Collaborative Research: IMPLEMENTATION: C-COAST: Changing the Culture of our Occupations to Achieve Systemic Transformation

合作研究：实施：C-COAST：改变我们的职业文化以实现系统转型

• 批准号: 2422305
• 负责人: Kristy Lewis
• 金额: $ 12.79万
• 依托单位: University of Rhode Island
• 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: 2024-02-01 至 2027-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2422305&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; IMPLEMENTATION; COAST; Changing

Coastal counties are more diverse than non-coastal counties; however, the culture and identities of those who study and manage estuaries and coasts do not reflect these communities. This mismatch diminishes the quality of science and management provided; many coastal professionals lack the lived experiences and knowledge to prioritize issues most impactful to people in coastal areas. Despite widespread recognition that increasing the participation of groups underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is essential to sustaining the nation's capacity for innovation and discovery, there is a widening gap between the total number of marine science graduate degrees granted and degrees granted to those underrepresented in the field. Professional societies play a unique role in facilitating culture change within STEM disciplines by establishing and reinforcing norms and practices that advance greater diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and accessibility (DEIJA). They are also important avenues for training students and professionals in relevant skills and in developing networks necessary to progress in their careers. Culture change in professional societies scales up to impacts on members, their home institutions, and beyond. The Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) will assist the next generation of coastal and estuarine biologists and related disciplines in navigating the current culture while simultaneously dismantling inequities at the root of low DEIJA in the disciplines through the Changing the Culture of our Occupations to Achieve Systemic Transformation (C-COAST) program, which will provide professional development, mentoring, and networking to students and professionals at all career stages.The C-COAST program will harness evidence-based strategies to mitigate inequities and shift culture in the coastal and estuarine sciences through two programs: Rising TIDES Conference Program (RTCP) and Leadership Development Program (LDP). The RTCP is geared towards recruiting and retaining a new generation of estuarine and coastal science professionals. It consists of a 16-month program that supports attendance at the CERF and two additional coastal and estuarine conferences, with virtual meetings in between. The program provides professional and near-peer mentors, training, and networking, in addition to the full suite of scientific conference offerings. The LDP will provide leadership and DEIJA training for current and future leaders by building a dynamic learning community that will prepare emerging leaders to become agents of change while helping current leaders use existing power to address systemic inequities. The goals of C-COAST, from short- to long-term, are to 1): recruit and retain diverse undergraduate and graduate students and provide them professional development, mentorship, and peer networks to support a sense of belonging and identity; 2) educate current leaders on how to be more inclusive and change policies and practices that lead to inequities; and 3) increase the leadership skills of and opportunities for future leaders and prepare them to make policies and practices of CERF and their home institutions more inclusive when they are elevated to positions of power.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.

沿海县比非沿海县更多样化。但是，研究和管理河口和海岸的人的文化和身份并不能反映这些社区。这种不匹配降低了科学和管理的质量；许多沿海专业人员缺乏生活经验和知识，无法优先考虑对沿海地区人们影响的问题。尽管广泛认识到，增加在科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）中代表性不足的群体的参与对于维持国家的创新和发现能力至关重要，但在授予和学位的海洋科学研究生学位总数之间存在较大的差距，授予该领域的人的差异。专业社会通过建立和加强规范和实践来促进STEM学科内的文化变化，从而提高更大的多样性，公平，包容性，正义和可及性（DEIJA），从而发挥独特的作用。对于培训学生和专业人士的相关技能以及发展其职业发展所需的网络的重要途径。专业社会的文化变化扩展到对成员，其家庭机构及其他地区的影响。 The Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) will assist the next generation of coastal and estuarine biologists and related disciplines in navigating the current culture while simultaneously dismantling inequities at the root of low DEIJA in the disciplines through the Changing the Culture of our Occupations to Achieve Systemic Transformation (C-COAST) program, which will provide professional development, mentoring, and networking to students and professionals at all career stages.The C-COAST计划将利用基于证据的策略来减轻沿海和河口科学的不平等和转移文化，通过两个计划：上升潮汐会议计划（RTCP）和领导力发展计划（LDP）。 RTCP旨在招募和保留新一代的河口和沿海科学专业人员。它由一个16个月的计划组成，该计划支持参加CERF的出席以及两个额外的沿海和河口会议，其中虚拟会议介于两者之间。该计划除了完整的科学会议产品外，还提供专业和近距离的导师，培训和网络。新民党将通过建立一个动态的学习社区来为当前和未来的领导者提供领导力和DEIJA培训，这将使新兴领导者成为变革的代理，同时帮助现有领导者利用现有的权力来解决系统不平等。从短期到长期的C海岸的目标是1）：招募和保留多样化的本科生和研究生，并为他们提供专业发展，指导和同行网络，以支持归属感和身份的感觉； 2）教育现有领导人如何更具包容性以及改变导致不平等的政策和实践； 3）提高未来领导者的领导能力和机会，并准备使他们在提升到权力职位时使CERF及其内部机构的政策和实践更具包容性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的审查审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来获得支持的。