Broadening Participation: An Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program Dissemination Conference

调查人员概述了一项在阿拉斯加大学安克雷奇分校举办传播会议的计划，以分享和推广扩大阿拉斯加原住民和其他传统上代表性不足的群体参与的示范性做法。该项目是基于一个新兴的成功扩大参与者计划，旨在增加阿拉斯加原住民在工程中的代表性。阿拉斯加土著科学工程计划（ANSEP）是一个综合性的示范计划，目前有2,000名学生。城市研究所于2015年完成了对该计划的定量和定性评估。他们发现，ANSEP模式为代表性不足的少数民族的其他科学，技术，工程和数学教育计划提供了重要的经验教训，特别是在从中学到研究生院的学生参与方面。阿拉斯加州拥有全国最昂贵的K12教育系统之一，并且在各级教育中一直排名垫底。许多条件和学生成绩与全国服务不足的社区相似，包括内城、密西西比三角洲、美国农村、阿巴拉契亚和印第安保留地。ANSEP促进了教育模式的变化，并建立了一套从六年级到研究生院的全面组成部分。其目的是实现系统性变革，以改善阿拉斯加原住民在工程劳动力中的招聘、晋升和晋升。该计划利用NSF的支持，通过与100多家工业公司，慈善组织，联邦和州机构，学校，学院和大学的合作伙伴关系来维持和制度化各种方案组成部分，这些公司提供资源，宣传，研究机会和实习机会。将从各种机构类型中选出七个小组参加传播会议。团队将包括高等教育，中学，工业和慈善合作伙伴的横截面。将从目标机构中征集参与者，在这些机构中推广这项工作将产生最大的影响和最有可能取得成功。会议旨在实践和体验。团队将从ANSEP合作伙伴，学生和校友小组学习，并将参与和观察与ANSEP计划组成部分相关的活动。每个团队将根据当地环境的细微差别制定一个定制的计划。

The investigators outline a plan to host a dissemination conference on the campus of the University of Alaska Anchorage to share and scale exemplary practices that broaden participation among Native Alaskans and other traditionally underrepresented groups. The project is based on an emerging successful broadening participant program that aims to increase the representation of Alaska Natives in engineering. The Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program (ANSEP) is comprehensive model program that currently works with 2,000 students. A quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the program was completed in 2015 by the Urban Institute. They found that the ANSEP model offers important lessons for other science, technology, engineering and mathematics education programs for underrepresented minorities, especially in its engagement of students from middle school through graduate school. Alaska has one of the most expensive K12 education systems in the nation and consistently ranks at the bottom for performance at all levels. Many of the conditions and student outcomes are similar to those found in under-served communities across the nation including inner cities, the Mississippi Delta, rural America, Appalachia, and Indian reservations. ANSEP has catalyzed a change in the educational paradigm and established a comprehensive set of components that extend from 6th grade to graduate school. The aim is effecting systemic change to improve the recruitment, progression, and advancement of Alaska Natives in the engineering workforce. The program has leveraged NSF support to sustain and institutionalize the various programmatic components through partnerships with more than 100 industrial firms, philanthropic organizations, federal and state agencies, schools, colleges, and universities who provide resources, advocacy, research opportunities, and internships. Seven teams from a variety of institutional types will be selected to participate in the dissemination conference. Teams will include a cross-section of higher education, secondary school, industry and philanthropic partners. Participants will be solicited from targeted institutions where a replication of the work will have the greatest impact and highest likelihood of success. The conference is designed to be hands-on and experiential. Teams will learn from panels of ANSEP partners, students, and alumni, and will participate in and observe activities associated with the ANSEP programmatic components. Each team will develop a customized program based on the nuances of their local contexts.