Native Science Report: Strengthening STEM Education and Research Within Tribal and Native-Serving Colleges

部落学院和大学方案的一个目标是提高为全国土著学生服务的特定高等教育机构的科学、技术、工程和数学教学和研究能力。在这些机构扩大基于学科的研究和STEM课程，扩大了学生在STEM领域追求具有挑战性和回报的职业生涯的机会，为可能具有文化意义的领域提供了研究，并鼓励社区和一代人对科学和数学教育的欣赏。该项目通过传播在联邦资助下实现的学院的成就和研究成果来支持这一目标，并增加对部落学院及其在国家土著公民的经济和社区发展中的作用的认识和理解。现在，在全国大部分部落控制的学院和大学里，数学和数学是课程中最大和最有活力的部分。虽然规模小，资金不足，这些学院是毕业生准备工作或获得研究生学位的领域，从电气工程到本土环境科学。此外，所有人都在开创STEM教育的新方法，将传统文化价值观，学生研究机会和社区发展项目纳入他们的学位课程。 然而，在部落学院之外工作的人很少意识到这些成就。由于部落学院代表了一个相对年轻的教育运动，许多美国人不知道他们的存在。即使是那些熟悉大学的人也经常对他们迅速扩大的STEM项目的多样性和复杂性感到惊讶。 该提案的目的是解决需要更大的国家意识的STEM教育计划在部落学院，此外，通过本土科学报告，一个新的在线杂志，专注于STEM教育部落和本土服务的学院和大学（nativesciencereport.org）的发展，以促进部落学院STEM教师之间的更多沟通。 这份年轻的出版物由Sisseton瓦佩顿学院赞助，正在显著扩大其报道部落学院运动中STEM教育趋势的能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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 discipline-based research and STEM curricular offerings at these institutions expands the opportunities of their students to pursue challenging, rewarding careers in STEM fields, provides for research studies in areas that may be culturally significant, and encourages a community and generational appreciation for science and mathematics education. This project supports that goal by disseminating the achievements and findings of the colleges that have been realized with federal funding, and to increase the knowledge and understanding of tribal colleges and their role in economic and community development for a subset of the Nation's Native citizens.Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics now represent the largest and most dynamic parts of the curriculum within most of the nation's tribally controlled colleges and universities. While small and underfunded, these colleges are graduating students ready to work or earn graduate degrees in fields ranging from electrical engineering to Native environmental science. Additionally, all are pioneering new approaches to STEM education by incorporating traditional cultural values, student research opportunities, and community development projects into their degree programs. However, few people working outside of the tribal colleges are aware of these accomplishments. Because tribal colleges represent a relatively young educational movement, many Americans do not know they exist. Even those familiar with the colleges are often surprised by the diversity and sophistication of their rapidly expanding STEM programs. The purpose of this proposal is to address the need for greater national awareness of STEM education programs within tribal colleges and, additionally, to promote greater communication between tribal college STEM faculty through the development of Native Science Report , a new online journal focusing on STEM education within tribal and Native-serving colleges and universities (nativesciencereport.org). This young publication, which is sponsored by Sisseton Wahpeton College, is significantly expanding its capacity to report on trends in STEM education within the tribal college movement.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.