Building on our Success: A proposal to enhance and improve minority student recruitment and retention in the Geosciences at the University of New Orleans

在过去的27年里，新奥尔良大学(UNO)的地质和地球物理系一直在管理着一项招募和毕业非裔美国人和西班牙裔地球科学家的计划。招收少数族裔学生的主要工具是为优秀的高三和高年级学生进行的暑期实地考察，以及奖学金支持。该计划不仅强调招收优秀高中生，而且还通过科学教学硕士(MAST)计划对当地教师进行培训和认证。该奖项将扩大和加强现有的少数民族学生和教师招募、保留和毕业计划，采取行动，帮助该计划在期末实现自给自足。创建一个顾问小组，主要由前联合国大学少数族裔学生组成，现在受雇于当地工业、学术界和政府机构，是重要的第一步。该小组将帮助指导初中生、本科生和研究生，并作为教师更好地了解招聘问题的资源。该奖项还将扩大一个竞争激烈的高中水平的环境科学暑期项目，向当地学生开放，从一年级到高中四年级。推广计划将扩大到教授地球科学的当地中学。还将建立访问学者计划。

ABSTRACTBUILDING ON OUR SUCCESS: A PROPOSAL TO ENHANCE AND IMPROVE MINORITY STUDENT RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION IN THE GEOSCIENCES AT THE UNIVERISTY OF NEW ORLEANSFor the past 27 years, the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of New Orleans (UNO) has managed a program for recruiting and graduating BS and MS African-American and Hispanic geoscientists. The primary tools for minority student recruitment have been a summer field trip for outstanding high school juniors and seniors, and scholarship support. This program emphasizes not only recruitment of outstanding high school students, but also the training and certification of local teachers through a Masters in Science Teaching (MAST) program.This award will expand and enhance the existing program of recruitment, retention, and graduation of minority students and teachers by taking actions that will also help to it become self-sustaining at the end of the period. Creating an advisory panel that consists mostly of former UNO minority-student graduates, now employed in local industry, academia, and government agencies is an important first step. The panel will assist in mentoring middle-high school, undergraduate and graduate students, and serve as a resource to faculty to better understand recruitment issues. The award will also expand a competitive, high school level summer program in environmental science open to local students in their freshman through senior years of high school. The outreach program will be expanded to include local middle schools where earth science is taught. A visiting scholars program will also be established.