The BPCnet Resource Portal is an initiative by the Computing Research Association with support from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). CISE is committed to broadening participation in computing (BPC). The following was reposted from the BPCnet Bulletin.
BPCnet.org will be hosting its last working session for this year on Thursday, November 18th, 2021, from 3:00 PM- 5:00 PM ET. The session will assist participants with updating their existing Departmental BPC Plan or creating a new one to meet the updated National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) guidelines. You can review the details of the session and register prior to Thursday, November 11th.
If you are unable to participate in the working session, we encourage you to schedule a free appointment with our BPC consultants before the December 1st, 2021 – December 22nd, 2021 proposal window deadline for NSF CISE Core Medium projects.
Questions about these Departmental BPC Plan Working Sessions should be directed to bpcinfo@cra.org or through our contact form.
Two major changes to the BPC Plan guidelines include the following:
- There are now two types of Project BPC Plans that Principal Investigators (PIs) can submit: Standalone Project BPC Plans and Connected Project BPC Plans. Connected Project BPC Plans include a Departmental BPC Plan.
- All medium project proposals to the Core Programs solicitation (NSF 21-616) must include a Project BPC Plan as supplementary documentation at the time of submission. This means that Departmental BPC Plans may be submitted as part of a proposal and therefore must follow PAPPG formatting.
BPCnet.org has the full announcement about the changes to BPC Plan requirements from NSF.
