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.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》（公法117-2）的全部或部分资助的。城市环境危害（例如城市洪水泛滥和城市热岛）对有色人种的种群不成比例。应对这些挑战的地球科学劳动力缺乏代表这些人群的多样性。堪萨斯城探索地球环境（KC E3）是从历史上被排除的社区的早期大学生的十个月队列经验。该计划旨在提高这些学生在地球科学中的参与和持久性，并支持一支准备应对环境危害和受到影响的人的更多样化的劳动力。 2年和4年大学生的KC E3队列将共同为当地的夏季高中社区计划，堪萨斯城青少年峰会开发研究项目，以调查环境危害及其对城市景观的影响。制定和领导高中夏季计划的共同挑战将激励KC E3参与者互相支持，并将其主题专业知识应用于对正在过渡到大学的参与者的支持环境中的现实世界挑战。计划优势将被确定为在KC E3中得到加强，并用作类似位置的程序的模型。 堪萨斯城探索地球和环境（KC E3）将招募从历史上排除的社区招募早期的大学生，这些社区被招募成2年和4年大学（2YC，4YC）参加十个月的队列计划。来自STEM和学生成功背景的导师将在参与者开发并领导一项为支持有色学生的当地非营利性夏季计划（堪萨斯城青少年峰会）的询问活动时提供支持。创建研究活动以帮助年轻学生收集和分析有关当地相关环境危害的数据的统一挑战（例如，极端降雨，城市洪水，城市热岛，水和空气质量）将鼓励KC E3参与者发展支持的群体，并积极进取，以利用主题知识，同时又致力于支持与参与大学的支持者，同时又致力于为大学提供支持。具体而言，KC E3旨在提高对地球科学对学生在大学职业生涯初期的地球科学相关性的意识，并增加历史上通过地球科学学位排除社区的学生的持久性，并授予NSF的法定任务，反映出值得评估的企业的范围，这一奖项已被认为是构成的范围。