Creating a Pipeline for African American Computing Science Faculty: An Innovative Faculty /Research Mentoring Program Model

African Americans represent1.3% ofall computing sciencesfacultyin PhD-granting departments, underscoring the severe underrepresentation of Black/African American tenure-trackfaculty in computing (CRA, 2012). The Future Faculty/Research Scientist Mentoring (FFRM) program,funded by the 1Vational Science Foundation, wasfound to be an effective strategy in increasing the number of tenure trackfaculty hires by 11% (Charleston & jackson, 2011). This manuscript describes a new program, the lnstitute for African American Mentoring in Computer Sciences (iAAMCS), which capitalizes on the successes of the FFRM and other mentoring models. The iAAMCS endeavors to improvefaculty representation through a national mentoring model.