The goal of the NSF-funded FLIP (Diversifying Future Leadership in the Professoriate) Alliance is to address the broadening participation challenge of increasing the diversity of the future leadership in the professoriate in computing at research universities as a way to achieve diversity across the field. 

Dr. Stafford Hood and Dr. Denice Hood at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be the senior personnel overseeing the evaluation and assessment of this grant. The FLIP Alliance will focus on strategic dimensions for scaling the effective programs. The principle investigators on the grant include Valerie Taylor (University of Chicago), Charles Isbell (Georgia Tech), and Jeffrey Forbes (Duke University).