Kulia: Chaminade University I-USE Program

查米纳德大学是一所本科大学，其特殊使命是为夏威夷原住民和来自美国附属太平洋岛屿的学生提供服务。这个k<s:1>利亚（夏威夷语：努力）项目将提供创新的教育方法，为下一代夏威夷和太平洋岛民科学家做好准备，使他们能够领导制定切实可行的、基于政策的解决方案，以应对太平洋地区的挑战。这些创新方法包括关注“大数据”和在课程中融入本土知识，以促进尖端科学的文化包容性学习环境。k<s:1>是一个跨机构合作项目（檀香山查米纳德大学和夏威夷大学希洛分校），将利用领域科学、多样性/公平性和数据科学专业知识。该项目将实现IUSE的目标，即改善STEM学习环境，扩大参与，并为未来建立一支专业的STEM劳动力队伍。将进行三项具体活动。首先，查米纳德所有科学专业必修的两个学期的生物学入门课程将转变为真实的、为期一学期的研究型课堂，其目标是：促进学生尽早参与研究型课堂，培养学生的研究心态；增加学生对理科专业的坚持；缩小现有探究性课程的初步差距；并为众包教师研究项目提供了一个平台。第二，真正的、一学期的、受文化启发的研究项目，将在高级生物学课程中试点。这些研究教室将以夏威夷土著传统知识为框架。第三，认识到大数据操作、分析和可视化技能对未来科学工作场所的成功至关重要，将在整个课程中嵌入一套核心数据生命周期模块，并开发工具来评估学生收集、组织和分析大型复杂数据集的能力。Kulia将为小型本科院校，尤其是少数族裔服务机构，提供新的工具，以应对正在出现的数字差距，这种差距可能会使学生无法进入未来的STEM职业并取得成功。为了帮助评估这一系列课程创新的有效性，该项目将采用几种方法，包括使用基于课程的本科生研究经验（CURE）调查和学生学习收益评估（SALG）工具。

Chaminade University is an undergraduate university with a special mission of serving Native Hawaiians and students from the US-affiliated Pacific Islands. This Kûlia (Hawaiian: to strive) project will offer innovative educational approaches to prepare the next generation of Hawaiian and Pacific Islander scientists to lead the development of practical and policy-based solutions to Pacific regional challenges. These innovative approaches include a focus on "big data" and the curricular infusion of indigenous knowledge to promote a culturally-inclusive learning environment for cutting-edge science. Kûlia is an inter-institutional effort (The Chaminade University of Honolulu and the University of Hawaii at Hilo) that will leverage domain science, diversity/equity and data science expertise. The project will address the IUSE aims of improving STEM-learning environments, broadening participation, and building a professional STEM workforce for tomorrow. Three specific activities will be undertaken. First, the two semester introductory biology courses required of all science majors at Chaminade will be converted to authentic, semester-long, research classrooms, with the goals of: promoting early engagement in research classrooms and creating a research mindset for students; increasing student persistence in science majors; closing an initial gap in the existing inquiry-based curriculum; and providing a vehicle for crowd-sourcing faculty research projects. Second, authentic, semester-long, culturally-inspired research projects, will be piloted in senior biology courses. These research classrooms will be framed by indigenous Hawaiian traditional knowledge. Third, recognizing that skills in big data manipulation, analytics and visualization are central to success in tomorrow's scientific workplaces, a core set of data lifecycle modules will be embedded throughout the curriculum and tools will be developed for assessment of student competencies in gathering, organizing and analyzing large, complex data sets. Kulia will provide new tools for small undergraduate institutions, especially Minority Serving Institutions, to confront the emerging digital disparity that threatens to exclude their students from access to, and success in, tomorrow's STEM careers. To help assess the effectiveness of this suite of curricular innovations the project will employ several approaches including use of the Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) survey and the Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG) instrument.