Connecting Interdisciplinary STEM Education and Research in HBCUs

连接 HBCU 的跨学科 STEM 教育和研究

• 批准号: 1748074
• 负责人: Hongtao Yu
• 金额: $ 4.89万
• 依托单位: Morgan State University
• 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 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1748074&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Connecting; Interdisciplinary; STEM; Education; Research

Part 1Czujko and Nicholson, 2010 reported that of all (about 460) universities that award bachelor?s degrees in geoscience, four universities (Jackson State, Mississippi State, Pennsylvania and Savannah State) top all in awarding bachelor?s degrees to African Americans and they are the only ones that awarded more than 10 bachelor?s degrees to African Americans in geoscience over the 5 years (2004-2008) combined. Together, the four universities accounted for 19% of all geoscience bachelor?s earned by African Americans and Jackson State University is a top producer in both physics and geoscience. Over the last 5 years combined, about 300 universities with geoscience degree programs awarded no bachelor?s degrees to African Americans and about another 95 awarded only one geoscience bachelor?s to an African American.Not surprisingly, three of the four top producers of African Americans earning geoscience bachelor?s degrees are of Historically Black Colleges and University (HBCU) status (Czujko and Nicholson, 2010) yet there are fewer than 10 degree-granting geoscience departments at HBCUs. However, several HBCUs offer related geoscience programs and degrees based on the classification of geoscience instructional programs (Status of the Geoscience Workforce, 2016). Organizationally, HBCUs structure does not include geoscience departments, schools, or program classifications such as biogeosciences, ocean science, etc. Historically, most African Americans who chose geoscience pathways at the graduate levels and who become practicing geoscientists or counted as part of the workforce received their undergraduate training at HBCUs. Recognizing that obstacles to the recruitment, training and retention of underrepresented minorities (URMs) in geosciences exist at all educational levels, concerted and sustained efforts are needed to increase ethnic diversity in geoscience and related sciences, and to understand why so few minority students choose to go into this discipline.A community of stakeholders representing higher education including HBCUs, professional societies including NTA, NOBCCHE (National Organization for the Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers), BEYA, to name a few, and organizations, governmental and private entities will convene during a one-day workshop to lay the foundation for a sustained effort to strengthen geoscience (and STEM) education and research among HBCUs to catalyze these institution?s contribution to broadening participation in the education and workforce sectors.Part 2The number of African Americans receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) by all accounts is disproportionately low. According to an American Institute of Physics report (Czujko and Nicholson, 2010), physics and geoscience consistently rank near the bottom among all disciplines in their ability to attract and retain African American students. In an effort to address this pervasive issue, the National Technical Association (NTA) in collaboration with Morgan State University proposes to host a day-long workshop during the NTA 89th Annual Meeting on September 20-22, 2017 in Baltimore, Maryland. This workshop will provide a forum to convene geoscience and STEM stakeholders to discuss the status of HBCU education, research and workforce in these disciplines, facilitate collaborative efforts and establish a geoscience agenda that contributes to broadening participation.The objectives of the 2017 workshop are to:- Create a shared understanding among participants of geosciences disciplines, education, research and workforce with the context of STEM and non-STEM discipline.- Review the current status of geosciences (and STEM) education and research within HBCUs and simultaneously consider current gaps and potential opportunities from which an action agenda can be established.- Draw on and leverage the expertise of institutional and individual stakeholders engaged in related geoscience and STEM activities and document lessons learned and best and emerging practices for broadening participation.- Present/offer for consideration an interdisciplinary approach as a framework for advancing geosciences and more broadly STEM initiatives within HBCUs.- Explore prospects and strategies for collaboration among various entities?academic institutions, professional associations, federal agencies?to enhance the contribution of HBCUs to the broadening participation and inclusive science agenda.

第1部分Czujko和尼科尔森，2010年报告说，在所有（约460）授予学士学位的大学？四所大学（杰克逊州立大学、密西西比州立大学、宾夕法尼亚州立大学和萨凡纳州立大学）在授予地球科学学士学位方面名列前茅。他们是唯一一个授予10个以上学士学位的人？在过去5年（2004 - 2008年）中，非洲裔美国人获得的地球科学学位加起来。这四所大学加起来占所有地学本科生的19%？s赚取的非裔美国人和杰克逊州立大学是一个顶级生产者在物理和地球科学。在过去的5年里，大约300所大学的地球科学学位课程没有授予学士学位？另外95人只获得一个地球科学学士学位？毫不奇怪，四个获得地球科学学士学位的非洲裔美国人中的三个？的学位是历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）的地位（Czujko和尼科尔森，2010年），但有不到10个学位授予地球科学系在HBCU。然而，几个HBCU根据地球科学教学计划的分类提供相关的地球科学课程和学位（地球科学劳动力状况，2016）。从历史上看，大多数非洲裔美国人谁选择在研究生阶段的地球科学途径，谁成为执业地球科学家或算作劳动力的一部分，在HBCU接受本科培训。认识到各级教育都存在着在地球科学领域招聘、培训和留住代表性不足的少数群体的障碍，需要做出协调一致的持续努力，增加地球科学和相关科学领域的族裔多样性，并了解为什么少数群体学生选择进入这一学科。NOBCCHE（全国黑人化学家和化学工程师促进组织），BEYA，仅举几例，组织，政府和私人实体将在为期一天的研讨会期间召开会议，为持续努力加强HBCU之间的地球科学（和STEM）教育和研究奠定基础，以促进这些机构？第二部分从各方面来看，获得科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）本科和高级学位的非裔美国人人数都不成比例地低。根据美国物理研究所的一份报告（Czujko和Nicholson，2010年），物理学和地球科学在吸引和留住非裔美国学生的能力方面一直在所有学科中排名垫底。为了解决这个普遍存在的问题，国家技术协会（NTA）与摩根州立大学合作，提议在2017年9月20日至22日在马里兰州的巴尔的摩举行的NTA第89届年会期间举办为期一天的研讨会。本次研讨会将提供一个论坛，召集地球科学和STEM利益相关者讨论HBCU在这些学科的教育，研究和劳动力的地位，促进合作努力，并建立一个有助于扩大参与的地球科学议程。2017年研讨会的目标是：-在STEM和非STEM学科的背景下，在地球科学学科，教育，研究和劳动力的参与者之间建立共同的理解。审查HBCUs内地球科学（和STEM）教育和研究的现状，同时考虑当前的差距和潜在的机会，从中可以建立行动议程。利用和利用参与相关地球科学和STEM活动的机构和个人利益相关者的专业知识，并记录经验教训以及最佳和新兴实践，以扩大参与。提出/提供一种跨学科的方法，作为在HBCUs内推进地球科学和更广泛的STEM倡议的框架。探讨各实体之间合作的前景和战略？学术机构，专业协会，联邦机构？加强HBCUs对扩大参与和包容性科学议程的贡献。