Building a New Minority Geoscience Awareness Program in an Area Impacted by the Relocation of Residents after Hurricane Katrina

这个由SGER资助的项目正在建立一个新的管道，为少数民族学生招募到休斯顿-新奥尔良走廊的地球科学，以应对卡特里娜飓风对新奥尔良教育系统造成的灾难性破坏。 该项目正在探索一个在新奥尔良大学运营了35年的学生招聘示范项目的可移植性，通过在UTEP重新创建其基本要素，但与休斯顿地区的学生和教师合作。 特别令人感兴趣的是，对于从新奥尔良迁移到得克萨斯州的学生，以及在人口结构与新奥尔良非常不同的环境中的学生来说，这种模式是否仍然有效，新奥尔良的非裔美国人更为均匀。 通过这个项目，少数民族高中学生和教师从休斯顿到埃尔帕索将从事活动和实地考察，这将打开他们的眼睛在地球科学的教育和职业道路。 来自新奥尔良、休斯顿和埃尔帕索的中学科学教师网络将通过联合专业发展和研究生学位课程得到发展。 从UNO地球科学计划谁还没有能够找到替代学术课程流离失所的参与者将被寻找出来，并支持在UTEP学习。

This SGER-funded project is establishing a new pipeline for minority student recruitment into the geosciences in the Houston-New Orleans corridor, in response to the catastrophic disruptions for the New Orleans educational systems brought on by Hurricane Katrina. The project is exploring the portability of a model program for student recruitment operated at the University of New Orleans for 35 years by recreating its essential elements at UTEP, but working with students and teachers from the Houston area. Of particular interest is whether the model is still effective for students who have been displaced from New Orleans to Texas and for students in an environment where the demographic profile is very different from that of New Orleans, which was more homogeneously African-American. Through this project, minority high school students and teachers from Houston to El Paso will be engaged in activities and field trips that will open their eyes to educational and career pathways in the geosciences. A nework of secondary school science teachers from New Orleans, Houston, and El Paso will be developed through joint professional development and graduate degree programs. Displaced participants from the UNO geoscience programs who have not yet been able to find alternative academic programs will be sought out and supported for study at UTEP.