Outreach and Scaling-up Activities for the ALIGNED Project

这一快速奖励正被用于增强美国地理学家协会正在开发的一个新的地理空间本科生招生工具包的能力，该工具包正在帮助地球科学和地理系识别和接触到其共同来源地区和尚未确定的主要人口中的学生。AAG的创新部门工具包结合了一个空间决策支持系统原型和一个在线材料交换中心，以增加未被充分代表的群体成员对地理/地球科学的参与。这笔赠款用于纳入新的外联和扩大活动，这些活动将解决两个目标，这两个目标仍然是协调一致项目最初目标的核心。正在将其他关键功能纳入工具包，并正在扩大部门数据持有量，为更广泛地用作国家级工具包做准备。大约另外50个系的本科生档案数据正被添加到该系统中。此外，正在开发一个地图层，用于定位拥有以下奖项的机构：Louis Stokes少数群体参与计划联盟(LSAMP)、研究生教育和教授联盟(AGEP)、卓越科学技术研究中心(CREST)、历史上的黑人学院和本科生计划(HBCU-UP)、提高女性在学术科学和工程职业中的参与和地位(Advance)，和/或加强地球科学计划多样性的机会(OEDG)。AAG还制作了七个新的外展视频，解决关于地球科学的常见问题和考虑，这些问题经常为成绩不佳的学生做出关于教育和职业道路的决定提供参考。这些视频中的主题是通过与支持这些社区的少数群体服务机构和专业协会的代表协商而制定的，这些机构和专业协会包括美国地球物理联盟(AGU)、美国地质学会(AGI)、西班牙裔大学协会(HACU)和美国印第安人高等教育联盟(AIHEC)。这些活动是在2012年2月在纽约举行的AAG年会上组织的活动的同时进行的，预计将有8 500多人参加，目前正在规划主要地理和地球科学协会之间的特别协调活动。

This RAPID award is being used to augment capabilities of a new geospatial undergraduate student recruitment toolkit under development at the American Association of Geographers that is helping geoscience and geography departments identify and reach students both within their common source regions and from among their undecided major population. AAG's innovative department toolkit combines a spatial decision support system prototype and an online clearinghouse of materials for increasing the participation of members of underrepresented groups in geography/geosciences. This grant is being used to incorporate new outreach and scaling-up activities that will address two objectives that remain central to the ALIGNED project's original goals. Additional key features are being incorporated into the toolkit and the departmental data holdings are being expanded, in preparation for broader use as a national level toolkit. Undergraduate profile data of approximately 50 additional departments are being added to the system. In addition, a map layer that locates institutions with active NSF awards from the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation Program (LSAMP), Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), Centers for Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST), Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP), Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers (ADVANCE), and/or Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences (OEDG) programs is being developed. AAG is also producing seven new outreach videos that address common issues and considerations about the geosciences that often inform decisions made by under-reprented students regarding education and career pathways. The themes being featured in these videos have been developed through consultation with representatives from minority-serving institutions and professional societies supporting these communities, including the American Geophysical Union (AGU), American Geological Institute (AGI), Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities (HACU), and, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC). These activities are being conducted in conjunction with events being organized in at the AAG's Annual Meeting in New York, February 2012, where more than 8,500 attendees are expected and special coordinated activities among the major geography and geoscience associations are being planned.