Building a New Minority Geoscience Awareness Program in an Area Impacted by the Relocation of Residents after Hurricane Katrina

这个由sgr资助的项目正在为休斯顿-新奥尔良走廊的地球科学专业招收少数族裔学生建立一条新的管道，以应对卡特里娜飓风给新奥尔良教育系统带来的灾难性破坏。该项目正在探索在新奥尔良大学运行了35年的学生招聘模式项目的可移植性，通过重现其在UTEP的基本元素，但与来自休斯顿地区的学生和教师合作。特别令人感兴趣的是，这种模式是否对从新奥尔良搬到德克萨斯州的学生仍然有效，以及对那些生活在人口结构与新奥尔良截然不同的环境中的学生是否有效，新奥尔良的非洲裔美国人更多。通过这个项目，从休斯顿到埃尔帕索的少数民族高中学生和教师将参与活动和实地考察，这将开阔他们对地球科学教育和职业道路的视野。来自新奥尔良、休斯顿和埃尔帕索的中学科学教师网络将通过联合专业发展和研究生学位课程得到发展。UNO地球科学项目中尚未找到替代学术项目的流离失所的参与者将被寻找并支持在UTEP学习。

This SGER-funded project is establishing a new pipeline for minority student recruitment into the geosciences in the Houston-New Orleans corridor, in response to the catastrophic disruptions for the New Orleans educational systems brought on by Hurricane Katrina. The project is exploring the portability of a model program for student recruitment operated at the University of New Orleans for 35 years by recreating its essential elements at UTEP, but working with students and teachers from the Houston area. Of particular interest is whether the model is still effective for students who have been displaced from New Orleans to Texas and for students in an environment where the demographic profile is very different from that of New Orleans, which was more homogeneously African-American. Through this project, minority high school students and teachers from Houston to El Paso will be engaged in activities and field trips that will open their eyes to educational and career pathways in the geosciences. A nework of secondary school science teachers from New Orleans, Houston, and El Paso will be developed through joint professional development and graduate degree programs. Displaced participants from the UNO geoscience programs who have not yet been able to find alternative academic programs will be sought out and supported for study at UTEP.