Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)
- A term of art, promoted heavily by the U.S. National Science Foundation and professional societies such as ACM, referring to concerted efforts to increase the participation of groups that are historic…
- National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID)
- The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), one of the nine colleges of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), is the first and largest technical college in the world for students who are …
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU, REU Program, REU Supplement)
- A U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) funding program that supports active research participation by undergraduate students in areas funded by NSF. REU awards fund either dedicated REU Sites — coho…
- Tiered Mentoring (Near-Peer Mentoring, Cascade Mentoring)
- A mentoring structure in which learners at several stages of development work together, so that each participant has a role model who is only one step ahead of them rather than many. In a tiered model…