NSF INCLUDES: Supporting Emerging Aquatic Scientists (SEAS) Islands Alliance

NSF 包括： 支持新兴水生科学家 (SEAS) 岛屿联盟

• 批准号: 1930998
• 负责人: Cherie Avent
• 金额: $ 61.35万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-11-01 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930998&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; Supporting; Emerging; Aquatic

Individuals from underrepresented and underserved groups comprise a disproportionately smaller percentage of STEM degrees and jobs compared to their percentages in the U.S. population. This is especially true in the geosciences where a mere 8% of the geoscience-related workforce is comprised of individuals from underserved and underrepresented minority groups. Island students have the potential to close this gap, especially if they are trained through culturally-relevant and place-based pathways programs. The NSF INCLUDES Islands Alliance will use a collective impact approach to: (1) build upon two successful NSF INCLUDES Design & Development Launch Pilots (DDLPs) in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam to establish a national network focused on coastal geoscience pathways in seven U.S. or U.S.-affiliated island jurisdictions (U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands) (2) empower youth, undergraduates, graduates, and post-graduate adults within the network through scientific and professional development trainings, mentorship, family support programs, and cohort-building activities to pursue their interests in the marine and environmental sciences, (3) connect partner organizations and individuals to each other and to additional resources, expertise, and mentors, through the creation of new island networks supported by the Islands Alliance Backbone Organization and Steering Committee, and (4) grow the larger NSF INCLUDES community by engaging with other INCLUDES DDLPs, Alliances, the NSF INCLUDES Coordination Hub, two professional societies (Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science, Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation, and the National Sea Grant College Program Network. Through a collective impact approach, the Islands Alliance will provide important new insights into how two aspects of identity construction (individual science identities and collective identities) affect student self-efficacy, interest, engagement, sense of belonging, and persistence in STEM. The ways that pathway and student development vary across different cultural settings and contexts will also be investigated. This is one of the first coordinated, collaborative efforts of it's kind envisaged to connect and include these underrepresented and underserved islands students in the nation's STEM enterprise. Significant future gains stand to be realized by this investment both for participants and national efforts to broaden participation in STEM. Inclusion of nuanced cultural expertise from diverse underrepresented minority (URM) and underserved populations is needed to broaden participation in the geosciences, including those living in U.S. territories and U.S.-affiliated islands. Island regions are strongly connected to the oceans that surround them and are among the country's most diverse communities with either majority or sizable populations who are URM in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Even so, few projects have attempted to collaborate with these communities to broaden participation of the STEM workforce. Over five years, the Islands Alliance will support 425 middle and high school students in summer & school year geoscience enrichment programs; 90 undergraduate students in early-career research and career experiences; 45 upper-level undergraduate and/or Masters students in an 8-week summer intensive Bridge to Graduate School Program; 20 Bridge Program students who will receive graduate training at partnering institutions (M.S. or Ph.D. level); and 25 Island Alliance Fellows in local workforce positions. The Alliance will document the progress of students along the pathway, and the supports provided to those students, to determine the components of our collective impact approach that promote student success across the pathway, as well as the development of scientific and collective identities among students. Studying the Islands Alliance progress toward broadening participation in these ways has broader impacts for the field. Inclusion of these underrepresented and underserved individuals will increase individual and cognitive diversity within the U.S. STEM workforce, leading to increased innovation and significant outcomes. The Islands Alliance will give participating partners and coastal communities agency to engage, address, and solve collective coastal problems and grow the national STEM workforce by increasing our understanding of context-specific, culturally-relevant best practices for engaging underrepresented and underserved groups in STEM. In addition, it will provide critical capacity building to three National Science Foundation Established Program's to Stimulate Competitive Research jurisdictions (USVI, Guam, and Puerto Rico) and resources to five historically black colleges and universities, Hispanic serving institutions, and other minority serving institutions, while advancing our understanding of collective impact models.This NSF INCLUDES Alliance is funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale. This Alliance is co-funded by the NSF INCLUDES program, the Directorate for Geoscience, the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP).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.

