GP-UP: Kansas City Explores Earth and the Environment (KC E3) – A program to support early college URM student success through mentoring and community-focused inquiry

GP-UP：堪萨斯城探索地球与环境 (KC E3) — 该计划旨在通过指导和以社区为中心的探究来支持早期大学 URM 学生取得成功

• 批准号: 2119866
• 负责人: Alison Graettinger
• 金额: $ 30.75万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Kansas City
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2119866&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; UP; Kansas; City; Explores

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Urban environmental hazards such as urban flooding and urban heat island disproportionally affect populations of color. The geoscience workforce tackling these challenges lacks the respective diversity to represent these populations. Kansas City Explores Earth and Environment (KC E3) is a ten-month cohort experience for early college students from historically excluded communities. The program aims to increase participation and persistence of these students in the geosciences and support a more diverse workforce prepared to address environmental hazards and the people impacted by them. The KC E3 cohort of 2yr and 4yr college students will work together to develop a research project for a local summer high school community program, Kansas City Teen Summit, to investigate environmental hazards and their impact on urban landscapes. The shared challenge of developing and leading the high school summer program will motivate KC E3 participants to support each other and apply their subject matter expertise to real world challenges in a supportive environment for participants who are transitioning into college. Program strengths will be identified to be reinforced in KC E3 and be used as a model for programs in similar locations. Kansas City Explores Earth and Environment (KC E3) will recruit early college students, from historically excluded communities, who are enrolled in 2 yr and 4 yr colleges (2YC, 4YC) to participate in a ten-month cohort program. Mentors from STEM and student success backgrounds will support participants as they develop and lead an inquiry activity for a local non-profit summer program that supports students of color (Kansas City Teen Summit). The unifying challenge of creating a research activity to help younger students collect and analyze data on a locally relevant environmental hazards (e.g. extreme rainfall, urban flooding, urban heat island, water and air quality) will encourage the KC E3 participants to develop a supportive cohort, and be motivated to leverage subject matter knowledge, while working in a space focused on supporting participants with the transition into college. Specifically, KC E3 aims to improve the sense of belonging, self-efficacy, and appreciation of the relevance of geoscience for students early in their college career and to increase the persistence of students from historically excluded communities through geoscience degrees and into the workforce.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.

该奖项全部或部分由2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。城市环境危害，如城市洪水和城市热岛，会对有色人种产生不利影响。应对这些挑战的地球科学工作者缺乏代表这些群体的各自多样性。堪萨斯城探索地球和环境（KC E3）是一个为期十个月的队列经验，早期的大学生从历史上被排斥的社区。该计划旨在提高这些学生在地球科学领域的参与度和持久性，并支持更多样化的劳动力，以应对环境危害和受其影响的人。 KC E3队列的2年和4年的大学生将共同努力，为当地的夏季高中社区计划，堪萨斯城青少年峰会开发一个研究项目，以调查环境危害及其对城市景观的影响。开发和领导高中暑期课程的共同挑战将激励KC E3参与者相互支持，并将他们的主题专业知识应用于真实的世界挑战，为正在过渡到大学的参与者提供支持性环境。计划优势将在KC E3中得到加强，并用作类似地点计划的模型。 堪萨斯城探索地球和环境（KC E3）将招募早期的大学生，从历史上被排斥的社区，谁是2年制和4年制大学（2 YC，4 YC）注册参加一个为期十个月的队列计划。来自STEM和学生成功背景的导师将支持参与者，因为他们开发和领导当地非营利夏季计划的调查活动，支持有色人种学生（堪萨斯城青少年峰会）。创建一个研究活动，以帮助年轻的学生收集和分析当地相关的环境危害数据的统一挑战（例如极端降雨、城市洪水、城市热岛、水和空气质量）将鼓励KC E3参与者建立支持性队列，并有动力利用主题知识，同时在一个专注于支持参与者过渡到大学的空间工作。具体来说，KC E3旨在提高归属感，自我效能感，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响进行评估来支持审查标准。