Environmental Stewardship of Indigenous Lands Scholarship Program

在科学，技术，工程和数学（S-STEM）计划NSF奖学金的资助下，土著土地环境管理（埃西尔）奖学金计划将支持表现出经济需求的高成就，低收入学生。 在五年内，该项目将资助16个奖学金的学生谁是追求学士学位的生物学，土木工程，或环境科学在科罗拉多丹佛大学。该埃西尔奖学金计划将提供支持，指导，并与土著人民（美洲印第安人，阿拉斯加土著和夏威夷土著）合作环境管理培训。该埃西尔奖学金计划将解决环境部落联络的需要，在干和跨文化交流培训的个人。为了满足这一需求，埃西尔奖学金计划将使奖学金获得者能够在部落和非部落政府合作伙伴完成实习，并参加旨在提供STEM，学术支持和专业发展的跨文化意识的课外活动。该埃西尔奖学金计划有潜力产生有价值的知识：（1）大学如何促进所有学生的公平，以及（2）如何在文化，专业和沟通的非技术培训可以减少障碍，保留在干程序（例如，认为有必要放弃自己的文化身份，转而支持新的科学主导文化身份）。埃西尔奖学金计划将研究如何提供基于文化身份和科学身份是共生而不是排斥的观点的节目。研究将通过定量和定性研究方法进行。该埃西尔奖学金计划旨在增加对环境管理感兴趣的STEM专业的入学率，提高STEM学生的毕业率，并通过与部落和政府合作伙伴的更深层次联系来加强大学校园的土著文化。该项目将开发一个独特的模式，通过跨文化的经验，协同土著文化和STEM，并将培养学生谁将是唯一合格的STEM职业生涯在土地管理。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准的支持。

With funding from the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, the Environmental Stewardship of Indigenous Lands (ESIL) Scholarship Program will support high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need. Over five years, the project will fund 16 scholarships to students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in Biology, Civil Engineering, or Environmental Science at the University of Colorado Denver. The ESIL Scholarship Program will provide support, mentoring, and training in environmental stewardship in collaboration with Indigenous peoples (American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian). The ESIL Scholarship Program will address the need for environmental tribal liaisons, individuals trained in both STEM and cross-cultural communication. To meet this need, the ESIL Scholarship Program will enable scholarship recipients to complete internships at tribal and non-tribal government partners, and to participate in extracurricular activities designed to provide cross-cultural awareness in STEM, academic supports, and professional development. The ESIL Scholarship Program has the potential to produce valuable knowledge about: (1) how a university can promote equity for all students, and (2) how non-technical training in culture, professionalism, and communication can reduce barriers to retention in STEM programs (e.g., the perceived need to abandon one's cultural identity in favor of a new scientific dominant-culture identity). The ESIL Scholarship Program will conduct research on how to provide programming grounded in the viewpoint that cultural identity and scientific identity are symbiotic rather than exclusive. The research will be carried out via both quantitative and qualitative research methods. The ESIL Scholarship Program aims to increase enrollment in STEM majors interested in environmental stewardship, improve graduation rates of STEM students, and strengthen Indigenous culture on a collegiate campus through deeper connections with tribal and government partners. The project will develop a unique model for synergizing indigenous culture and STEM through cross-cultural experiences and will train students who will be uniquely qualified for STEM careers in land stewardship.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.