Building on our Success: A proposal to enhance and improve minority student recruitment and retention in the Geosciences at the University of New Orleans

建立在我们成功的基础上：在过去的27年里，地质和地球物理系在新奥尔良大学（UNO）管理招聘和毕业的BS和MS非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔地球科学家的计划。 招收少数民族学生的主要工具是为优秀的高中三年级和四年级学生提供暑期实地考察和奖学金支持。 该计划不仅重视招收优秀高中生，还通过理科教学硕士（MAST）计划对当地教师进行培训和认证。该奖项将扩大和加强现有的少数民族学生和教师的招聘，保留和毕业计划，并采取行动，这也将有助于在期末实现自我维持。 创建一个咨询小组，主要由前UNO少数民族学生毕业生组成，现在在当地工业，学术界和政府机构就业是重要的第一步。 该小组将协助指导初中，本科和研究生，并作为一个资源，教师更好地了解招聘问题。 该奖项还将扩大一个有竞争力的，高中水平的环境科学夏季课程，开放给当地学生在他们的大一到高中高年级。 推广计划将扩大到包括当地的中学，那里教授地球科学。 还将设立访问学者项目。

ABSTRACTBUILDING ON OUR SUCCESS: A PROPOSAL TO ENHANCE AND IMPROVE MINORITY STUDENT RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION IN THE GEOSCIENCES AT THE UNIVERISTY OF NEW ORLEANSFor the past 27 years, the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of New Orleans (UNO) has managed a program for recruiting and graduating BS and MS African-American and Hispanic geoscientists. The primary tools for minority student recruitment have been a summer field trip for outstanding high school juniors and seniors, and scholarship support. This program emphasizes not only recruitment of outstanding high school students, but also the training and certification of local teachers through a Masters in Science Teaching (MAST) program.This award will expand and enhance the existing program of recruitment, retention, and graduation of minority students and teachers by taking actions that will also help to it become self-sustaining at the end of the period. Creating an advisory panel that consists mostly of former UNO minority-student graduates, now employed in local industry, academia, and government agencies is an important first step. The panel will assist in mentoring middle-high school, undergraduate and graduate students, and serve as a resource to faculty to better understand recruitment issues. The award will also expand a competitive, high school level summer program in environmental science open to local students in their freshman through senior years of high school. The outreach program will be expanded to include local middle schools where earth science is taught. A visiting scholars program will also be established.