LEAP Alliance
The LEAP (Diversifying LEAdership in the Profesoriate) Alliance focuses on increasing the numbers of African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans/Indigenous Americans, and people with disabilities who become faculty at Ph.D.-granting universities.
Georgia Tech's College of Computing is active in this effort. W teach these students as undergraduates, support them as graduate and Ph.D. students, and hire them as faculty. Our involvement as a top-five institution is integral in providing leadership for other universities and partnering with our peers. We are also motivated to take action in supporting the large population of underrepresented students in our region
The LEAP Alliance is a program of the national Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in Information Technology (CMD-IT) and is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Our Mission
The shared purposed and broad vision of the LEAP Alliance is to increase faculty diversity in computing by three main approaches:
- Increase the diversity of PhD graduates from institutions that are the top producers of computing faculty.
- Increase the exposure of academic careers at institutions that already have good diversity in their PhD graduates.
- Increase the retention of diverse undergraduate students at the institutions that send students to graduate school that go on to be faculty.