By ABI Staff, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology

Deadline: January 15, 2010

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.

Before preparing your proposal, please refer to examples of past workshops in this series, as well as other information here: http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/cdc/

Prospective workshop organizers are requested to submit a roughly 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:

Full contact information for the organizers – The best proposals will include teams of organizers comprising both women and members of underrepresented racial/ethnic groups.

Research focus area of the workshop

Proposed dates for the workshop

Proposed workshop agenda 1-1.5 days are suggested. Location at a university, or co-location before/after a conference have both been successful models.

Estimated number of workshop participants These proposals are intended to be targeted at undergraduates, and/or graduate students, and/or very junior post-PhD researchers.

Advertising plans, especially plans for reaching out to underrepresented groups

Past experiences with mentoring of or organizing events for women or underrepresented minorities

Proposed budget and requested support from CRA-W and CDC

Fundraising plans (Industry, ACM SIG support, …) The best proposals will show high leverage of CRA-W/CDC funds with donations from other sources.

Sustainability plan: How might this workshop be offered again in the future with reduced or no support from CRA-W/CDC?

Proposals sent in by the January 15 deadline will be notified by February 15. The next deadline for proposals will be June 15, 2010.