GOLD-EN EAGER: Bringing a diversity program to scale at the Jackson School of Geosciences

该项目的总体目标是设计和执行一项计划，以支持世界上最大的学术地球科学计划--德克萨斯大学杰克逊地球科学学院(JSG)的多样性冠军(DC)的发展。由于其目前缺乏多样性，其规模和正在研究的地球科学主题的广度，杰克逊学院提供了一个理想的测试案例，以了解和克服障碍，在全国其他地方扩大发展项目。PIs提出了一个为期两年的计划，旨在培训JSG中的教师、管理人员和研究科学家，使其成为DC。培训将包括一系列讲习班和活动，重点是对来自不同背景的学生进行有效指导，并了解扩大地球科学多样性的障碍。然后，发展中心将参加招生活动和研究，指导历史上代表性不足的学生的经验。同时，历史上代表性不足的学生将得到支持，重点是在学校范围内建立社区，以增强他们的研究体验。总体目标是出版研讨会材料，并为全国范围广泛的学术机构的未来DC创建可用的培训工具。该项目将通过培训和社会支持，围绕杰克逊地球科学学院(JSG)与地球科学多样性相关的问题，建立、正常化和增强社区的能力。PIs方法基于两个主题：1)从JSG现有的学者社区(包括教员和研究科学家)中识别、培训、支持和激励“多元化倡导者”(DC)；2)在JSG为URM本科生建立一个基本的支持计划，其中包括一系列旨在改善社区对学生及其导师/顾问的支持并减少研究导师所需支持的机会。在这两个主题的背景下，该项目将专注于确定和改善DC招募的障碍及其在计划中的成功完成，以及了解支持计划如何使历史上的UR学生受益。通过在一个大型地球科学研究计划中提供培训内部多样性冠军的工具和知识，PIS将为该计划的未来几代学生培养一支盟友队伍，并最终为地球科学界提供支持。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。

The overarching goal of this project is to design and execute a program to support the development of Diversity Champions (DC) at the largest academic geoscience program in the world, the Jackson School of Geosciences (JSG) at the University of Texas (UT). By virtue of its current lack of diversity, its size, and the breadth of geoscience topics being studied, the Jackson School presents an ideal test case to understand and overcome the barriers to upscaling development programs elsewhere across the country. The PIs propose a two-year program aimed at training faculty, administrators, and research scientists in the JSG to become DC. Training will consist of a series of workshops and activities focused on effective mentorship of students from diverse backgrounds and understanding the barriers for expanding diversity in geosciences. DCs will then participate in recruitment activities and a research mentoring experiences with historically underrepresented students. Simultaneously, the historically underrepresented students will be supported with a focus on building community across the school that enhances their research experience. The overarching goal is to publish workshop materials and create accessible training tools for future DC at a wide range of academic institutions across the nation.This project will build, normalize, and empower a community around issues related to diversity in the geosciences at the Jackson School of Geosciences (JSG) through training and social support. The PIs approach is based on two themes: 1) Identify, train, support and incentivize 'Diversity Champions' (DCs) from within the existing community of scholars at the JSG, including faculty and research scientists and 2) Build an underlying program of support for URM undergraduate students at the JSG that includes a range of activities and opportunities aimed at improving community support for students and their mentors/advisers and reducing the support needed by research mentors. In the context of the two themes, the project will focus on identifying and ameliorating the barriers to recruitment of DCs and their successful completion in the program as well as understanding how the program of support benefits historically UR students. By providing the tools and knowledge to train internal Diversity Champions at a large geoscience research program the PIs will produce a cadre of allies for future generations of students to the program, and ultimately the geoscience community.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.