Collaborative Research: Supporting Leadership in Diversity, Professional Development, and Geoscience Capacity Building for Veterans in STEM: The VRC-CDLS Veterans in STEM Program

合作研究：支持 STEM 退伍军人在多样性、专业发展和地球科学能力建设方面的领导力：VRC-CDLS STEM 退伍军人计划

• 批准号: 2232606
• 负责人: Aradhna Tripati
• 金额: $ 187.18万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 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: 2023-06-01 至 2028-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2232606&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Supporting; Leadership; Diversity

This project aims to sustain a cross-institutional geo/environmental science diversity leadership program, between East Los Angeles College (ELAC) and The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), which recruits from the veteran community. The veteran community is comprised of people who, through their service, have been exposed to a leadership-driven background which often develops unique skills, experiences, and mindsets. This makes veterans prime candidates to serve as diversity champions in the geo/environmental science communities. But as with many underrepresented communities in the geoscience, environmental science, and the STEM community overall, veterans face additional barriers which must be addressed to facilitate their development as diversity leaders. By developing a plan to recruit from and simultaneously address these barriers the PIs plan to create unique experiences to develop champions of diversity in veteran communities and create faculty leadership empathy towards the veteran community to better inform them how to create expansion efforts to enhance inclusion.Many veterans are from under-invested communities; therefore, the PIs will focus efforts on recruitment from these communities, which will contribute to broadening participation efforts in the geosciences. The PIs desire to create a data-backed model program that can be used at various institutions to inform larger veteran inclusion and leadership development efforts that can directly, and effectively address the “Supporting Veterans in STEM Careers Act”. The PIs are looking to employ a multi-dimensional approach that will simultaneously address social, personal, and academic issues; strengthen veteran involvement in the geo/environmental science research communities; further develop essential skills to become effective leaders in these fields; and create a model that can be used to address veteran inclusion and leadership development at various types of institutions.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.

该项目旨在维持东洛杉矶学院（ELAC）和加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）之间的跨机构地理/环境科学多样性领导计划，该计划从退伍军人社区招募。退伍军人社区由那些通过他们的服务接触到领导驱动背景的人组成，这些背景通常会发展独特的技能，经验和心态。这使得退伍军人成为地理/环境科学界多样性冠军的主要候选人。但是，与地球科学、环境科学和STEM社区中许多代表性不足的社区一样，退伍军人面临着额外的障碍，必须解决这些障碍，以促进他们作为多样性领导者的发展。通过制定一项计划，从这些障碍中招募并同时解决这些障碍，PI计划创造独特的经验，以培养退伍军人社区多样性的拥护者，并创造教师领导对退伍军人社区的同情，以更好地告知他们如何创建扩展努力以增强包容性。许多退伍军人来自投资不足的社区;因此，项目研究员将集中精力从这些社区招聘，这将有助于扩大地球科学领域的参与。PI希望创建一个数据支持的模型程序，可用于各种机构，以告知更大的退伍军人包容性和领导力发展工作，这些工作可以直接有效地解决“支持退伍军人在STEM职业法案”。PI正在寻求采用多维度的方法，同时解决社会，个人和学术问题;加强地质/环境科学研究社区的退伍军人参与;进一步发展基本技能，成为这些领域的有效领导者;并创建一个模型，可用于解决退伍军人的包容性和领导力的发展在各种类型的机构。这个奖项反映了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。