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

部落学院和大学计划（TCUP）的一个目标是提高为美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（STEM）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，可以扩大学生在STEM领域追求具有挑战性、回报丰厚的职业的机会，为可能具有文化意义的领域提供研究，并鼓励社区和世代对科学和数学教育的欣赏。该项目通过传播在联邦资助下取得的成就和发现来支持这一目标，并增加对部落学院的认识和理解，以及它们在美国一部分土著公民的经济和社区发展中所起的作用。科学、技术、工程和数学现在是美国大多数部落控制的学院和大学课程中规模最大、最具活力的部分。虽然规模小，资金不足，但这些学院的毕业生准备在从电气工程到土著环境科学等领域工作或获得研究生学位。此外，所有这些大学都开创了将传统文化价值观、学生研究机会和社区发展项目纳入学位课程的STEM教育新方法。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种相对年轻的教育运动，许多美国人不知道它们的存在。即使是那些熟悉这些大学的人，也经常对它们迅速扩大的STEM项目的多样性和复杂性感到惊讶。该提案的目的是为了满足部落学院对STEM教育项目更高的国家意识的需求，此外，通过开发“土著科学报告”（Native Science Report）促进部落学院STEM教师之间的更多交流，这是一份新的在线期刊，专注于部落和土著服务学院和大学的STEM教育（nativesciencereport.org）。这个由西塞顿·瓦佩顿学院赞助的年轻出版物正在显著扩大其报道部落学院运动中STEM教育趋势的能力。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识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.