PGE/SEP: Supporting university women in geoscience: the mentoring ladder, field experience, and academic training

PGE/SEP：支持地球科学领域的大学女性：指导阶梯、现场经验和学术培训

• 批准号: 9979305
• 负责人: Pamela Jansma
• 金额: $ 9.2万
• 依托单位: University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-12-01 至 2000-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9979305&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PGE; SEP; Supporting; university; women

The goal of this project, to be conducted at the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez (UPRM), is to improve the number of Hispanic women who complete undergraduate degrees and enter graduate programs in the Earth Sciences by targeting three critical transition points which strongly affect future career decisions: 1) entry into college; 2) the senior year and impending graduation; and 3) the beginning years of graduate school. The objectives are: to encourage the women during these transition periods to remain in geosciences and to nurture them into becoming leaders who will ascend through the scientific hierarchy and serve as role models. The long-term goal is to increase the numbers and the visibility of Hispanic women at the national level in geosciences. The total number of Hispanic women impacted is approximately 80 during the 18-month tenure of the proposal. Project activities include: establishing a support network of peers early in the college career with a weekend field-trip for entering female geoscience majors; building cooperation and leadership through teamwork during a two-week field experience for senior undergraduate and graduate women; developing self-confidence and academic proficiency through a mentoring ladder in which freshman are guided by upper-class women who are counseled by graduate students, who, in turn, are supported by a faculty member; improving professional and social skills through seminars given by female students of all levels and critiqued by their colleagues; and increasing awareness of opportunities through attendance at national meetings and a lecture series that brings prominent female geoscientists to UPRM. Project activities are complementary. The unifying theme is the focus on improving self-confidence and self-reliance through independent decision-making, mentoring, and a support network of peers that can be used throughout a woman's career.

该项目将在波多黎各马亚圭斯大学（UPRM）实施，其目标是提高完成本科学位并进入地球科学研究生课程的西班牙裔妇女的人数，具体做法是针对对未来职业决定产生重大影响的三个关键过渡点：1）进入大学; 2）大四和即将毕业; 3）研究生院的开始阶段。 其目标是：鼓励妇女在这些过渡时期继续从事地球科学工作，并培养她们成为领导者，在科学等级制度中不断晋升，成为榜样。 长期目标是增加西班牙裔妇女在国家一级地球科学领域的人数和知名度。 在该提案的18个月任期内，受影响的西班牙裔妇女总数约为80人。 项目活动包括：在大学生涯早期建立一个同龄人支持网络，为进入地球科学专业的女生提供周末实地考察;在为期两周的实地考察期间，为高年级本科生和研究生女生提供团队合作和领导能力;通过指导阶梯培养自信心和学术能力，在这种指导阶梯中，新生由上层阶级的女性指导，这些女性由研究生提供咨询，反过来，这些活动包括：在一名教员的支持下开展工作;通过由各级女学生举办研讨会并接受其同事的批评，提高专业和社会技能;通过参加国家会议和邀请杰出女地球科学家参加UPRM的系列讲座，提高对机会的认识。 项目活动是相辅相成的。 统一的主题是通过独立决策、指导和可在妇女整个职业生涯中使用的同龄人支持网络，重点提高自信和自力更生。