Enhanced Marine and Environmental Science Training for Pacific Island Community College Students

太平洋岛屿社区学院学生加强海洋和环境科学培训

• 批准号: 1954994
• 负责人: Robert Richmond
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-01 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1954994&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhanced; Marine; Environmental; Science; Training

This project will address a critical need to enhance the technical workforce of Pacific Islanders who are trained to address regional ecosystem stress and degradation. The project plans to strengthen and modernize the marine and environmental science training of Pacific Islanders at five minority-serving community colleges: American Samoa Community College, College of Micronesia – Federated States of Micronesia, College of the Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas College, and Palau Community College. The future of these islands and their populations depends on the technical skills and knowledge of local resource managers, policy makers, businesses and stakeholders. This project will support training of faculty and students to increase the success rate of Pacific Islanders in STEM disciplines, which has traditionally been low. This project builds on prior Advanced Technological Education projects that helped to establish the marine and environmental programs at the five minority-serving community colleges of the Pacific Islands. The goal of this project is to develop and increase the participation of Pacific Islanders in STEM technical careers. The project aims to provide: 1) enhanced regionally relevant curricula; 2) professional development for community college faculty and secondary school teachers; and 3) experiential learning for students. The project will incorporate input from local agencies, businesses, and stakeholders that have identified key technological skills needed by community college graduates to fill positions within the government, non-government organizations, and private sector. The formative and summative evaluation will use multiple methodologies sensitive to indigenous cultures. The technical skills and training obtained by students will allow them to serve their home islands in critical areas, including natural resource assessment, management, protection, restoration, and resilience. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation’s economy.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.

该项目将满足加强太平洋岛民技术劳动力的迫切需要，这些技术劳动力接受过应对区域生态系统压力和退化的培训。该项目计划在五所为少数族裔服务的社区学院加强太平洋岛民的海洋和环境科学培训并使之现代化：美属萨摩亚社区学院、密克罗尼西亚-密克罗尼西亚联邦学院、马歇尔群岛学院、北方马里亚纳学院和帕劳社区学院。这些岛屿及其人口的未来取决于当地资源管理人员、决策者、企业和利益攸关方的技术技能和知识。该项目将支持对教师和学生的培训，以提高太平洋岛民在科学、技术、工程和数学学科的成功率，这一成功率历来很低。该项目建立在先前的先进技术教育项目的基础上，这些项目帮助在太平洋岛屿的五个少数民族服务社区学院建立海洋和环境方案。该项目的目标是发展和增加太平洋岛民对STEM技术职业的参与。该项目旨在提供：1）加强与地区相关的课程; 2）社区学院教师和中学教师的专业发展;以及3）学生的经验学习。该项目将纳入当地机构，企业和利益相关者的投入，这些机构，企业和利益相关者已经确定了社区大学毕业生填补政府，非政府组织和私营部门职位所需的关键技术技能。形成性评价和总结性评价将使用对土著文化敏感的多种方法。学生获得的技术技能和培训将使他们能够在关键领域为自己的家乡岛屿服务，包括自然资源评估，管理，保护，恢复和复原力。该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。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。