Environmental Stewardship of Indigenous Lands Scholarship Program

在国家科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金(S-STEM)计划的资助下，土著土地环境管理(ESIL)奖学金计划将支持有经济需求的高成就、低收入学生。在五年的时间里，该项目将为在科罗拉多丹佛大学攻读生物学、土木工程或环境科学学士学位的学生提供16个奖学金。Esil奖学金计划将与土著人民(美洲印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民和夏威夷原住民)合作，提供环境管理方面的支持、指导和培训。Esil奖学金计划将解决对环境部落联络的需求，这些人都接受过STEM和跨文化交流方面的培训。为了满足这一需求，Esil奖学金计划将使奖学金获得者能够在部落和非部落政府合作伙伴完成实习，并参加旨在提高STEM跨文化意识、学术支持和职业发展的课外活动。Esil奖学金计划有可能产生以下有价值的知识：(1)大学如何促进所有学生的平等，以及(2)文化、专业精神和沟通方面的非技术性培训如何减少STEM项目中留住学生的障碍(例如，人们认为需要放弃自己的文化认同，转而支持新的科学主流文化认同)。Esil奖学金计划将就如何提供基于文化认同和科学认同是共生而不是排斥的观点的节目进行研究。研究将通过定量和定性研究两种方法进行。Esil奖学金计划旨在增加对环境管理感兴趣的STEM专业的招生人数，提高STEM学生的毕业率，并通过与部落和政府合作伙伴建立更深层次的联系，加强大学校园的土著文化。该项目将开发一种独特的模式，通过跨文化经验将土著文化和STEM结合起来，并将培训具备STEM土地管理职业独特资质的学生。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With funding from the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, the Environmental Stewardship of Indigenous Lands (ESIL) Scholarship Program will support high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need. Over five years, the project will fund 16 scholarships to students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in Biology, Civil Engineering, or Environmental Science at the University of Colorado Denver. The ESIL Scholarship Program will provide support, mentoring, and training in environmental stewardship in collaboration with Indigenous peoples (American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian). The ESIL Scholarship Program will address the need for environmental tribal liaisons, individuals trained in both STEM and cross-cultural communication. To meet this need, the ESIL Scholarship Program will enable scholarship recipients to complete internships at tribal and non-tribal government partners, and to participate in extracurricular activities designed to provide cross-cultural awareness in STEM, academic supports, and professional development. The ESIL Scholarship Program has the potential to produce valuable knowledge about: (1) how a university can promote equity for all students, and (2) how non-technical training in culture, professionalism, and communication can reduce barriers to retention in STEM programs (e.g., the perceived need to abandon one's cultural identity in favor of a new scientific dominant-culture identity). The ESIL Scholarship Program will conduct research on how to provide programming grounded in the viewpoint that cultural identity and scientific identity are symbiotic rather than exclusive. The research will be carried out via both quantitative and qualitative research methods. The ESIL Scholarship Program aims to increase enrollment in STEM majors interested in environmental stewardship, improve graduation rates of STEM students, and strengthen Indigenous culture on a collegiate campus through deeper connections with tribal and government partners. The project will develop a unique model for synergizing indigenous culture and STEM through cross-cultural experiences and will train students who will be uniquely qualified for STEM careers in land stewardship.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.