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、发展与研究活跃实验室的关系以及对等指导，为拉丁裔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，以确保保留人才。这些项目寻求建立一种可转移的、可持续的模式，通过密歇根州立大学（MSU）、东北伊利诺伊大学（NEIU）和GeoLatinas（以拉丁裔为重点的组织）之间基于深度信任和平等的合作，加强拉丁裔在地球科学领域的参与和保留。这项工作将建立包容性的制度结构，为拉丁裔学生进入密歇根州立大学和其他大学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增强多样性，从而在研究生阶段留住学生，并在学生进入地球科学相关职业时建立支持系统。拉丁裔学生在地球科学领域的代表性严重不足。到目前为止，该项目有四个目标：1。招收不同学科的拉丁裔本科生进入地球科学研究生院；2. 支持社会化进入研究生院和地球科学职业；3. 通过日常的实地和虚拟互动进行指导；和4。促进拉丁学者进入并参与地球科学工作队伍。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。所有三个伙伴组织将合作实现这些目标。所有学科的本科生/应届毕业生将通过在NEIU的研讨会、在MSU的类似研究生的研究体验以及在GeoLatinas的专注于指导、专业和个人发展的虚拟互动，接触到地球科学研究生的机会。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知识价值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.