Implementation grant: NewGeo: A Newark Geo-ecosystem for cultural transformation and systemic change in the geosciences

实施补助金：NewGeo：促进地球科学文化转型和系统变革的纽瓦克地理生态系统

• 批准号: 2228124
• 负责人: Ashaki Rouff
• 金额: $ 432.68万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University Newark
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228124&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementation; grant; NewGeo; Newark; Geo

The Newark Geoscience Ecosystem (NewGeo) is a transformative learning geo-ecosystem model uniting Newark-based institutions and organizations in the growth of a geoscience workforce prepared to solve urban environmental challenges through cross-sectoral collaboration. Rutgers University Newark leads NewGeo, a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) with an anchor institution mission centered on community engagement, science in the urban environment, and inclusive excellence through integration of diversity and inclusion in all pursuits. Through experiential learning opportunities, NewGeo graduate students build partnerships with Newark’s government, industry and education sectors, teach and mentor K-16 students, and collaborate with non-profits and community-based organizations. This instills a sense of civic responsibility in graduate students and the aspiring geoscientists they mentor. This project cultivates a geoscience workforce that is representative of and prepared to engage with the local citizenry to tackle environmental and climate stresses and injustices. The NewGeo faculty and administrators promote inclusive, collaborative, and positive environments in the geo-ecosystem; implement and become practitioners of strategies to encourage and support students, individuals, and communities from marginalized and minoritized groups; and formalize relationships and institutionalize best practices for effective partnerships and whole system change. All NewGeo participants influence and inspire their professional and social networks, share within their communities of practice, and disseminate outcomes to the broader geoscience community for adaptation and adoption of the NewGeo model for cultural transformation at multiple levels.NewGeo creates community-centered career pathways for participants from minoritized and marginalized groups and engages a traditionally excluded non-academic community in the scientific discourse. NewGeo is spearheaded by a graduate student cohort that transforms their education and challenges geoscience culture through collaborative, self-directed engagement with non-academic partners. Graduate student environment community-outreach graduate assistants (ECO GAs) leverage their academic preparation and build career skills through place-based experiential learning experiences in collaboration with NewGeo partners. Activities include embedded community-based internships, K-12 outreach, volunteerism, mentoring of undergraduates, and professional and leadership development. Faculty and administrators activate their capital as change agents for revolutionizing the geosciences (CHARGE) to induce cultural transformation. The cohort is CHARGEd to research, create, institutionalize and disseminate NewGeo best practices, policies and procedures, while engaging in self-guided and reflective professional development.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.

纽瓦克地球科学生态系统（NewGeo）是一种变革性的学习地球生态系统模式，将纽瓦克的机构和组织联合起来，培养地球科学人才，通过跨部门合作解决城市环境挑战。纽瓦克罗格斯大学（Rutgers University Newark）领导的新地理（NewGeo）是一家西班牙裔服务机构（HSI），其主要使命是通过整合多样性和包容性来实现社区参与、城市环境中的科学和包容性卓越。通过体验式学习的机会，NewGeo的研究生与纽瓦克的政府、工业和教育部门建立伙伴关系，教授和指导K-16学生，并与非营利组织和社区组织合作。这给研究生和他们指导的有抱负的地球科学家灌输了一种公民责任感。该项目培养了一支具有代表性的地球科学工作队伍，并准备与当地公民接触，以解决环境和气候压力和不公正现象。NewGeo的教职员工和管理人员在地球生态系统中促进包容、协作和积极的环境；实施并成为鼓励和支持来自边缘和少数群体的学生、个人和社区的战略的实践者；使关系正规化，使最佳做法制度化，以实现有效的伙伴关系和整个系统的变革。NewGeo的所有参与者都影响和激励他们的专业和社会网络，在他们的社区内分享实践，并将成果传播给更广泛的地球科学社区，以适应和采用NewGeo模式，在多个层面上进行文化转型。NewGeo为来自少数民族和边缘群体的参与者创造了以社区为中心的职业道路，并将传统上被排斥的非学术社区纳入科学话语。NewGeo由一群研究生带头，通过与非学术合作伙伴的协作、自主参与，改变他们的教育，挑战地球科学文化。研究生环境社区外展研究生助理（ECO GAs）通过与NewGeo合作伙伴合作，通过基于地点的体验式学习经验，利用他们的学术准备和建立职业技能。活动包括嵌入式社区实习，K-12外展，志愿服务，本科生指导，专业和领导力发展。教师和管理人员激活他们的资本作为变革代理人的革命地球科学（CHARGE），以诱导文化转型。该团队负责研究、创建、制度化和传播NewGeo最佳实践、政策和程序，同时参与自我指导和反思的专业发展。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。