Deadline to Apply: Extended to April 26

This workshop is FULL. Applications received after April 26 will be placed on a waitlist. 
 
When: This virtual, three-day discovery workshop will be held on May 16, 17, and 18, 2022, from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm and is funded by the National Science Foundation (#2136382). 

Goal: The workshop convenes 30 participants tasked with interacting to explore and discover key topics and questions that will inform future research and collaboration around how to better practice culturally relevant data science education at the undergraduate level.

Participants: We invite faculty, staff, and researchers and industry partners with expertise in data science, the African diaspora, social/racial justice, and undergraduate STEM education.  

Product: Each attendee will be assigned to a breakout group and will contribute to the development of shared documents. Attendees will be tasked with "homework" before, during, and after the workshop that will extend the collaboration and provide content to develop during the sessions. This includes breakout group discussion notes, presentations, and the identification of data sets related to the African diaspora.

Support: Each participant will receive a $500 stipend. Support is available for family care. 
 
Contact: For more information, please contact Dr. Talitha Washington at twashington@aucenter.edu.
More About the Workshop
Workshop Themes: 
  • Teaching data validity and fairness versus bias, including incorporating reliable data sets that are relevant to African diasporic identity
  • Brainstorming promising practices and exploring benefits for incorporating culturally relevant data science in undergraduate education
  • Identifying and probing data science topics that are highly relevant to Black America
  • Exploring strategies for how to have difficult, "brave" conversations (e.g., discussing race and racism) in the data science classroom
  • Identifying needs and opportunities for teaching culturally relevant data science to undergraduates (e.g., pedagogical approaches, software tools, platforms, faculty development/training, institutional barriers to / resources for curricular innovation)
Organizing Team:
  • Co-Chair, Talitha Washington, Director of the Atlanta University Center Data Science Initiative; Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Clark Atlanta University
  • Co-Chair, Jerry Vocy, Brown Simmons Professor of Science and Director of the Innovation Lab at Spelman College
  • LaTanya Brown-Robertson, Professor of Economics at Bowie State University
  • Moses Garuba, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Associate Director of the Data Science and Cyber Security Center, and Professor of Computer Science at Howard University
  • Sajid Hussain, Associate Vice Provost for Innovation & Information Technology and the Discipline Coordinator of Data Science at Fisk University
  • Torina Lewis, Associate Executive Director for Meetings and Professional Services at the American Mathematical Society (AMS)
  • Eric Van Dusen, Interim Director and Lecturer at the Data Science Program at the University of California, Berkeley
More details can be found here.
Application

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* 1. What is your first name?

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* 2. What is your last name?

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* 3. What is your email address?

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* 4. What is your telephone number?

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* 5. What is your institution?

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* 6. In what department or unit do you work?

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* 7. Please select your status:

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* 8. Select your faculty status:

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* 9. What is your work category?

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* 10. What is interesting to you about enhancing data science education by leveraging data sets from the African diaspora?

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* 11. Briefly describe your research and/or scholarly interests in data science, African diaspora, racial/social justice, and/or undergraduate STEM education. 

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* 12. Are you currently active in designing and delivering data science education with a social/racial justice component? What is the extent of undergraduate data science academic programs at your institution? If not, how do you envision such academic programs?  

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* 13. What topics would you like to learn more about during this workshop?

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* 14. What do you hope to gain from this workshop?

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* 15. Please upload a 2-page CV highlighting experiences relevant to this workshop.

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* 16. How did you hear about this workshop?

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* 17. Please identify your race.

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* 18. Please identify your ethnicity.

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* 19. Do you currently describe yourself as male, female or transgender?

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* 20. What is your role in the workshop?

Acknowledgment of Support and Disclaimer: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2136382. 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.

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