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

这项NSF包括计划拨款由NSF纳入全国工程和科学领域未被充分代表的发现者的学习社区(NSF Includes)资助，这是一项综合性的全国性倡议，旨在通过关注多样性、包容性和扩大对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)是这种总体模式的一个例外，参加该项目的人数不足的少数族裔(URM)学生超过了上级部门。规划项目活动加强了加州大学圣地亚哥分校和选定的加州州立大学校区之间的关系，以及参与Pier的各部门之间的关系。这项工作进一步发展了跨学科研究和PIER计划，作为扩大博士生STEM教育参与度的机制。这些活动还吸引了几名初级教员参加PIER计划，为他们提供了一个机会，让他们在国家努力增加STEM教育参与度的过程中发挥自己的作用。该规划项目关注NSF的所有五个要素，包括协作基础设施的要素：共同愿景、伙伴关系、目标和指标、领导力和沟通，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，并加强了加州州立大学各校区的项目和加州大学圣地亚哥码头项目的现有合作伙伴关系。核心活动是一个研讨会，将这些不同的团体聚集在一起。通过汇总有关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学校的障碍，这一研讨会以及之前和之后的活动具有学术价值。研讨会探讨了可以实施的克服这些障碍的具体干预措施，以及跨学科研究作为一种机制的优点，以克服阻碍更广泛参与STEM和STEM依赖领域的挑战。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 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.