GP-IMPACT: Increasing Geosciences Enrollment through Research Experiences, Mentoring, and Curriculum Interactions With Community Colleges and High Schools

GP-IMPACT：通过研究经验、指导以及与社区学院和高中的课程互动来增加地球科学的入学人数

• 批准号: 1600463
• 负责人: Brian Colle
• 金额: $ 40.93万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1600463&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; IMPACT; Increasing; Geosciences; Enrollment

This program focuses on enhancing undergraduate research skills, encouraging matriculation in geoscience majors, recruiting and mentoring students at local community colleges and several high schools with large numbers of minority and high-needs students, and promoting the relevance of geoscience careers as viable career paths in academia, government service, and private industry. By developing ways to effectively engage a diversity of students, including under-represented minority (URM) students in geoscience disciplines and careers, this project is helping to address the United States' needs for producing more students well versed in geoscience and thus further enhancing the country's economic competitiveness. This project involves collaborations within the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, the Department of Geosciences and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Smart program housed in the Department of Technology and Society. Off-campus partners include Nassau and Suffolk County Community Colleges and several high schools on Long Island, all of which are within close geographic proximity of the Stony Brook University (SBU) campus. The main features of this project include: (1) Expanding summer research experiences for community college students interested in the geosciences, with a strong focus towards URM students; (2) Collaborating with community colleges and high schools during the academic year with joint club activities, seminars, and mentoring of students by SBU faculty, senior undergraduates, and graduate students; (3) Collaborating with the local community colleges to develop curricular units that result in a smoother transition for students from 2-year to 4-year institutions, such as SBU; (4) Providing scholarship support to students transitioning from community colleges to SBU geoscience majors, including URMs, by incorporating them into several existing academic and support structures available at the University, including the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP); (5) Providing increased internship and research opportunities for minority high school students and undergraduates in the geosciences at SBU and at other nearby locations (e.g., Brookhaven National Laboratory); and (6) Collecting data for a longitudinal study that gauges the awareness of, and reasons for, students pursuing geoscience majors or leaving the program part way through. The programs being implemented have potential for being adapted to other institutional contexts, thereby expanding access to and excellence in geoscience disciplines.

该计划的重点是提高本科生的研究技能，鼓励入学地球科学专业，招募和指导学生在当地社区学院和几所高中有大量的少数民族和高需求的学生，并促进地球科学职业的相关性作为可行的职业道路在学术界，政府服务，和私营企业。该项目通过制定有效吸引各种学生，包括在地球科学学科和职业中代表性不足的少数民族学生的方法，正在帮助满足美国培养更多精通地球科学的学生的需要，从而进一步提高该国的经济竞争力。该项目涉及海洋与大气科学学院，地球科学系以及技术与社会系的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）智能计划内的合作。 校外合作伙伴包括拿骚和萨福克县社区学院以及长岛的几所高中，所有这些学校都在斯托尼布鲁克大学（SBU）校园附近。该项目的主要特点包括：（1）扩大对地球科学感兴趣的社区大学学生的夏季研究经验，重点关注URM学生;（2）在学年期间与社区大学和高中合作，联合俱乐部活动，研讨会，并由SBU教师，高年级本科生和研究生指导学生;（3）与当地社区学院合作，开发课程单元，使学生从两年制学校顺利过渡到四年制学校，如SBU;（4）为从社区学院过渡到SBU地球科学专业的学生提供奖学金支持，包括URM，通过将它们纳入大学现有的几个学术和支持结构，包括路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）;（五）为SBU和附近其他大学的少数民族高中生和本科生提供更多的实习和研究机会位置（例如，布鲁克海文国家实验室）;（6）收集纵向研究的数据，以衡量学生攻读地球科学专业或中途离开该专业的意识和原因。正在实施的方案有可能被调整到其他机构的情况下，从而扩大获得和卓越的地球科学学科。