ICE-TI: A Decolonized Approach to an AAS in Social and Behavioral Sciences

部落学院和大学方案的一个目标是提高为全国土著学生服务的特定高等教育机构的科学、技术、工程和数学教学和研究能力。扩大这些机构的STEM课程设置，为学生提供了在STEM领域追求具有挑战性和回报的职业的机会，为可能具有文化意义的领域提供了研究，并鼓励社区和一代人对科学和数学教育的欣赏。该项目直接与这一目标相一致，而且可以作为类似高等教育机构开发行为科学学位课程的模式和动力。它还大力支持红湖民族学院（RLNC）的使命，提供高质量的STEM教学，是在Ojibwe语言和红湖民族的文化接地。鉴于显着的社区需求和劳动力的机会，许多RLNC学生有兴趣在社会科学的职业生涯，但面临着很少的正规教育提供给他们。RLNC，从其独特的地位，在红湖民族文化，语言和传统的背景下提供社会和行为科学的指导，正在改造和升级其目前的社会和行为科学产品，使其满足学生，客户，社会服务机构和高等教育明尼苏达办公室的需求。RLNC是注入其AAS学位课程与更多的程序特定的课程和经验的组成部分，并将包括一个红湖国家学院机构审查委员会的发展和实施。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是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的支持。

A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to increase the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructional and research capacities of specific institutions of higher education that serve the Nation's indigenous students. Expanding the STEM curricular offerings at these institutions expands the opportunities for their students to pursue challenging, rewarding careers in STEM fields, provides for research studies in areas that may be culturally significant, and encourages a community and generational appreciation for science and mathematics education. This project aligns directly with that goal, and moreover may serve as a model and impetus for similar institutions of higher education to develop degree programs in the behavioral sciences. It also strongly supports the Red Lake Nation College (RLNC) mission to provide high quality STEM instruction that is grounded in the Ojibwe language and culture of the Red Lake Nation.Given the significant community need and workforce opportunity, many RLNC students are interested in careers in the social sciences, but are faced with little formal education available to them. RLNC, from its unique position to provide instruction in the social and behavioral sciences in the context of Red Lake Nation culture, language, and traditions, is revamping and upgrading its current social and behavioral science offerings so that it meets the needs of students, clients, social services agencies, and the Minnesota Office of Higher Education. RLNC is infusing its AAS degree program with more program-specific curriculum and experiential components and will include development and implementation of a Red Lake Nation College Institutional Review Board.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.