Sustaining URGE (Unlearning Racism in Geosciences)

在地球科学中忘却种族主义（URGE）是一个社区范围内的期刊阅读和政策设计课程，以帮助地球科学家忘却种族主义，提高地球科学中的归属感，可访问性，正义，公平，多样性和包容性（成为JEDI）。地球科学仍然是最不多样化的科学领域之一，尽管经过几十年的努力，该学科的人口结构几乎没有变化。该协会的主要目标是：（1）加深社区对种族主义对黑人、棕色人种、土著人和有色人种参与和保留地球科学的影响的认识;（2）利用现有文献、专家意见和个人经验制定反种族主义政策和战略;（3）分享，在一个活跃的社区网络和国家舞台上讨论和修改反种族主义政策和战略。本提案支持两性平等促请小组的社区促进活动（例如，虚拟会议和活动），项目开发和运行的文件记录，以及地球科学界对URGE的响应总结。这些数据对于以后的研究很重要，这些研究的重点是确定是什么使JEDI计划成功。这些数据还将使我们能够评估URGE的结构和课程是否会导致有效的反种族主义政策和战略，以及参与该计划的机构和组织的短期和长期变化。在地球科学中消除种族主义（URGE）是一个社区范围内的期刊阅读和政策设计课程，以帮助地球科学家消除种族主义并改善所有社区的纪律。该组织的主要结构是将地球科学界聚集在一起，参加一个旨在教育、提供专家意见和起草地球科学领域反种族主义政策和战略的课程。在八个为期两周的会议中，地球科学家涵盖了种族主义的不同主题，包括身份，历史，正义，可访问性，包容性和问责制。每个会议都包括特定于会议主题的可交付成果，并由每个小组通过使用所提供的文献中的知识、该领域专家的访谈、小组讨论和更广泛的社区范围内的讨论来开发。敦促两性平等运动将遵循这一为期16周的课程，审查和提炼社区制定的政策，促进各机构的政策会议，并在全国会议上传播调查结果。项目人员将使用经过验证的调查工具的修改版本分析在16周URGE会议结束时收集的数据，这些工具侧重于评估行为变化和对改善归属感，可访问性，正义，公平，多样性和包容性的态度（Be A JEDI）。随后将进行纵向调查，以评估URGE方案的长期影响。项目人员还将分析URGE参与者的数据，以更好地了解谁参加了该计划，以及未来可能需要做些什么工作，以将更多的多数身份带入URGE等计划。该奖项反映了NSF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，被认为值得支持。

Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (URGE) is a community-wide journal-reading and policy-design curriculum to help geoscientists unlearn racism and improve belonging, accessibility, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (Be A JEDI) in Geoscience. The geosciences remain one of the least diverse of the science fields with little change in the demographics of the discipline despite decades of effort. URGE’s primary objectives are to (1) deepen the community’s knowledge of the effects of racism on the participation and retention of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and People of Color in Geoscience, (2) draw on existing literature, expert opinions, and personal experiences to develop anti-racist policies and strategies, and (3) share, discuss and modify anti-racist policies and strategies within a dynamic community network and on a national stage. This proposal supports the community facilitation activities of URGE (e.g., virtual meetings and events), documentation of the development and operations of the program, and summarization of the response of the Geoscience community to URGE. These data are important for later studies focused on identifying what makes Be A JEDI initiatives successful. The data will also allow us to assess whether the structure and curriculum of URGE lead to effective anti-racist policies and strategies and significant short and long-term changes at the institutions and organizations that participated in the program.Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (URGE) is a community-wide journal-reading and policy-design curriculum to help geoscientists unlearn racism and improve the discipline for all communities. URGE’s main structure brings together the geoscience community to participate in a curriculum designed to educate, provide expert opinions, and draft anti-racist policies and strategies in the geosciences. Throughout eight two-week sessions, geoscientists cover different topics on racism, including identity, history, justice, accessibility, inclusivity, and accountability. Each session includes deliverables specific to the session’s topic and developed by each group through the use of knowledge from provided literature, interviews from experts in the field, group discussions, and broader community-wide discourse. URGE will follow this sixteen-week curriculum by reviewing and distilling the policies developed by the community, facilitating policy meetings at institutions, and disseminating the findings at national conferences. Project personnel will analyze data collected at the end of the sixteen-week URGE session using modified versions of validated survey tools that focus on assessing behavior change and attitudes towards improving belonging, accessibility, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (Be A JEDI). This will be followed by longitudinal surveys to evaluate the long-term impacts of the URGE program. Project personnel will also analyze data on URGE participants to better understand who took part in the program and what work may need to be done in the future to bring in more majority identities into programs like URGE.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.