Rural Alaska Honors Institute (RAHI) Geoscience Course

正在开发一种综合的、代际的方法，以吸引年轻的阿拉斯加原住民从事地球科学，并鼓励已宣布的阿拉斯加原住民地球科学专业继续他们的学习。正在专门为阿拉斯加乡村荣誉学院(RAHI)注册的高三和高年级学生设计一门大学水平的、实地强化的地球科学入门课程。本课程将向阿拉斯加原住民学生介绍与阿拉斯加原住民及其社区相关的地质问题和关切。阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯分校(UAF)的本地本科生和研究生将与地球科学教师合作，为Rahi学生提供助教和导师。这将为地质学专业的学生提供额外的机会与教师进行个人互动，研究阿拉斯加原住民面临的地质学问题，并将地质学作为一种职业进行探索。该计划与UAF的Louis Stokes少数群体参与联盟(LSAMP)计划、阿拉斯加原住民科学与工程计划(ANSEP)合作，为正在参加或进入UAF地球科学计划的阿拉斯加原住民本科生和研究生提供学生咨询、辅导和奖学金支持。

An integrated, intergenerational approach is being developed to attract young Alaska Natives to the geosciences as a career and to encourage declared Alaska Native geoscience majors to continue their studies. A college-level, field-intensive, introductory geoscience course is being designed specifically for the high school juniors and seniors enrolled at the Rural Alaska Honors Institute (RAHI). This class will introduce Alaska Native students to the geologic issues and concerns relevant to Alaska Natives and their communities. Native undergraduate and graduate geoscience majors from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) will work with geoscience faculty as teaching assistants and mentors to the RAHI students. This will provide an additional opportunity for geology majors to interact with faculty on an individual basis, examine the geologic issues facing Alaska Natives, and explore geology as a profession. This program is working with UAF's Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program, the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP), to provide student advising, tutoring and scholarship support for Alaska Native undergraduate and graduate students currently in or entering the UAF geoscience program.