Woksape Kici Woitinze - Support for Knowledge

部落学院和大学计划（TCUP）的一个目标是提高为美国土著学生服务的特定高等教育机构的科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教学和研究能力。在这些机构扩大STEM课程的范围，可以扩大学生在STEM领域追求具有挑战性、回报丰厚的职业的机会，为可能具有文化意义的领域提供研究，并鼓励社区和世代对科学和数学教育的欣赏。该项目与这一目标直接一致，而且将告知有关大学预科和本科研究经验在招募和留住代表性不足的个人进入STEM研究以及为下一代STEM专业人员做好准备方面的重要性和行为的知识体系。将学生与研究联系起来是留住那些更有可能追求更高学位的学生的重要一步。对于那些直接从部落学院进入劳动力市场的学生来说，同样重要的是，他们在数学、科学和技术方面拥有明确的技能，以便进入STEM劳动力市场。该项目还通过对教学和学习的多学科STEM研究推进了STEM+计算伙伴关系计划的目标。具体活动是：通过科学博览会吸引K-12学生，通过与K-12科学教师导师的共享研究活动为高中毕业生搭建桥梁，发展分散的数学和科学写作学习社区，继续高质量的本科研究，为数学课程开发基于发现的物理和民族数学丰富活动，并通过在同行评议的期刊上发表文章，为学生和教师提供学科特定和教育发现的科学传播。通过这些战略实现的STEM招聘、保留、持久性和完成度的改进将通过计划性改进和部门与奥格拉拉·拉科塔战略计划和招生管理计划的一致来维持。Woksapi Kici Woitinze通过以下方式加强STEM教育和本科研究：1)设计、适应和评估创新的教育策略，以提高学院吸引、留住和教育STEM学生、准备继续攻读学士或研究生学位的研究生或加入STEM劳动力的能力和有效性；2)在分散的部落学院校园环境中，在主要是印第安人，贫困水平，女性社区中传播STEM教育的成功教育模式和方法；3)促进对奥格拉拉部落国家相关领域的科学理解，包括：通过与学术和部落项目合作者在同行评审期刊上的研究和发表，研究了气候变化对中西部牧场流域生态的影响，可持续住房的进展，生物燃料和药用植物提取物加工，空气和水质分析，箱龟的保护状况和遗传以及野牛的健康和行为，以及始新世和中新世年龄的陆地沉积物和化石的地层学描述。

A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to increase the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructional and research capacities of specific institutions of higher education that serve the Nation's indigenous students. Expanding the STEM curricular offerings at these institutions expands the opportunities of their students to pursue challenging, rewarding careers in STEM fields, provides for research studies in areas that may be culturally significant, and encourages a community and generational appreciation for science and mathematics education. This project aligns directly with that goal, and moreover will inform the body of knowledge about the importance and conduct of pre-college and undergraduate research experiences in recruiting and retaining underrepresented individuals into STEM studies, and preparing the next generation of STEM professionals. The connection of students to research is an important step in retaining students who are more likely to pursue advanced degrees. For those students entering the workforce directly from a tribal college it is equally important that they have a well-defined skill set in mathematics, science, and technology for entry into the STEM workforce. The project also advances objectives of the STEM+Computing Partnerships program through its multidisciplinary STEM research on teaching and learning.The specific activities are to: engage K-12 students through science fairs, bridge high school graduates through a shared research activity with a K-12 science teacher-mentor, develop decentralized mathematics and scientific-writing learning communities, continue high-quality undergraduate research, develop discovery-based physics and ethnomathematics enrichment activities for mathematics courses, and provide for student and faculty scientific dissemination of discipline specific and educational findings through publishing in peer-reviewed journals. The improvements in STEM recruiting, retention, persistence, and completion that will be realized through these strategies will be sustained through programmatic improvements and departmental alignment with Oglala Lakota's strategic plan and enrollment management plan. Woksapi Kici Woitinze strengthens STEM education and undergraduate research through: 1) design, adaptation and assessment of innovative educational strategies to increase the capacity and effectiveness of the college to attract, retain, and educate students in STEM, graduate students prepared to pursue further study at the baccalaureate or graduate level, or to join the STEM workforce; 2) dissemination of successful educational models and methods for STEM education in a primarily Native American, poverty level, female community within a decentralized Tribal College campus setting; and 3) advancing scientific understanding in areas relevant to the Oglala Tribal Nation including: the effects of climate variability on the ecology of midwestern rangeland steams, advances in sustainable housing, biofuels and medicinal plant extract processing, air and water quality analysis, the conservation status and genetics of box turtles and the health and behavior of bison, and descriptions of the stratigraphy Eocene and Miocene aged terrestrial deposits and fossils by researching and publishing on these items in peer-reviewed journals with academic and tribal program collaborators.