Looking in the Right Places: Minority-Serving Institutions as Sources of Diverse Earth Science Learners
Looking in the Right Places: Minority-Serving Institutions as Sources of Diverse Earth Science Learners
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寻找正确的地方：为少数群体服务的机构作为多元化地球科学学习者的来源
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10.5408/16-224.1
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发表时间：
2017
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C. Orr
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J. McDaris;C. Manduca;Ellen R. Iverson;C. Orr
摘要尽管在过去十年中取得了进展，但就多样性而言，今天美国的地球科学学生人数继续落后于其他科学、技术、工程和数学学科。少数群体服务机构(MSI)可以在努力扩大未被充分代表的学生接触地球科学内容方面发挥重要作用，特别是在与允许MSI分享其专业知识的其他机构和组织的合作中。了解哪些麻省理工学院有与地球相关的学位课程有助于促进这种合作。这篇评论描述了为发现和提高这些节目的知名度所做的努力。2013年，密歇根州立大学地球科学系的数量大约是美国高等教育机构的一半。然而，我们发现，近三分之一的MSI提供一个或多个与地球相关的学位课程。此外，提供与地球有关的学位的学术单位中，超过一半是跨学科的，而不是传统的地球科学系。显然，与地质学专业相比，学生们在更多的地方学习地球。这些计划可以为支持地球科学领域的不同学生提供模式，并为旨在进一步增加地球科学工作人员多样性的潜在合作提供场所。
ABSTRACT Despite gains over the last decade, the geoscience student population in the United States today continues to lag other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines in terms of diversity. Minority-serving institutions (MSIs) can play an important role in efforts to broaden underrepresented student engagement with Earth Science content, especially in collaborations with other institutions and organizations that allow MSIs to share their expertise. Knowing which MSIs have Earth-related degree programs can help facilitate such collaboration. This commentary describes an effort to find and raise the visibility of these programs. In 2013, the abundance of geoscience departments at MSIs was roughly half that seen in U.S. higher-education institutions. Yet we found that nearly a third of MSIs offered one or more Earth-related degree programs. In addition, more than half of the academic units offering Earth-related degrees were interdisciplinary rather than traditional geoscience departments. It is clear that students are learning about the Earth in a wider variety of places than geology programs. These programs could provide models for supporting diverse students in the geosciences, as well as sites for potential collaborations aimed at further increasing the diversity of the geoscience workforce.