HSI Institutional Transformation Project: Center for Equitable Environmental Sciences

HSI 机构转型项目：公平环境科学中心

• 批准号: 2225238
• 负责人: Dolores Inés Casillas
• 金额: $ 300万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-15 至 2027-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2225238&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSI; Institutional; Transformation; Project; Center

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 3 HSI Institutional Transformation Project (ITP): Center for Equitable Environmental Sciences (CEES), aims to improve retention of students from groups underrepresented in STEM majors. Both first-year and transfer students who share these identities disproportionately leave declared STEM majors without a meaningful internship experience. Maintaining students from diverse backgrounds in STEM majors is a key step to building the next generation of environmental leaders. By foregrounding the linkages between science and society, STEM faculty at UCSB and Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) will generate innovative approaches to STEM education and novel research questions about the societal implications of science and technology. Finally, CEES will disseminate STEM education best practices to HSI communities through publications and conference presentations. This project will use the theme of environmental justice to facilitate the formation of intersectional STEM identities through a new Center for Equitable Environmental Sciences housed within the UCSB Chicano Studies Institute to provide mentoring, learning communities, and placement in STEM internships. Culturally relevant mentoring coupled with learning communities will enhance student experiences by fostering a greater sense of belonging within STEM majors. In collaboration with the Career Services Center, it will develop a new Environment and Society career track and a professional development program for UCSB and SBCC faculty that develops both pedagogical skills and interdisciplinary research projects that facilitate undergraduate internship opportunities in partnership with non-profit and government agencies. CEES will provide internship experiences anchored in principles of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ). Building on cluster hiring in racial environmental justice, this project aims to serve 1000 students through CEES, mentor 300 students, develop 300 internships, and train 75 faculty across two HSI campuses in professional development activities. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），这条轨道3 HSI机构转型项目（ITP）：公平环境科学中心（CEES），旨在提高STEM专业代表性不足的学生的保留率。拥有这些身份的一年级和转学生都不成比例地离开了申报的STEM专业，没有有意义的实习经历。在STEM专业中保持来自不同背景的学生是培养下一代环境领导者的关键一步。通过突出科学与社会之间的联系，UCSB和圣巴巴拉城市学院（SBCC）的STEM教师将产生创新的STEM教育方法和关于科学和技术的社会影响的新研究问题。最后，CEES将通过出版物和会议演讲向HSI社区传播STEM教育最佳实践。该项目将利用环境正义的主题，通过UCSB奇卡诺研究所内的公平环境科学新中心促进交叉STEM身份的形成，以提供指导，学习社区和STEM实习。文化相关的指导加上学习社区将通过培养STEM专业的归属感来增强学生的体验。与职业服务中心合作，它将为UCSB和SBCC教师开发一个新的环境与社会职业轨道和专业发展计划，开发教学技能和跨学科研究项目，促进与非营利和政府机构合作的本科生实习机会。CEES将提供实习经验锚定在多样性，公平，包容和正义（DEIJ）的原则。在种族环境正义集群招聘的基础上，该项目旨在通过CEES为1000名学生提供服务，指导300名学生，开发300个实习机会，并在两个HSI校区培训75名教师，开展专业发展活动。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，并建立HSI的能力。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。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。