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Discipline-specific Mentoring Workshops

The Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRAW) in an alliance with the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC), a joint organization of the ACM, CRA, and IEEE CS, is seeking to increase the participation of women and minorities in computing research.

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.

Because this program operates with funding from the US National Science Foundation, the primary proposer must be from a US university and the workshop location should reachable as "domestic travel" from the US as defined by NSF.

Examples of past workshops in this series, as well as other information can be found below.

Prospective workshop organizers are requested to submit a roughly 2-page proposal at least 6-9 months prior to the proposed workshop date. Workshop proposals should be emailed as a single pdf file. The file should clearly identify the Name and Email address of the contact author. In addition, please include the following information:

  • Full contact information 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.
  • Past experiences with mentoring of women or underrepresented minorities.
  • Proposed budget and requested support from CRA-W and CDC.
  • Fundraising plans (Industry, ACM SIG support, ...)
  • Sustainability plan: How might this workshop be offered again in the future with reduced or no support from CRA-W/CDC?

Submit proposals electronically to Carla Romero, cromero[at]cra[dot]org

The next two deadlines are January 15, 2010 and June 15, 2010. Funding notifications will be sent roughly within one month of the deadline.

For information regarding workshops funded by this alliance, visit:

Information for Prospective Workshop Organizers