Collaborative Research: A Strategic Partnership for Geoscience Education and Research on Watershed Science and Climate Change in the Southwestern U.S.

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。扩大这些机构的外联，研究和STEM教学能力，为学生提供了在STEM领域追求具有挑战性，有价值的职业的机会，为可能与当地相关的领域提供了研究，并鼓励教师社区超越传统课堂寻求智力和专业成长。这个项目与这个目标直接相关，此外，该项目还将为在地球科学领域代表性不足的学生提供一种新的就业途径。地球科学教育伙伴关系（PAGE）西南印度理工学院和新墨西哥州大学之间的合作将实施一个研究和教育项目，该项目将通过开发与文化相关的课程来加强SIPI的地球科学教学这些模块通过指导来支持学生的学业成功，提高SIPI的研究能力，并使学生参与河岸生态水文学和流域科学的环境和部落相关研究。

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 outreach, research, and STEM instructional capacity at these institutions expands the opportunities for students to pursue challenging, rewarding careers in STEM fields, provides for research studies in areas that may be locally relevant, and encourages a faculty community to look beyond the traditional classroom for intellectual and professional growth. This project aligns directly with that goal, and moreover will serve as a model for novel pathways to careers in the geosciences for students underrepresented in that field.The Partnerships in Geoscience Education (PAGE) collaborative between Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute and the University of New Mexico will implement a research and educational project that will enhance the instruction in geosciences at SIPI by developing culturally relevant curriculum modules, support student academic success through mentoring, increase the research capacity of SIPI and the engagement of its students in environmentally and tribally relevant research in riparian ecohydrology and watershed science.