2017 Stone Child College Targeted STEM Infusion Project

提高为美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（STEM）教学和研究能力是部落学院和大学计划的主要目标。“2017 Stone Child College Targeted STEM Infusion Project”通过开发一种教学模式来直接实现这些目标，该模式结合了Stone Child College （SCC）跨STEM学科的新民族植物学课程材料和研究经验。这项工作将扩大STEM课程，改善本土学生的学术环境，鼓励他们追求具有挑战性和回报丰厚的STEM学位和职业，从而形成更加多样化的国家劳动力，加强我们国家的繁荣和安全。该项目在支持本土学生取得STEM成果方面所取得的成效，将有助于我们了解吸引和培养STEM领域代表性不足的学生成为下一代STEM专业人士的最佳做法。Stone Child College的“2017年Stone Child College目标STEM输注项目”将开发一门民族植物学课程和学生研究经验，以解决核心植物学概念和Chippewa-Cree的传统植物知识，作为吸引土著学生参与STEM研究的一种手段。该项目将更新和改进一本有40年历史的关于奇佩瓦-克里民族植物学的书，并制作一个视频来补充这本书，以供课程使用，该课程将在SCC的STEM学科学位中提供。该项目还将开发和测试一个学生队列模型，该模型采用大学本科生在高中生完成课程并从事与文化相关的民族植物学研究时对他们进行近乎同伴的指导。来自部落社区的文化专家将与大学STEM教师合作，设计和提供课程和研究经验。该项目的评估将收集证据，证明该项目在支持改善土著学生的STEM成果方面的有效性。所产生的知识将在出版物和演讲中传播，并将有助于建立知识库，以提高土著人民在STEM学位和职业中的代表性。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Increasing the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructional and research capacities of specific institutions of higher education that serve the nation's Indigenous students is a major goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities program. The "2017 Stone Child College Targeted STEM Infusion Project" directly addresses these goals through the development of an instructional model that incorporates new ethnobotany curriculum materials and research experiences across the STEM disciplines at Stone Child College (SCC). This work will expand STEM offerings, improve the academic environment for Native students, and encourage them to pursue challenging and rewarding STEM degrees and careers, thus leading to a more diverse national workforce and strengthening our country's prosperity and security. The lessons learned about the efficacy of the project in supporting Native students' STEM outcomes will contribute to our understanding of best practices for attracting and preparing underrepresented students in STEM as the next generation of STEM professionals.The "2017 Stone Child College Targeted STEM Infusion Project" at Stone Child College will develop an ethnobotany course and student research experiences that address core botany concepts and traditional plant knowledge of the Chippewa-Cree as a means to engage Native students in STEM studies. The project will update and enhance a forty-year-old book on Chippewa-Cree ethnobotany and develop a video to complement the book for use in the course, which will be offered across the STEM disciplinary degrees at SCC. The project will also develop and test a student cohort model that employs near-peer mentoring of high school students by college undergraduates as they complete the course and engage in culturally relevant ethnobotany research. Cultural experts from the tribal community will collaborate with college STEM faculty members in the design and delivery of the course and research experiences. The project's evaluation will collect evidence of the efficacy of the project in supporting improved STEM outcomes for Native students. Knowledge generated will be disseminated in publications and presentations and will contribute to the knowledge base on means for increasing the representation of Native people in STEM degrees and careers.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.