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

扩大参与：阿拉斯加本土科学

• 批准号: 1737772
• 负责人: Herb Schroeder
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Anchorage Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-15 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1737772&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broadening; Participation; Alaska; Native; Science

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.

调查人员概述了在阿拉斯加大学锚地校园举办一次传播会议的计划，以共享和扩展示例性实践，以扩大阿拉斯加人和其他传统代表性不足的群体之间的参与。该项目基于一项新兴的成功扩展参与者计划，旨在增加阿拉斯加土著人在工程方面的代表性。阿拉斯加本地科学与工程计划（ANSEP）是目前与2,000名学生合作的综合模型计划。 Urban Institute在2015年对该计划进行了定量和定性评估。他们发现，ANSEP模型为其他科学，技术，工程和数学教育计划提供了重要的课程，为代表性不足的少数群体提供了重要的课程，尤其是在中学到研究生院的学生参与。阿拉斯加拥有全美最昂贵的K12教育系统之一，并且在各个级别的表现中一直处于最低水平。许多条件和学生的成果与全国服务不足的社区相似，包括内城，密西西比三角洲，美国农村，阿巴拉契亚州和印度保留。 ANSEP催化了教育范式的变化，并建立了一组从六年级到研究生院的全面组成部分。目的是实现系统性变化，以改善阿拉斯加人在工程劳动力中的招聘，进步和进步。该计划通过与100多家工业公司，慈善组织，联邦和州机构，学校，学校和大学提供资源，倡导，研究机会和实习机会的合作伙伴关系，利用NSF支持来维持和制度化各种程序化组件。将选择来自各种机构类型的七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的横截面。参与者将从有针对性的机构中征求参与者，在这些机构中复制工作将产生最大的影响和最大的成功可能性。该会议旨在实践和体验。团队将从ANSEP合作伙伴，学生和校友的小组中学习，并将参与并观察与ANSEP编程组件相关的活动。每个团队将根据其本地环境的细微差别制定定制程序。