Conference: Cultivating Geoscience Careers Pathways at HBCUs and Women-Only Colleges in South Carolina and Georgia

南卡罗来纳州立大学（SCSU）将与南卡罗来纳州和佐治亚州的其他17家学术机构合作，在佐治亚州萨凡纳组织一次为期1.5天的会议，将汇集来自学术界、公共部门和私营部门的各种代表，以建立领导力，加强伙伴关系，并提高南卡罗来纳州和佐治亚州历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）以及女子学院的能力，以实现多元化。加强和扩大快速发展的地球科学工作队伍。会议的成果将包括一份报告，概述与参与机构的学生为多样化的地球科学职业道路做好准备有关的差距、挑战和机遇。该报告将包括针对学术界、公共部门和私营部门的建议，以解决这些差距、挑战和机遇。该项目将为一个实践社区奠定基础，该社区将在奖励期后继续学习和分享良好的实践和想法。会议组织者将召集来自南南卡罗莱纳州和佐治亚州hbcu和女性机构的教职员工和管理人员、资助机构代表以及私营和公共部门的雇主。会议的目标是：1)确定与学生对地球科学工作缺乏准备相关的课程差距和挑战；2)为参与机构、雇主和资助机构提出建议，以解决差距和挑战；3)为未来的合作奠定基础。该项目由地球科学局海洋科学司（OCE）、研究、创新、协同和教育司（RISE）以及促进竞争性研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）共同资助。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。

South Carolina State University (SCSU), in collaboration with over seventeen other academic institutions in South Carolina and Geogia, will organize a 1.5 days-long conference in Savannah, GA that will bring together a diverse constellation of academic, public, and private sector representatives to build leadership, enhance partnerships, and improve the capacity of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and women-only colleges in South Carolina and Georgia to diversify, strengthen, and expand a rapidly evolving geoscience workforce. Outcomes of the conference will include a report outlining gaps, challenges, and opportunities linked to preparing students at participating institutions for diverse geoscience career pathways. The report will include recommendations for academia, public, and private sectors to address those gaps, challenges, and opportunities. This project will launch the foundation for a community of practice that continues to learn and share good practices and ideas, beyond the award period.The conference organizers will bring together faculty and administrators from HBCUs and women-only institutions in SC and GA, funding-agency representatives, and employers in private and public sectors. The goal of the conference is to 1) identify curriculum gaps and challenges linked to lack of preparation for students for geoscience jobs, 2) develop recommendations for participating institutions, employers and funding agencies to address the gaps and challenges, and 3) lay the groundwork for future collaborations. This project is jointly funded by Directorate of Geosciences' Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE) and the Division of Research, Innovations, Synergies and Education (RISE), and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.