EAGER: Strengthening Traineeships and Research Opportunities for Next Generation Geoscientists at MSIs (STRONG at MSIs)

EAGER：加强 MSI 下一代地球科学家的培训和研究机会（MSI 的 STRONG）

• 批准号: 2233768
• 负责人: Samuel Moore
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2233768&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Strengthening; Traineeships; Research; Opportunities

The Strengthening Traineeships and Research Opportunities for Next Generation Geoscientists (STRONG) project will provide training for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and allied early career faculty on how to strengthen traineeship and research opportunities for next generation geoscientists from Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). Ten BIPOC and allied Geoscience Faculty of the Future (GEOFFs) will participate in training in preparation to mentor and train MSI STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) students to thrive in geoscience graduate programs at research-intensive universities. MSI STEM students thriving and not just being retained in graduate programs will lead to more of these students having healthy mindsets about pursuing research careers in support of the national interest of a diverse geoscience workforce. The project seeks to address the issues of equitable pathways to graduate geoscience programs for MSI STEM students, the mindset of faculty regarding the quality of MSI STEM students for research assistantships, and the well-being and preparedness of BIPOC and allied early career faculty to persist in the academy to mentor and train MSI STEM students.The goal of the project is to close the knowledge gap of how to have MSI STEM students and BIPOC and allied early career geoscience faculty and researchers thrive in geoscience departments at research intensive universities. The method will involve training of early career faculty in how to be inclusive and intentional in their identification of MSI STEM students for graduate research work, how to be intentional in their training of the students to be collaborators on their research, and how to present inclusive curriculum in associated classroom activities. Geoscience faculty of the future (GEOFF) will be trained by experienced geoscience faculty who serve as trainers with the National Association of Geoscience Teachers. A summer research training experience (RTX) prepared by and implemented by the early career faculty for the ten MSI STEM students will serve as a field experience for the early career faculty to practice their research collaboration training and mentoring. Each GEOFF participant will contribute their expertise to the development and delivery of training modules. GEOFF will support each other up to, during, and after the practicum via participation in a research coordination network and participation on a committee for lessons on equitable admissions and retention in graduate programs. Training BIPOC and allied early career faculty to be inclusive geoscience leaders has the potential to imbed inclusive geoscience leadership into departments across the country and to make inclusion business-as-usual over the 20 to 30 years of the careers of the inclusive leaders. We expect that other faculty in the departments of the GEOFFs observing the success of MSI STEM students in contributing to research will develop more favorable mindsets of the ability of MSI STEM majors to contribute to their lab and complete a rigorous graduate program.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.

加强下一代地球科学家的培训和研究机会（STRONG）项目将为BIPOC（黑人，土著人和有色人种）和联盟的早期职业教师提供培训，以加强少数民族服务机构（MSI）下一代地球科学家的培训和研究机会。十个BIPOC和未来的地球科学学院（GEOFF）将参加培训，准备指导和培训MSI STEM（科学，技术，工程，数学）学生在研究密集型大学的地球科学研究生课程中茁壮成长。MSI STEM学生的蓬勃发展，而不仅仅是被保留在研究生课程将导致更多的这些学生有健康的心态追求研究事业，以支持多元化的地球科学劳动力的国家利益。该项目旨在解决MSI STEM学生毕业地球科学课程的公平途径问题，教师对MSI STEM学生研究助理的质量的心态，还有那口井BIPOC和联合早期职业教师的存在和准备，坚持在学院指导和培训MSI STEM学生。该项目的目标是缩小如何让MSI STEM学生的知识差距，BIPOC和相关的早期职业地球科学教师和研究人员在研究密集型大学的地球科学系蓬勃发展。该方法将涉及培训早期职业教师如何在他们的MSI STEM学生的识别研究生研究工作中具有包容性和故意性，如何在他们的学生培训中故意成为他们研究的合作者，以及如何在相关的课堂活动中呈现包容性课程。未来的地球科学教师（GEOFF）将由经验丰富的地球科学教师培训，他们将担任全国地球科学教师协会的培训师。由早期职业教师为十名MSI STEM学生准备和实施的夏季研究培训体验（RTX）将作为早期职业教师实践他们的研究合作培训和指导的实地经验。GEOFF的每一位参与者都将为培训单元的开发和提供贡献自己的专业知识。杰夫将相互支持，直到，期间和实习后，通过参与研究协调网络和参与委员会的公平录取和保留研究生课程的经验教训。培训BIPOC和相关的早期职业教师成为包容性的地球科学领导者，有可能将包容性的地球科学领导力嵌入到全国各地的部门中，并在包容性领导者的职业生涯的20至30年内使包容性照常运作。我们希望，在GEOFF各部门的其他教师观察到MSI STEM学生在为研究做出贡献方面的成功，将对MSI STEM专业的学生为他们的实验室做出贡献并完成严格的研究生课程的能力形成更有利的心态。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。