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

该NSF INCLUDES规划拨款由NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science（NSF INCLUDES）资助，这是一项全面的国家计划，旨在通过关注多样性，包容性和扩大STEM的参与来加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的学生人口统计数据并不反映加州的总人口。在跨学科环境研究（PIER）在加州（UC）圣地亚哥大学的计划是一个例外，这一整体模式，与代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生参与该计划超过了家长部门。规划项目活动加强了加州大学圣地亚哥分校和部分加州州立大学校区之间的关系，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，作为扩大博士STEM教育参与的机制。这些活动还吸引了PIER计划的几名初级教师，为他们提供了在国家努力中发挥作用的机会，以增加STEM教育的参与。这个规划项目的重点是所有五个NSF包括协作基础设施的要素：共同愿景，伙伴关系，目标和指标，领导和沟通，以及扩展，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，在各个加州州立大学校园和加州大学圣地亚哥分校PIER计划的计划。核心活动是举办一个讲习班，将这些不同的群体聚集在一起。这个研讨会，以及之前和之后的活动，通过对PIER的成功，PIER校友的专业成功的障碍，以及加州州立大学本科生经历的研究生院的障碍的数据汇总，具有智力价值。研讨会探讨了克服这些障碍的具体干预措施，以及跨学科研究作为克服阻碍STEM和STEM依赖领域广泛参与的挑战的机制的价值。该奖项反映了NSF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.