GP-IMPACT: GEODES - GEOsciences Diversity, Excellence, and Support Program

地球科学多样性，卓越性和支持（GEODES）是一个旨在提高UCSC地球和行星科学系中代表性不足的学生的保留率和成功率的项目，这是美国地球科学的一个持续挑战。该计划提供持续的指导，网络，可靠的和最新的信息，关于职业道路和机会，以及专业发展。该项目将提高进入该专业的学生的保留率，确保EPS部门更多元化的学生群体获得积极和富有成效的体验，并帮助学生从本科学习过渡到研究生学习及以后的学习。最终，该项目将减少地球和行星科学系本科生在毕业率、课程成功率和总体GPA方面的差距，并增加我们主要的西班牙裔学生进入研究生院和/或地球科学劳动力的准备和转移。第二部分GEODES的目标是减少澳大在通过课程、总体GPA、研究生入学方面的差异，并改善澳大和非澳大专业的就业安置。为了实现这一目标，我们将专注于澳门大学的学术支持，并在地球科学界建立归属感。具体而言，GEODES将专注于三项活动：(1)创建一个基于队列的支持计划，以UM学生为目标，称为GEOACE，模仿UCSC成功的学术卓越（ACE）计划，该计划显著提高了UM的保留率和STEM导论课程的GPA。参加GEOACE的学生将获得额外的学术支持（技能研讨会、基于EPS课程的问题解决会议和专业发展建议）。(2)为澳大学生提供带薪暑期实习机会，让他们接触地球科学工作选择，培养技能和人脉，帮助他们找到工作或帮助他们进入研究生院。(3)通过GeoSlugs Lounge Program建立地球科学学生社区和近同伴支持系统。对所有EPS本科生开放，休息室将是一个温馨的空间，可以聚集，发展友谊，并获得研究生的辅导和指导（指导，课程相关问题的解决以及一般建议和支持）。GEOACE教师和Lounge导师将通过ACE接受教学法培训。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。

Part 1GEOsciences Diversity, Excellence, and Support (GEODES) is a program designed to increase retention and success of under-represented students in the Earth and Planetary Science Department at UCSC, an ongoing challenge for the Earth sciences in the USA. The program provides sustained mentoring, networking, reliable and current information about career paths and opportunities, as well as and professional development. This program will improve retention of students entering the major, ensure a positive and productive experience of a more diverse group of students in the EPS department and help students make the transitions from undergraduate to graduate study and beyond. Ultimately, this program will reduce disparities in graduation rate, course success, and overall GPA among Earth and Planetary Science Department under-represented undergraduates and increase the preparation and transfer of our primarily Hispanic under-represented students to graduate school and/or the geoscience workforce.Part 2 GEODES goals are to reduce disparities in UM outcomes in passing courses, overall GPA, graduate school admission, and to improve job placement for UM and non-UM majors. To accomplish this goal, we will focus on UM academic support and building a sense of belonging within the Earth science community. Specifically, GEODES will focus on three activities: (1) Create a cohort-based support program, targeted to UM students called GEOACE, modeled on UCSC's successful Academic Excellence (ACE) program which has significantly increased UM retention and GPA in introductory STEM courses. Students in GEOACE will receive extra academic support (skills workshops, EPS course-based problem-solving sessions and professional development advising). (2) Offer a paid summer internship to UM students to expose them to geoscience work options and develop skills and connections to help them get jobs or aid in admission to graduate school. (3) Foster a geoscience student community and near-peer support system via a GeoSlugs Lounge Program. Open to all EPS undergraduate students, the Lounge will be a welcoming space to gather, develop friendships and get tutoring and mentoring from graduate students (guided, course-related problem solving as well as general advice and support). GEOACE instructors and Lounge tutor/mentors will receive pedagogy training through ACE.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.