Targeted Infusion Project: Infusion of Geospatial Informatics to Enhance an Undergraduate Biological Science Program

历史上的黑人学院和大学本科生计划（HBCU-UP）通过有针对性的输液项目支持开发，实施和基于证据的创新模式和方法的研究，以提高HBCU本科生的准备和成功，使他们可以追求科学，技术，工程或数学（STEM）研究生课程和/或职业。该项目旨在为德克萨斯南方大学的本科生物学课程注入地理空间信息科学与技术（GIST）。这将有助于学生准备应对地理空间信息，生态，环境科学和自然资源管理领域的全球挑战。该项目的目标是：1）促进学生对地理空间信息学的兴趣，从而满足全球对日益多样化的地理空间劳动力的需求，2）培养批判性思维，提高解决问题的能力，使学生为未来在一系列领域需要地理空间技能的职业做好更好的准备，3）为学生提供尖端的地理空间技术技能，以收集现场数据，创建和解释地理空间地图，以及4）增加申请地理空间相关STEM领域研究生课程和实习的代表性不足的学生数量。 这将通过在现有课程的模块中添加地理空间内容，创建一个以GIST为重点的课程，开发一个新的地理空间科学本科证书，并实施GIST本科研究计划来实现。 通过一系列有计划的传播活动，该项目有可能影响全球信息支助小组各组成部分在一系列机构的实施。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) through Targeted Infusion Projects supports the development, implementation, and study of evidence-based innovative models and approaches for improving the preparation and success of HBCU undergraduate students so that they may pursue science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) graduate programs and/or careers. This project seeks to infuse the undergraduate biology curriculum at Texas Southern University with geospatial informational science and technology (GIST). This will help prepare students to address global challenges in the fields of geospatial information, ecology, environmental science, and natural resource management. The activities and strategies are evidence-based and formative and summative evaluation are an integral part of the project.This project has the objectives to 1) promote student interest in geospatial informatics thereby addressing the global need for an increasingly diversified geospatial workforce, 2) foster critical thinking and enhance problem solving skills to better prepare students for future careers demanding geospatial skills in a range of fields, 3) equip students with cutting edge geospatial technology skills to collect field data, create and interpret geospatial maps, and 4) increase the number of underrepresented students applying for graduate programs and internships in geospatial-related STEM-fields. This will be accomplished by adding geospatial content to modules in existing courses, creating a GIST-focused course, developing a new undergraduate certificate in geospatial science, and implementing a GIST undergraduate research program. Through a range of planned dissemination activities, this project has the potential to affect the implementation of GIST components at a range of institutions.