About CRA 

The Computing Research Association counts among its members almost 300 North American organizations active in computing research: academic units of computing; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia; and affiliated professional societies (AAAI, ACM, CS-CAN, IEEE Computer Society, SIAM, and USENIX). CRA has a 50 year history of supporting these organizations with events and online repositories to effect change that benefits both computing research and society at large. CRA is incorporated in the District of Columbia and operates as a 501(c)3 organization under the Tax Code of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

The mission of the Computing Research Association is to catalyze computing research by engaging industry, government, and academia. CRA executes this mission by leading the computing research community, informing policymakers and the public, and promoting the development of an innovative and responsible computing research workforce.

Consortium Involvement 

CRA members include almost all of the programs that graduate more than 200 computing students in the U.S., which produce over 60% of all computing grads (excluding for-profit institutions). CRA has also been awarded several educational AI projects funded by NSF, many of which will engage computing members. Thus, our reach and projects make CRA an ideal consortium member for achieving an impact on the use of Generative AI in CS education. 

CRA's planned involvement with the consortium: 

1. CRA will integrate a focus on the use of Generative AI tools in CS courses in the upcoming roundtable discussions and in-person workshops that we are currently planning on AI education: NSF LEVEL UP AI and NSF NAIRR Pilot Expansion Workshops.  CRA did this successfully at the CRA Summit on AI Undergraduate Education (July 29, 2025), and CRA Summit on AI Graduate Education and Research (July 30, 2025).
2. CRA will showcase Google’s efforts in developing course materials and a community of practice for faculty to adopt the use of GenAI in their courses in our various professional development activities (e.g., Career Mentoring Workshop scheduled for Feb 9-10, 2026).
3. CRA will develop a “Teaching with GenAI” repository, which includes whitepapers, best practices, and case studies of faculty adopting and using GenAI in their courses. This CRA repository will augment and link to the course materials repository created by the Google consortium.
4. CRA will amplify the impact of the Google consortium with news items and event announcements through CRA’s CRN and events that we host, reaching over 20,000 faculty in the computing community.