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.

该项目将满足提高经过培训以应对区域生态系统压力和退化的太平洋岛民的技术劳动力的迫切需求。该项目计划在五个少数派服务社区学院的太平洋岛民的海洋和环境科学培训：美国萨摩亚社区学院，密克罗尼西亚学院 - 密克罗尼西亚联邦州，马歇尔群岛学院，北玛丽安娜学院，北部玛丽安娜学院和帕拉社区学院的海洋和环境科学培训。这些岛屿及其人口的未来取决于当地资源经理，政策制定者，企业和利益相关者的技术技能和知识。该项目将支持对教师和学生的培训，以提高STEM学科中太平洋岛民的成功率，而STEM学科传统上一直很低。该项目建立在先前的高级技术教育项目的基础上，该项目有助于在太平洋岛屿的五个少数族裔社区学院建立海洋和环境计划。该项目的目的是发展和增加太平洋岛民在STEM技术职业中的参与。该项目旨在提供：1）增强区域相关的货币； 2）社区大学教师和中学教师的专业发展； 3）为学生学习。该项目将结合当地机构，企业和利益相关者的意见，这些意见已经确定了社区大学毕业生所需的关键技术技能，以填补政府，非政府组织和私营部门的职位。形成性和总结性评估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本岛服务，包括自然资源评估，管理，保护，恢复和韧性。该项目由高级技术教育计划资助，该计划的重点是推动国家经济的高级技术领域的技术教育。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估NSF的法定任务。