GP-GO: Building Latinx Pathways into Geoscience Graduate Education through R1-HSI-Nonprofit Collaborations

该项目将通过接触研究机会，与活跃的研究实验室发展关系，以及对等指导，为Latinx学生建立进入地球科学(地球、海洋和大气)的途径。加强多样性的努力必须解决系统性问题，以确保保留。私人投资机构寻求通过密歇根州立大学(密歇根州立大学；研究型大学)、东北伊利诺伊大学(NEIU；拉美裔服务机构)和GeoLatinas(专注于拉美裔组织)之间的合作，建立一个可转让的、可持续的模式，以加强拉美裔参与和保留地球科学领域的拉美裔人。这一努力将建立包容性的体制结构，为拉美裔学生进入密歇根州立大学和其他地方的地球科学研究生培训提供可持续的途径。这种结构改革的努力将通过促进包容性来加强多样性，导致在研究生一级留住学生，并在学生进入与地球科学有关的职业时建立支助系统。拉丁裔学生在地球科学领域的代表性严重不足。在这一点上，该项目涉及四个目标：1.从不同科学领域招收拉美裔本科生进入地球科学研究生院；2.支持研究生院和地球科学职业的社会化；3.通过常规的实地和虚拟互动进行指导；以及4.在拉美裔学者进入地球科学工作队伍并与之接触时促进他们的进步。活动以研究生社会化的四个阶段为基础，外加第五个幸福阶段。所有三个合作伙伴组织都将为实现这些目标而合作。所有科学领域的本科生/新近毕业的学生将通过NEIU的研讨会、密歇根州立大学的研究生式研究体验以及专注于指导、专业和个人发展的GeoLatinas虚拟互动，获得地球科学毕业生的机会。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。

This project will build pathways into geoscience (earth, oceanic, and atmospheric) for Latinx students through exposure to research opportunities, developing relationships with research active laboratories, and peer-to-peer mentoring. Efforts to enhance diversity must address systemic issues in order to ensure retention. The PIs seek to build a transferable, sustainable model for enhancing Latinx participation and retention in geoscience through collaboration – based in deep trust and equality – between Michigan State University (MSU; research university), Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU; Hispanic-serving institution), and GeoLatinas (Latinx-focused organization). This effort will build inclusive institutional structures that will provide sustainable pathways for Latinx students to enter graduate training in the geosciences, at MSU and beyond. This effort towards structural reform will enhance diversity through the promotion of inclusion, leading to retention at the graduate level and the establishment of support systems as students move into geoscience related careers. Latinx students are severely underrepresented in geoscience. To this point, the project addresses four goals: 1. Recruit Latinx undergraduates from diverse sciences into geoscience graduate school; 2. Support socialization into graduate school and geoscience careers; 3. Mentor via routine on-the-ground and virtual interactions; and 4. Advance Latinx scholars as they enter and engage with the geoscience workforce. Activities are grounded in four stages of Graduate Student Socialization, plus a fifth Wellbeing stage. All three partner organizations will collaborate to meet these goals. Undergraduates/recent graduates from all sciences will be exposed to geoscience graduate opportunities through workshops at NEIU, graduate-like research experiences at MSU, and GeoLatinas virtual interactions focused on mentoring and professional and personal development.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.