Collaborative Research: Promoting Geoscience Research, Education, Success, and Equity Through Mentoring

合作研究：通过指导促进地球科学研究、教育、成功和公平

• 批准号: 2013323
• 负责人: Sarah Schanz
• 金额: $ 12.3万
• 依托单位: Colorado College
• 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: 2020-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2013323&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Promoting; Geoscience; Education

This project aims to serve the national interest by improving undergraduate geosciences education. It will do so by scaling up a successful mentoring program in the geosciences. Many of the most urgent challenges facing society are rooted in the geosciences, including issues related to energy, air quality, climate, water availability, food security, and natural disasters. Women, particularly those from minority racial and ethnic groups, continue to be largely underrepresented in the geosciences. As a result, the talent pool available to solve these challenges is limited. Female role models and mentors can play an important role in the lives of female students, especially when choosing and committing to a career path. This project aims to increase diversity in the geoscience workforce by scaling-up a mentoring program called PROGRESS (PROmoting Geoscience Research Education and SuccesS). PROGRESS provides professional development workshops, access to female mentors and role models, peer networks, and online discussions and resources. This award will fund workshops in seven regions of the U.S. with the goal of providing undergraduate women with the tools and skills needed to build successful geoscience careers.The project’s major goal is to scale up PROGRESS to include a larger number of regions, more diverse types of higher-educational institutions, and broadened participation of women from underrepresented and minoritized groups. The project team will build a U.S. network of support that spans at least seven geographic regions and a diversity of academic institutions. The project team will use a longitudinal experimental research design to answer the following research questions: 1) Do the benefits of PROGRESS scale up for multiple underrepresented groups and for women with intersectional identities? 2) Are the benefits of PROGRESS consistent when male mentors are included? 3) Can PROGRESS be effectively scaled-up using a train-the-trainer development and implementation model? The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Institutional and Community Transformation track, the program supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.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.

该项目旨在通过改进本科地球科学教育来服务于国家利益。它将通过在地球科学领域扩大一个成功的指导计划来做到这一点。社会面临的许多最紧迫的挑战植根于地球科学，包括与能源、空气质量、气候、水资源可获得性、粮食安全和自然灾害有关的问题。妇女，特别是来自少数族裔和族裔群体的妇女，在地球科学中的代表性仍然很低。因此，可用于解决这些挑战的人才库是有限的。女性榜样和导师可以在女学生的生活中发挥重要作用，特别是在选择和致力于职业道路时。该项目旨在通过扩大名为PROCESS(促进地球科学研究、教育和成功)的指导计划，增加地球科学工作人员的多样性。进步组织提供专业发展讲习班、接触女性导师和榜样、建立同行网络以及在线讨论和资源。该奖项将资助美国七个地区的研讨会，目的是为本科生女性提供建立成功的地球科学事业所需的工具和技能。该项目的主要目标是扩大进展，包括更多的地区，更多样化的高等教育机构，以及来自代表性不足和微区化群体的更广泛的女性参与。该项目团队将建立一个覆盖至少七个地理区域和不同学术机构的美国支持网络。项目团队将使用纵向实验研究设计来回答以下研究问题：1)进步的好处是否扩大到多个代表性不足的群体和具有交叉身份的女性？2)当包括男性导师时，进步的好处是否一致？3)能否通过培训培训者的发展和实施模式有效地扩大进展？NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。通过机构和社区转型轨道，该计划支持高等教育机构和学科社区转变和改进STEM教育的努力。该奖项反映了NSF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。

项目成果

Webs of science: mentor networks influence women's integration into STEM fields

• DOI: 10.1002/fee.2666
• 发表时间: 2023-07
• 期刊: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
• 影响因子: 10.3
• 作者: Paul R. Hernandez;M. Patterson;Juliet M. Nyanamba;A. Adams;R. Barnes;Brittany Bloodhart;M. Burt;Sandra Clinton;Ilana B. Pollack;Emily V. Fischer

Mentorship Builds Inclusivity and Belonging in the Geosciences

• DOI: 10.1029/2023eo230020
• 发表时间: 2023-01
• 期刊: Eos
• 作者: M. Burt;R. Barnes;S. Schanz;Sandra Clinton;Emily V. Fischer

Promoting sense of belonging and interest in the geosciences among undergraduate women through mentoring

• DOI: 10.1080/13611267.2023.2225395
• 发表时间: 2023-06-22
• 期刊: MENTORING & TUTORING
• 影响因子: 1.2
• 作者: Du, Wenyi;Hernandez, Paul R.;Fischer, Emily V.
• 通讯作者: Fischer, Emily V.