BPC Events

BPCnet periodically hosts informational events to support departments and individuals in developing their BPC Plans. See below for more information about current and past events.

You may also be interested in our BPC Community Calendar, which aggregates and disseminates information about community-wide BPC events.

Departmental BPC Plan Events

A Departmental BPC Plan serves to coordinate BPC activities within a department and provide context for the activities proposed by PIs in their Project BPC Plan.

Project BPC Plan Events

A Project BPC Plan is submitted to NSF as a supplementary document that details the proposed BPC activities of the PIs. A Project BPC Plan may reference and link to one or more Departmental BPC Plans.

Upcoming Departmental BPC Plan Events:

 

Working Sessions for Departmental BPC Plans

  • Description: A 2 hour session in which participants will get a chance to understand new NSF CISE BPC Plan guidelines for Medium project proposals to the Core Programs solicitation (NSF 21-616). Participants will also have hands-on time to update their existing Departmental BPC Plans or create a new Departmental BPC Plan. BPC Consultants will be in attendance to support participants.
  • Date(s):
    • October 22, 2021, 2:00-4:00pm ET
    • November 11, 2021, 3:00-5:00pm ET
  • Location: Virtual (Zoom)
  • Page: https://bpcnet.org/working-sessions/
  • Register for one or both working sessions: 

 

Upcoming Project BPC Plan Events:

 

Currently, there are no upcoming Project BPC Plan events.

Please check back later for more updates.

Past Departmental BPC Plan Events:

 

Departmental BPC Plan Writing Workshop Series

  • Description: A multi-day informational workshop about Departmental BPC Plans. Participants will be able to talk to BPC Consultants to get advice about their specific situation. The schedule includes hands-on writing sessions to allow participants to apply the information they learned.
  • Date(s): July 13-14, 2020 (Workshop 1); August 6-7 & 13, 2020 (Workshop 2); October 29, 2020, November 12, 2020, & December 3, 2020 (Workshop 3)
  • Location: virtual
  • Page: https://bpcnet.org/virtual-workshop/
  • Available Resources, Workshop 1 & 2: Slides; Video

Developing Department Plans for Broadening Participation in Computing for NSF Grants

  • Description: Pre-symposium at the SIGCSE conference
  • Date(s): March 11, 2020
  • Location: virtual pre-symposium at the SIGCSE conference
  • Available Resources: Slides; Video

Departmental Plans for Broadening Participation in Computer Science

  • Description: A multi-day informational workshop about Departmental BPC Plans. Participants will be able to talk to BPC Consultants to get advice about their specific situation.
  • Date(s): November 13-15, 2019
  • Location: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Page: https://publish.illinois.edu/nsf-broadening-participation/
  • Available Resources: Slides

Past Project BPC Plan Events:

 

Writing a BPC Plan for Your NSF Proposal

  • Description: Hear from NSF Program officer Dr. Jeff Forbes and BPCnet.org contributor Dr. Colleen Lewis about strategies for developing an impactful BPC Plan for submission with CISE NSF proposals.
  • Date(s): Note: this entry represents three sessions of the same event, which occurred on July 16, 2020; August 18, 2020; and November 2, 2020.
  • Location: virtual
  • Available Resources, 7/2020: Slides; Video
  • Available Resources, 8/2020: Slides; Video 
  • Available Resources, 11/2020: Slides; Video

Resources for Impactful BPC Plans

  • Date(s): August 4, 2020
  • Location: virtual
  • Available Resources: Video

BPC Plans for NeTS and CNS researchers