Woksape Kici Woitinze - Support for Knowledge

部落学院和大学方案的一个目标是提高为全国土著学生服务的特定高等教育机构的科学、技术、工程和数学教学和研究能力。扩大这些机构的STEM课程设置，扩大了学生在STEM领域追求具有挑战性和回报的职业的机会，为可能具有文化意义的领域提供了研究，并鼓励社区和一代人对科学和数学教育的欣赏。该项目直接与这一目标相一致，而且将告知有关大学预科和本科研究经验的重要性和行为的知识体系，以招募和保留代表性不足的个人进入STEM研究，并为下一代STEM专业人员做好准备。学生与研究的联系是留住更有可能攻读高级学位的学生的重要一步。对于那些直接从部落学院进入劳动力市场的学生来说，同样重要的是他们在数学，科学和技术方面具有明确的技能，以便进入STEM劳动力市场。该项目还通过对教学和学习的多学科STEM研究，推进STEM+计算合作伙伴计划的目标。具体活动包括：通过科学博览会吸引K-12学生，通过与K-12科学教师导师共享研究活动为高中毕业生牵线搭桥，发展分散的数学和科学写作学习社区，继续高质量的本科研究，为数学课程开展以发现为基础的物理学和民族数学丰富活动，并通过在同行评审的期刊上发表文章，为学生和教师提供学科特定和教育成果的科学传播。通过这些战略实现的STEM招聘，保留，持久性和完成的改进将通过方案改进和与Oglala Lakota的战略计划和招生管理计划保持一致。 Woksapi Kici Woitinze通过以下方式加强STEM教育和本科生研究：1）设计，调整和评估创新的教育策略，以提高学院的能力和有效性，以吸引，留住和教育STEM学生，准备在学士学位或研究生水平继续深造的研究生，或加入STEM劳动力队伍; 2）在分散的部落学院校园环境中，在主要是美洲原住民，贫困水平，女性社区传播成功的教育模式和STEM教育方法;以及3）在与Oglala部落民族相关的领域促进科学理解，包括：气候变化对中西部牧场生态的影响，可持续住房，生物燃料和药用植物提取物加工，空气和水质分析，箱龟的保护状况和遗传学以及野牛的健康和行为，通过对这些项目的研究和发表，描述了始新世和中新世的地层学陆地沉积物和化石，与学术和部落项目合作者一起审查期刊。

A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to increase the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructional and research capacities of specific institutions of higher education that serve the Nation's indigenous students. Expanding the STEM curricular offerings at these institutions expands the opportunities of their students to pursue challenging, rewarding careers in STEM fields, provides for research studies in areas that may be culturally significant, and encourages a community and generational appreciation for science and mathematics education. This project aligns directly with that goal, and moreover will inform the body of knowledge about the importance and conduct of pre-college and undergraduate research experiences in recruiting and retaining underrepresented individuals into STEM studies, and preparing the next generation of STEM professionals. The connection of students to research is an important step in retaining students who are more likely to pursue advanced degrees. For those students entering the workforce directly from a tribal college it is equally important that they have a well-defined skill set in mathematics, science, and technology for entry into the STEM workforce. The project also advances objectives of the STEM+Computing Partnerships program through its multidisciplinary STEM research on teaching and learning.The specific activities are to: engage K-12 students through science fairs, bridge high school graduates through a shared research activity with a K-12 science teacher-mentor, develop decentralized mathematics and scientific-writing learning communities, continue high-quality undergraduate research, develop discovery-based physics and ethnomathematics enrichment activities for mathematics courses, and provide for student and faculty scientific dissemination of discipline specific and educational findings through publishing in peer-reviewed journals. The improvements in STEM recruiting, retention, persistence, and completion that will be realized through these strategies will be sustained through programmatic improvements and departmental alignment with Oglala Lakota's strategic plan and enrollment management plan. Woksapi Kici Woitinze strengthens STEM education and undergraduate research through: 1) design, adaptation and assessment of innovative educational strategies to increase the capacity and effectiveness of the college to attract, retain, and educate students in STEM, graduate students prepared to pursue further study at the baccalaureate or graduate level, or to join the STEM workforce; 2) dissemination of successful educational models and methods for STEM education in a primarily Native American, poverty level, female community within a decentralized Tribal College campus setting; and 3) advancing scientific understanding in areas relevant to the Oglala Tribal Nation including: the effects of climate variability on the ecology of midwestern rangeland steams, advances in sustainable housing, biofuels and medicinal plant extract processing, air and water quality analysis, the conservation status and genetics of box turtles and the health and behavior of bison, and descriptions of the stratigraphy Eocene and Miocene aged terrestrial deposits and fossils by researching and publishing on these items in peer-reviewed journals with academic and tribal program collaborators.