Broadening Participation: An Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program Dissemination Conference

调查人员概述了一项计划，即在阿拉斯加安克雷奇大学（University of Alaska Anchorage）的校园里举办一次宣传会议，分享和推广一些典型的做法，以扩大阿拉斯加原住民和其他传统上代表性不足的群体的参与。该项目基于一个新兴的成功的扩大参与者计划，旨在增加阿拉斯加原住民在工程领域的代表性。阿拉斯加本土科学与工程项目（ANSEP）是一个综合性的示范项目，目前有2000名学生参与。2015年，城市研究所完成了对该项目的定量和定性评估。他们发现，ANSEP模式为其他面向未被充分代表的少数族裔的科学、技术、工程和数学教育项目提供了重要的经验教训，特别是在中学到研究生院学生的参与方面。阿拉斯加拥有全国最昂贵的K12教育系统之一，并且在所有级别的表现中一直排名垫底。许多条件和学生的结果与全国各地服务不足的社区相似，包括内城、密西西比三角洲、美国农村、阿巴拉契亚和印第安保留地。ANSEP催化了教育范式的变化，并建立了从六年级到研究生院的一套全面的组成部分。其目的是影响系统的变化，以改善工程劳动力中阿拉斯加本地人的招聘、发展和进步。该项目利用美国国家科学基金会的支持，通过与100多家工业公司、慈善组织、联邦和州机构、学校、学院和大学的合作，维持和制度化各种项目组成部分，这些公司提供资源、宣传、研究机会和实习机会。将从不同机构类型中选出7个团队参加传播会议。团队将包括高等教育、中学、工业和慈善合作伙伴。将从目标机构征求参与者，在这些机构中，工作的复制将产生最大的影响和最大的成功可能性。这次会议的目的是亲身体验。团队将向ANSEP合作伙伴、学生和校友小组学习，并将参与和观察与ANSEP计划组成部分相关的活动。每个团队将根据当地环境的细微差别开发一个定制的项目。

The investigators outline a plan to host a dissemination conference on the campus of the University of Alaska Anchorage to share and scale exemplary practices that broaden participation among Native Alaskans and other traditionally underrepresented groups. The project is based on an emerging successful broadening participant program that aims to increase the representation of Alaska Natives in engineering. The Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program (ANSEP) is comprehensive model program that currently works with 2,000 students. A quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the program was completed in 2015 by the Urban Institute. They found that the ANSEP model offers important lessons for other science, technology, engineering and mathematics education programs for underrepresented minorities, especially in its engagement of students from middle school through graduate school. Alaska has one of the most expensive K12 education systems in the nation and consistently ranks at the bottom for performance at all levels. Many of the conditions and student outcomes are similar to those found in under-served communities across the nation including inner cities, the Mississippi Delta, rural America, Appalachia, and Indian reservations. ANSEP has catalyzed a change in the educational paradigm and established a comprehensive set of components that extend from 6th grade to graduate school. The aim is effecting systemic change to improve the recruitment, progression, and advancement of Alaska Natives in the engineering workforce. The program has leveraged NSF support to sustain and institutionalize the various programmatic components through partnerships with more than 100 industrial firms, philanthropic organizations, federal and state agencies, schools, colleges, and universities who provide resources, advocacy, research opportunities, and internships. Seven teams from a variety of institutional types will be selected to participate in the dissemination conference. Teams will include a cross-section of higher education, secondary school, industry and philanthropic partners. Participants will be solicited from targeted institutions where a replication of the work will have the greatest impact and highest likelihood of success. The conference is designed to be hands-on and experiential. Teams will learn from panels of ANSEP partners, students, and alumni, and will participate in and observe activities associated with the ANSEP programmatic components. Each team will develop a customized program based on the nuances of their local contexts.