Collaborative Research: PAGE: Halau Ola Honua "Our living world, living laboratory"

部落学院和大学方案(TCUP)的一个目标是提高为本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。扩大这些机构的外展、研究和STEM教学能力将扩大学生在STEM领域追求具有挑战性、有回报的职业的机会，提供可能与当地相关的领域的研究性学习，并鼓励教师群体将目光投向传统课堂之外的智力和专业成长。该项目与这一目标直接一致，而且将成为该领域未被充分代表的学生在地球科学领域职业生涯的新途径的典范。这些夏威夷社区学院和夏威夷大学海洋学系在地球科学教育方面的合作伙伴关系(PAGE)将实施一种战略方法，以增加主修地球科学的夏威夷原住民的数量和成功，包括接触当地高中，实施通过微积分提高数学准备的夏季桥梁，将夏威夷原住民的传统知识注入到参与机构扩展的地球科学课程中，为本科生提供与当地和文化相关的研究机会，社区推广分享研究成果，并在每个参与机构聘请环境科学专家，以确保学生取得学业成功的可能性最大。

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 outreach, research, and STEM instructional capacity at these institutions expands the opportunities for students to pursue challenging, rewarding careers in STEM fields, provides for research studies in areas that may be locally relevant, and encourages a faculty community to look beyond the traditional classroom for intellectual and professional growth. This project aligns directly with that goal, and moreover will serve as a model for novel pathways to careers in the geosciences for students underrepresented in that field.The Partnerships in Geoscience Education (PAGE) collaborative among these Hawaii community colleges and the University of Hawaii Department of Oceanography will implement a strategic approach to increasing the number and success of Native Hawaiians majoring in the geosciences that will include outreach to local high schools, the implementation of a summer bridge that will increase mathematics readiness through calculus, the infusion of Native Hawaiian traditional knowledge into an expanded geoscience curriculum at the participating institutions, locally and culturally relevant research opportunities for undergraduates, community outreach to share the results of that research, and the engagement of environmental science specialists at each participating institution to ensure the greatest likelihood of students' academic success.