Outreach and Scaling-up Activities for the ALIGNED Project

美国地理学家协会正在开发一个新的地理空间本科招生工具包，该工具包可以帮助地球科学和地理学系在其共同来源地区和未确定的主要人口中识别和接触学生。AAG的创新部门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，以增加地理/地球科学中代表性不足群体成员的参与。这笔奖助金将被用于纳入新的外联和扩大活动，这些活动将解决两个目标，这两个目标仍然是对齐计划最初目标的核心。正在将更多的关键特征纳入该工具包，并正在扩大部门数据的存储量，以便作为国家一级的工具包得到更广泛的使用。大约50个其他院系的本科生简介数据正在被添加到系统中。此外，地图层还定位了获得美国国家科学基金会活跃奖项的机构，这些奖项来自路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟计划（LSAMP）、研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）、科学技术卓越研究中心（CREST）、传统黑人学院和大学本科计划（HBCU-UP）、增加女性在学术科学和工程职业中的参与和进步（ADVANCE）、和/或提高地球科学多样性的机会（OEDG）项目正在开发中。AAG还制作了七个新的外展视频，讨论地球科学的常见问题和考虑，这些问题和考虑往往会影响代表性不足的学生在教育和职业道路方面的决定。这些视频的主题是与少数族裔服务机构和支持这些社区的专业团体的代表协商后制定的，这些团体包括美国地球物理联合会（AGU）、美国地质研究所（AGI）、西班牙裔学院和大学协会（HACU）和美国印第安人高等教育联合会（AIHEC）。这些活动将与2012年2月在纽约举行的AAG年会上组织的活动相结合，预计将有8500多名与会者参加，主要地理和地球科学协会之间的特别协调活动正在计划中。

This RAPID award is being used to augment capabilities of a new geospatial undergraduate student recruitment toolkit under development at the American Association of Geographers that is helping geoscience and geography departments identify and reach students both within their common source regions and from among their undecided major population. AAG's innovative department toolkit combines a spatial decision support system prototype and an online clearinghouse of materials for increasing the participation of members of underrepresented groups in geography/geosciences. This grant is being used to incorporate new outreach and scaling-up activities that will address two objectives that remain central to the ALIGNED project's original goals. Additional key features are being incorporated into the toolkit and the departmental data holdings are being expanded, in preparation for broader use as a national level toolkit. Undergraduate profile data of approximately 50 additional departments are being added to the system. In addition, a map layer that locates institutions with active NSF awards from the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation Program (LSAMP), Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), Centers for Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST), Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP), Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers (ADVANCE), and/or Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences (OEDG) programs is being developed. AAG is also producing seven new outreach videos that address common issues and considerations about the geosciences that often inform decisions made by under-reprented students regarding education and career pathways. The themes being featured in these videos have been developed through consultation with representatives from minority-serving institutions and professional societies supporting these communities, including the American Geophysical Union (AGU), American Geological Institute (AGI), Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities (HACU), and, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC). These activities are being conducted in conjunction with events being organized in at the AAG's Annual Meeting in New York, February 2012, where more than 8,500 attendees are expected and special coordinated activities among the major geography and geoscience associations are being planned.