Among Undergraduate Computer Science Majors" (Poster Abstract), in Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting (ISLS) on June 2023.
Alark Joshi, Sophie Engle, Matthew Malensek, Chris Brooks, Xornam Apedoe, and Star Moore, "Acknowledging Inequities in Tech through a Community-Engaged Learning Course" (Poster Abstract), in Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) on March 2023.
Alark Joshi, Gian Bruno, Xornam Apedoe, Sophie Engle, Sami Rollins, and Matthew Malensek, "Engendering Community to Computer Science Freshmen through an Early Arrival Program" (Poster Abstract), in NSF Grantees Session at the ASEE Virtual Annual Conference on June 2020.
Sami Rollins, Alark Joshi, Amruth N. Kumar, Stan Kurkovsky, and Tracy Camp, "Best Practices for Designing and Implementing NSF S-STEM Scholarship Projects" (Birds-of-a-Feather Session Abstract), in Proceedings of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2021), Virtual Event on March 2021.
Sami Rollins, Alark Joshi, Xornam Apedoe, Sophie Engle, Matthew Malensek, and Gian Bruno, "Understanding Professional Identity Development Among Computer Science Students" (Work-in-Progress), in Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session at the ASEE Virtual Annual Conference on July 2021.
Amruth N. Kumar, Maureen Doyle, Victoria Hong, Alark Joshi, Stan Kurkovsky, and Sami Rollins, "Helping Academically Talented STEM Students with Financial Need Succeed" (Research to Practice Full Paper), in IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) on December 2021.
Funding
This project is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1833718. It is part of the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) Program. The program addresses the need for “a high quality STEM workforce in STEM disciplines” and the “increased success of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need.”
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Contact
Please email ces@cs.usfca.edu if you have questions or comments regarding this program.