Improving minority advancement for geoscience equity nationally (IMAGEN)

提高全国地球科学公平性的少数族裔进步 (IMAGEN)

• 批准号: 2329485
• 负责人: Lixin Jin
• 金额: $ 60.75万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at El Paso
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-15 至 2027-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2329485&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; minority; advancement; geoscience; equity

There has been little to no progress in growing participation or retention of students from structurally excluded groups in the Geosciences. This study highlights the urgent need to address this issue by actively recruiting, retaining, and improving the educational and professional success of students from structurally excluded populations who are entering geoscience careers. This project will offer professional development support to a significant number of Hispanic students in the geosciences at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), thus positively contributing to the national pipeline of the STEM workforce and helping to narrow the underrepresentation gap. More importantly, the meaningful hands-on place-, culturally- and community-based experiences and close mentoring will engage students and lead to better retention, academic achievement, and career success. Moreover, the program will offer professional training for students in the effective study, interpretation, and communication of scientific knowledge, most acutely the impacts of natural and anthropogenic change on Earth’s systems and ensuring national independence in energy and critical resources.The primary goal of the project is to use stratified mentoring, community service and experiential learning approaches at UTEP to recruit, retain and prepare Hispanic students for Geoscience careers. This goal will be achieved by curriculum reform, where students will take “professional development” and “community engagement” trainings over a two-year period. In both courses, students will be closely mentored by a diverse team including UTEP Geoscience faculty, professionals working across a spectrum of positions, and local community partners. The project will allow for close interactions among Geoscience majors, and between students, faculty, and their future employers. The proposed activities will provide real-time professional development opportunities for students to work as part of multidisciplinary teams and with community partners solving complex earth science problems that are locally and regionally important and prepare them better for future STEM careers. This will build the professional STEM workforce and enhance the quality of the educational experience by assuring access of students to faculty as teachers and research mentors and strengthen the partnership of UTEP and El Paso community.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.

在地球科学中，从结构排除的群体中的学生的参与或保留率在不断增长或保留的过程中几乎没有进展。这项研究强调，迫切需要通过积极招募，保留和改善来自从结构排除的人群进入地球科学职业的学生的教育和专业成就来解决这个问题。该项目将为德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校（UTEP）的地球科学的大量西班牙裔学生提供专业发展支持，从而为STEM劳动力的全国性渠道做出了积极贡献，并有助于缩小代表性不足的差距。更重要的是，有意义的动手实践，基于文化和社区的经历以及亲密的心态将吸引学生，并带来更好的保留，学术成就和职业成功。此外，该计划将为学生提供科学知识的有效研究，解释和交流的专业培训，最敏锐的是自然和人为变化对地球系统的影响，并确保该项目的国家独立性和关键资源的国家独立性。该项目的主要目标是使用固定的心理，社区服务以及在UTEP上招募他的地球运动员的固体，社区服务和专家学习方法。这一目标将通过课程改革实现，学生将在两年期间接受“专业发展”和“社区参与”培训。在这两种课程中，学生都将密切提及包括UTEP地球科学教师在内的潜水团队，跨职位工作的专业人员以及当地社区合作伙伴。该项目将允许地球科学专业以及学生，教职员工及其未来员工之间进行密切的互动。拟议的活动将为学生提供实时的专业发展机会，使学生成为多学科团队的一部分，并与社区合作伙伴解决了在本地和区域重要的复杂地球科学问题，并为未来的STEM职业做好了更好的准备。这将通过确保学生进入教师和研究导师的机会来建立专业的STEM劳动力，并提高教育经验的质量，并加强UTEP和El Paso社区的合作伙伴关系。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被视为珍贵的支持。