Track 1: Departments and Underrepresented Students ALIGNED: Addressing Locally-tailored Information Infrastructure & Geoscience Needs for Enhancing Diversity

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。美国地理学家协会（AAG）正在努力通过解决本地定制的信息基础设施和地球科学需求来增强多样性，从而协调大学院系和代表性不足的学生的需求。对齐项目将支持制定知识驱动、基于地点和地区的招聘和保留计划，以便学生通过专业进入大学并与之互动。该项目旨在支持代表性不足的青年了解他们可以在哪里以及如何将个人兴趣转化为职业目标，并动员和重组部门，以更好的方式了解在哪里寻找和如何与代表性不足的群体建立联系，包括如何传达地球科学职业的相关性。这个模型项目将整合关于地方的、来自于地方的、关于地方和生活在其中的社区的现实的知识，并将识别和整合有关迁移模式、通勤模式、以及导致地理行为的选择和偏好的研究，并以此证明地理概念和技术在扩大参与科学中的重要性。该项目将设计和测试一个创新的工具包，该工具包结合了空间决策支持系统原型和在线资料交换中心，以增加高等教育的多样性。align将接触到27个州的52个地理/地球科学混合系，并将帮助一个由7个项目组成的试点小组整合知识和最佳实践，以了解在哪里以及如何让代表性不足的群体参与到当地的集水区。其他成果包括一个反映新兴研究主题的地球科学研讨会、一个多样性大使同侪导师交流框架、一本学术出版物，以及加强美国地质学会、地理/地球科学系、全国大学和雇主协会、美国残疾人协会、美国社区学院协会、白宫历史上的黑人学院和大学委员会之间的合作。西班牙裔学院和大学协会，美洲印第安人高等教育协会等。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Association of American Geographers (AAG) is working to align the needs of university departments and underrepresented students by Addressing Locally-tailored Information Infrastructure & Geoscience Needs for Enhancing Diversity. The ALIGNED Project will support the development of knowledge-driven, place-based, and locationally-tailored plans for recruitment and retention at the department level where students enter and engage with universities through their majors. This project seeks to support underrepresented youth to learn just where and how they might transform their personal interests into career goals, and mobilize and retool departments with better ways to learn where to find and how to connect with underrepresented groups, including how to convey the relevance of geoscience careers. This model program will integrate knowledge of, from, and about places and the realities of communities living in them and will identify and incorporate research about migration patterns, commuting patterns, and choices and preferences that lead to geographic behavior, and in doing so demonstrate the importance of geographic concepts and technologies as applied to the science of broadening participation. The project will design and test an innovative toolkit that combines a spatial decision support system prototype and an online clearinghouse of materials for increasing diversity in higher education. ALIGNED will reach out to 52 hybrid geography/geoscience departments in 27 states, and will help a pilot group of 7 programs to integrate knowledge and best practices about where and how to engage underrepresented groups in their local catchments. Other deliverables are a geoscience symposium reflecting on emerging research themes, a Diversity Ambassadors peer mentor exchange framework, a scholarly publication, and strengthened collaborations among the AAG, geography/geosciences departments, the National Association of Colleges and Employers, American Association of Persons with Disabilities, American Association of Community Colleges, White House Commission on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities, and American Indian Higher Education Consortium, among others.