与他们在美国人口中所占的比例相比，来自代表性和服务不足群体的个人在STEM学位和工作中所占的比例要小得不成比例。在地球科学领域尤其如此，在与地球科学有关的劳动力中，只有8%由服务不足和代表性不足的少数群体的个人组成。岛屿学生有潜力缩小这一差距，特别是如果他们通过与文化相关的和基于地点的路径计划进行培训的话。NSF包括岛屿联盟将使用一种集体影响的方法：(1)在两个成功的NSF包括Design&amp；在美属维尔京群岛和关岛建立一个专注于沿海地球科学途径的国家网络(美属维尔京群岛、波多黎各、关岛、北马里亚纳群岛联邦、帕劳共和国、密克罗尼西亚联邦和马绍尔群岛共和国)(2)通过科学和专业发展培训、指导、家庭支持计划和群体建设活动，增强网络中的青年、本科生、毕业生和研究生的能力，以追求他们在海洋和环境科学方面的兴趣，(3)通过创建由岛屿联盟骨干组织和指导委员会支持的新的岛屿网络，将伙伴组织和个人彼此联系起来，并连接到更多的资源、专业知识和导师，以及(4)通过与包括DDLP、联盟、NSF包括协调中心、两个专业协会(芝加哥人/西班牙裔美国人促进会和科学、海岸和AMP中的印第安人)在内的其他组织接触，扩大NSF包括社区；河口研究联合会和国家海洋赠款学院方案网络。通过集体影响的方法，岛屿联盟将就身份构建的两个方面(个人科学身份和集体身份)如何影响学生的自我效能、兴趣、参与度、归属感和在STEM中的坚持性提供重要的新见解。途径和学生发展的方式不同的不同文化背景和背景也将被调查。这是第一批协调、合作的努力之一，旨在将这些代表不足、服务不足的岛屿学生联系起来，纳入国家的STEM事业。这项投资将在未来实现重大收益，无论是对参与者而言，还是对扩大参与科技教育管理的国家努力而言都是如此。为了扩大对地球科学的参与，包括那些生活在美国领土和美国附属岛屿上的人，需要纳入来自不同代表性不足的少数群体(URM)和服务不足的人群的细微差别的文化专业知识。岛屿地区与其周围的海洋紧密相连，是该国最多样化的社区之一，拥有大多数或相当大的人口，他们是科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)的最高层。即便如此，很少有项目尝试与这些社区合作，以扩大STEM劳动力的参与。在五年内，岛屿联盟将支持425名初中生参加暑期和学年地球科学丰富计划；90名本科生参加职业生涯早期研究和职业经历；45名高年级本科生和/或硕士学生参加为期8周的暑期强化攻读研究生院计划；20名将在合作机构接受研究生培训的桥梁计划学生；以及25名在当地劳动力岗位上的岛屿联盟研究员。该联盟将记录沿途学生的进展和向这些学生提供的支持，以确定我们的集体影响方法的组成部分，以促进学生在整个过程中取得成功，以及在学生中发展科学和集体认同。研究岛屿联盟在以这些方式扩大参与方面取得的进展，将对该领域产生更广泛的影响。纳入这些代表性不足和服务不足的人将增加美国STEM劳动力中的个人和认知多样性，导致更多的创新和重大成果。岛屿联盟将为参与伙伴和沿海社区提供一个参与、解决和解决集体沿海问题的机构，通过增进我们对在STEM中参与代表性不足和服务不足群体的具体情况、文化相关性的最佳做法的了解，增加国家STEM工作人员。此外，它将为三个国家科学基金会建立的计划提供关键的能力建设，以刺激具有竞争力的研究司法管辖区(USVI、关岛和波多黎各)，并向五所历史上的黑人学院和大学、西班牙裔服务机构和其他少数群体服务机构提供资源，同时促进我们对集体影响模型的理解。该NSF包括联盟由NSF在全国范围内纳入未被充分代表的工程和科学发现者的学习社区(NSF Includes)资助，NSF Includes是一项综合性的国家倡议，旨在通过关注多样性、包容性和扩大对STEM的参与来加强美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位。该联盟由美国国家科学基金会、地球科学理事会、已建立的激励竞争性研究计划(EPSCoR)和历史黑人学院和大学本科生计划(HBCU-UP)共同资助。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。