NSF INCLUDES Planning Grant: Planning for an Alliance on Social Justice, Science, and the Environment

这项NSF INCLUDES规划拨款由美国国家科学基金会全国工程和科学领域未被充分代表的发现者学习者社区（NSF INCLUDES）资助，这是一项全面的国家倡议，旨在通过关注多样性、包容性和扩大STEM的大规模参与来增强美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位。加州大学系统内研究生课程学生的人口统计数据并不能反映加州的总体人口。加州大学圣地亚哥分校的跨学科环境研究项目（PIER）是这一整体模式的一个例外，该项目中代表性不足的少数族裔（URM）学生的参与程度超过了母系。规划项目活动加强了加州大学圣地亚哥分校与选定的加州州立大学校园之间的关系，以及参与PIER的部门之间的关系。这项工作进一步发展了跨学科研究和PIER计划，作为扩大STEM博士教育参与的机制。这些活动还邀请了PIER项目的几位初级教师，为他们提供了一个机会，在国家努力中发挥自己的作用，以提高STEM教育的参与度。该规划项目重点关注NSF的所有五个协作基础设施要素：共同愿景、伙伴关系、目标和指标、领导和沟通、扩展、可持续性和规模。规划项目的活动建立了新的合作伙伴关系，并加强了现有的合作伙伴关系，跨加州州立大学各个校区和加州大学圣地亚哥分校PIER项目的项目。核心活动是一个研讨会，将这些不同的团体聚集在一起。这个研讨会，以及之前和之后的活动，具有智力价值，因为它汇集了关于PIER成功的数据，PIER校友职业成功的障碍，以及加州州立大学本科生进入研究生院所经历的障碍。研讨会探讨了可以实施的具体干预措施，以克服这些障碍，以及跨学科研究作为克服阻碍STEM和STEM相关领域更广泛参与的挑战的机制的优点。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 NSF INCLUDES planning grant is funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale. The demographics of students in graduate programs within the University of California system do not reflect the overall population of California. The Program for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research (PIER) at the University of California (UC) San Diego is an exception to this overall pattern, with underrepresented minority (URM) student participation in the program exceeding that of the parent departments. The planning project activities enhance relationships between University of California, San Diego and select California State University campuses, as well as between departments participating in PIER. This work further develops interdisciplinary research and the PIER program as mechanisms for broadening participation in PhD STEM education. The activities also engage several junior faculty in the PIER program, providing them an opportunity to develop their roles within the national effort to increase participation in STEM education. This planning project focuses on all five of the NSF INCLUDES elements of the collaborative infrastructure: Shared vision, partnerships, goals and metrics, leadership and communication, and expansion, sustainability, and scale. The activities of the planning project establish new partnerships, and strengthen existing partnerships, across programs at various California State University campuses and the UC San Diego PIER program. The core activity is a workshop to bring together these various groups. This workshop, and the activities that precede and follow it, have intellectual merit through the aggregation of data on the success of PIER, barriers to the professional success of PIER alumni, and obstacles to graduate school experienced by California State University undergraduates. The workshop explores specific interventions that can be implemented to overcome these obstacles, and the merit of interdisciplinary research as a mechanism for overcoming challenges that prevent broader participation in STEM and STEM-dependent fields.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.