Collaborative Research: NSF INCLUDES Alliance: Broadening Career Pathways in Food, Energy, and Water Systems with and within Native American Communities (Native FEWS Alliance)

土著FEWS（粮食，能源，水系统）联盟的重点是创新研究和社区伙伴关系，将两个相互关联的挑战联系起来：土著社区获得粮食，能源和水的危机;以及土著居民有限的教育和职业途径来解决这些需求。受到气候变化、持续的COVID-19大流行和部落土地污染负面影响的土著人人数不成比例，这表明迫切需要有效的解决方案。目前，美国原住民和其他代表性不足的学生从事环境职业的机构途径有限。加州大学伯克利分校、亚利桑那大学和美国印第安人高等教育联合会将与20多个合作伙伴合作，显著扩大美洲原住民和其他代表性不足的学生群体的参与机会以及研究和实践培训生态系统。一个重点将是学生谁拥有，那些谁寻求，必要的培训和准备，以解决这些关键的挑战。通过采用与文化相关的方法（由各级教育合作伙伴成功制定和评价），联盟将制定课程和指导指南，举办讲习班，调整和采用最佳做法，并分享成果。这些活动将使全国各地的机构能够获得土著饥荒预警系统的教育和辅导材料。扩大参与将产生更大的思想多样性，并产生适用于当地社区的文化相关的可持续解决方案，但可以作为更广泛应用的基础。主流科学和技术计划迄今为止在应对土著在粮食，能源，水系统（FEWS）的关系方面的挑战方面效果不佳，并且没有充分服务或参与土著社区。其结果是土著青年的社会疏远和职业边缘化加深。土著FEWS联盟将把基于地点的教学方法和多样性与应用研究和土著知识相结合，以改变FEWS教育，使其与土著社区更加相关。实施计划的目的是产生更成功的招聘，入学，保留和学位获得的结果。通过汇集在拓宽土著学生途径方面有着良好记录的多个教育机构和利益攸关方的资源、专门知识和经验，联盟将建立一个网络改进社区，以实现以下相互关联的目标：解决土著社区面临的紧急FEWS挑战;共同开发综合的、土著的、基于地方的FEWS课程、指导和实践经验;转变机构科学和技术领域，使其与土著社区相关并可供土著社区使用;招募、留住土著学生并使其毕业，以便在FEWS接受高等教育和从事职业，并将他们的知识带回社区。联盟倡议将得到严格的评估和传播，为招聘，教学和指导美洲原住民学生和专业人员的有效做法的研究基础提供新的知识，并建立道德，有效的共同设计的伙伴关系。传播的形式将包括出版物、案例研究、课程、指南、网络研讨会、播客和多媒体资源，供土著利益相关者使用，并教育更广泛的可持续性科学社区。NSF INCLUDES联盟由NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science资助。（NSF INCLUDES）是一项综合性的国家倡议，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，并由生物基础设施部生物科学理事会共同资助，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。

The Native FEWS (Food, Energy, Water Systems) Alliance is focused on innovative research and community partnerships linking two interconnected challenges: a crisis in access to food, energy, and water in Indigenous communities; and limited educational and career pathways available to Indigenous populations to address these needs. The disproportionate number of Indigenous people who have being negatively impacted by climate change, the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, and pollution on tribal lands demonstrate the urgent need for effective solutions. Currently, there are limited institutional pathways for Native Americans and other underrepresented students to pursue environmental careers. The University of California at Berkeley, University of Arizona and American Indian Higher Education Consortium will work with over 20 partners to significantly broaden the opportunities for participation and the ecosystem of research and practice training by and for Native Americans and other underrepresented student groups. A focus will be on students who possess, and those who seek, the necessary training and preparation to address these critical challenges. Through the application of culturally-relevant approaches (successfully developed and evaluated by partners at all levels of the educational continuum), the Alliance will develop curricula and mentoring guides, offer workshops, adapt and adopt best practices, and share results. These activities will enable institutions across the country to access Native FEWS educational and mentoring materials. Broadening participation will produce greater diversity of thought and generate culturally relevant sustainable solutions that are applicable to local communities yet can be used as a basis for applications more broadly.Mainstream science and technology programs have to date been ineffective in responding to Indigenous challenges at the nexus of food, energy, water systems (FEWS), and do not adequately serve or engage Indigenous communities. The result is a deepening of social alienation and professional marginalization of Indigenous youth. The Native FEWS Alliance will integrate place-based approaches to teaching and diversity with applied research and Indigenous knowledges to transform FEWS education to be more relevant to Indigenous communities. The implementation plan is designed to produce more successful recruitment, matriculation, retention, and degree attainment outcomes. By bringing together the resources, expertise and experiences of multiple educational institutions and stakeholders who all share a proven track record in widening pathways for Indigenous students, the Alliance will develop a Networked Improvement Community to achieve the following interrelated goals: Address urgent FEWS challenges in Indigenous communities; Co-develop integrated, Indigenous, place-based FEWS curricula, mentoring, and practice experiences; Transform institutional science and technology fields to be relevant and accessible to Indigenous communities; and Recruit, retain and graduate Indigenous students to pursue higher education and careers in FEWS and bring their knowledge back to their communities. Alliance initiatives will be rigorously evaluated and disseminated, contributing new knowledge to the research base of effective practices in recruiting, teaching, and mentoring Native American students and professionals, and in building ethical, effective co-designed partnerships. The forms of dissemination will include publications, case studies, curricula, guidebooks, webinars, podcasts and multimedia resources for Indigenous stakeholders and to educate the wider sustainability science communities.This NSF INCLUDES Alliance 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 and co-funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure, and the Division of Environmental Biology.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.