NSF INCLUDES Planning Grant: A Collaboration of Tribal Colleges, Professional Organizations and Four-Year Degree-Granting Universities to Advance Native American Students in STEM

美国STEM劳动力的增长对经济和全球竞争力至关重要。为了增加劳动力，需要在社会各部门中培养STEM人才。这个计划拨款项目包括一个由美国印第安人科学与工程组织、Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish学院和北达科他大学的专家组成的领导小组。项目负责人将与纳瓦霍技术学院、西南印第安理工学院、马斯科吉民族学院、萨利什库特奈学院、亚利桑那州立大学、新墨西哥大学、俄克拉荷马州立大学、俄克拉荷马州立大学、蒙大拿州立大学和美国印第安人高等教育联盟（AIHEC）合作，共同建设一个协作基础设施。该计划拨款有两个主要目标：一是建立一个核心合作伙伴小组，利用最佳实践为美国印第安人STEM本科学生转学模型的发展提供信息；二是建立一个全国性的合作伙伴网络，这些合作伙伴将采用该模型，从战略上解决美国印第安人STEM学生从两年制大学成功转学到四年制大学的问题。通过实现这两个目标，合作者将准备创建一个联盟，大型网络或中心，以适应和实施美国印第安人STEM学生在全国范围内的大规模转学模式。参与的学院和大学将进行配对合作，以促进关系、沟通和共同愿景的发展，以及建立在现有转移支持实践基础上的有效伙伴关系模式。所有合作机构和组织将在项目期间举行四次会议，以实现项目目标。项目完成后，合作伙伴计划与美国所有部落学院和大学合作，并与现有的NSF INCLUDES网络成员建立联系并利用资源。计划中的会议将为来自合作学院、大学和组织的代表提供一个论坛，以建立一个文化上合适的合作基础设施：扩大伙伴关系，使其包括广泛的组织和机构；建立共同的目标和指标；巩固领导结构；建立和改善合作伙伴之间的沟通；并扩大工作规模。这项NSF INCLUDES计划拨款由NSF的“工程和科学领域未被充分代表的发现者的学习者全国社区包容计划”（NSF INCLUDES）资助，该计划是一项全面的国家倡议，旨在通过关注多样性来提高美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位。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智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。

The growth of the United States STEM workforce is important to economic and global competitiveness. Developing STEM talent among all sectors of society is needed in order to grow the workforce. This planning grant project includes a leadership team of experts from the American Indian Science and Engineering organization, Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College and the University of North Dakota. The project leaders will engage Navajo Technical College, the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, the College of Muscogee Nation, Salish Kootenai College, Arizona State University, the University of New Mexico, Oklahoma State University, the University of Oklahoma, Montana State University and the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), to build a collaborative infrastructure. The planning grant has two primary goals: To engage a core group of partners to inform the development of a Native American Indian STEM undergraduate student transfer model using best practices, and to develop a national network of partners who will adopt the model to strategically address the successful transfer of Native American Indian STEM students from two-year to four-year institutions. By addressing both goals, the collaborators will be prepared to create an alliance, large-scale network or center for adapting and implementing the Native American Indian STEM student transfer model at scale across the country. The participating colleges and universities will be engaged in paired collaborations to facilitate relationships, communication and the development of the shared vision and the partnership model that is functional and builds upon existing transfer support practices. All of the partnering institutions and organizations will meet four times during the project duration to address the project goals. By the completion of the project, the partners plan to engage all tribal colleges and universities in the US, and to connect and leverage resources with members of the existing NSF INCLUDES network. The planned meetings will provide a forum for representatives from partnering colleges, universities and organizations to build a culturally appropriate collaborative infrastructure: To develop a shared vision; to expand the partnerships to include a broad community of organizations and institutions; to establish shared goals and metrics; to solidify the leadership structure; to establish and improve communication across the partners; and to scale or expand the work.This NSF INCLUDES planning grant is funded by the NSF’s Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science program (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 scaleThis 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.