W. Richards (Rick) Adrion
Professor Emeritus
Robert and Donna Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst
413-545-2475 adrion@umass.edu
Current Projects
Principal Investigator, CS4All RPP Springfield - a partnership between UMass Amherst's Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences and College of Education, Springfield Public Schools, and SageFox Consulting Group. Together, we share the common goal of bringing equitable computer science teaching and learning to all the K-5 students in the Springfield Public Schools system in compliance with the new Massachusetts Digital Learning and Computer Science (MA DLCS) standard. This project is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant Nos. DRL-1837086 and DRL-2219452
Founding PI, Expanding Computing Educational Pathways (ECEP) Alliance. ECEP seeks to increase the number and diversity of students in the pipeline to computing and computing-intensive degrees by supporting state-level computing education reforms.