GP-IMPACT: Increasing Geosciences Enrollment through Research Experiences, Mentoring, and Curriculum Interactions With Community Colleges and High Schools

该计划的重点是提高本科生的研究技能，鼓励进入地球科学专业，在当地社区大学和拥有大量少数民族和高需求学生的高中招募和指导学生，并促进地球科学职业作为学术界，政府服务和私营企业可行的职业道路的相关性。通过开发有效吸引不同学生（包括代表性不足的少数民族学生）参与地球科学学科和职业的方法，该项目有助于满足美国培养更多精通地球科学学生的需求，从而进一步提高美国的经济竞争力。该项目涉及海洋与大气科学学院、地球科学系以及技术与社会学系的科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）智能项目的合作。校外合作伙伴包括拿骚和萨福克县社区学院以及长岛的几所高中，所有这些学校都靠近石溪大学（SBU）校园。该项目的主要特点包括：(1)扩大对地球科学感兴趣的社区大学生的暑期研究经验，重点是URM学生；(2)在学年期间与社区学院和高中合作，举办联合社团活动、研讨会，并由SBU教师、大四本科生和研究生指导学生；(3)与当地社区学院合作开发课程单元，使学生能够更顺利地从两年制院校过渡到四年制院校，如SBU；(4)为从社区学院过渡到SBU地球科学专业的学生提供奖学金支持，包括urm，将他们纳入大学现有的几个学术和支持结构，包括路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）；(5)为SBU和其他附近地点（例如布鲁克海文国家实验室）的少数民族高中生和本科生提供更多的地球科学实习和研究机会；(6)为一项纵向研究收集数据，以衡量学生选择地球科学专业或中途离开项目的意识和原因。正在实施的项目具有适应其他机构环境的潜力，从而扩大获得地球科学学科的机会并取得卓越成就。

This program focuses on enhancing undergraduate research skills, encouraging matriculation in geoscience majors, recruiting and mentoring students at local community colleges and several high schools with large numbers of minority and high-needs students, and promoting the relevance of geoscience careers as viable career paths in academia, government service, and private industry. By developing ways to effectively engage a diversity of students, including under-represented minority (URM) students in geoscience disciplines and careers, this project is helping to address the United States' needs for producing more students well versed in geoscience and thus further enhancing the country's economic competitiveness. This project involves collaborations within the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, the Department of Geosciences and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Smart program housed in the Department of Technology and Society. Off-campus partners include Nassau and Suffolk County Community Colleges and several high schools on Long Island, all of which are within close geographic proximity of the Stony Brook University (SBU) campus. The main features of this project include: (1) Expanding summer research experiences for community college students interested in the geosciences, with a strong focus towards URM students; (2) Collaborating with community colleges and high schools during the academic year with joint club activities, seminars, and mentoring of students by SBU faculty, senior undergraduates, and graduate students; (3) Collaborating with the local community colleges to develop curricular units that result in a smoother transition for students from 2-year to 4-year institutions, such as SBU; (4) Providing scholarship support to students transitioning from community colleges to SBU geoscience majors, including URMs, by incorporating them into several existing academic and support structures available at the University, including the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP); (5) Providing increased internship and research opportunities for minority high school students and undergraduates in the geosciences at SBU and at other nearby locations (e.g., Brookhaven National Laboratory); and (6) Collecting data for a longitudinal study that gauges the awareness of, and reasons for, students pursuing geoscience majors or leaving the program part way through. The programs being implemented have potential for being adapted to other institutional contexts, thereby expanding access to and excellence in geoscience disciplines.