(HBCU) Geosciences Workshop: Maximizing Geosciences Opportunities Through Interdisciplinary Engagement and Outreach: September 26-28, 2018 - Hampton, VA

通过协调一致和持续的努力，扩大这些群体的参与，可以解决少数群体在STEM领域，特别是地球科学领域代表性不足的问题。为了理解为什么很少有少数民族学生选择进入这个跨学科领域和随后的职业（NSF 2018-2022财政年度战略计划；NSF地球科学咨询委员会，2014年12月），我们需要努力激励关键利益相关者，并为学生和教师创造进入地球科学的连接点。现在比以往任何时候都更加需要准备和支持教授地球科学课程的教师，并支持机构创建途径和计划，以扩大地球科学劳动力的参与。为来自代表性不足群体的学生提供服务的机构和专业能力对国家的经济竞争力至关重要，特别是预计到2024年地球科学领域的就业增长率将达到10% （Wilson, 2016）。“通过跨学科参与和推广最大化地球科学机会”研讨会认识到，扩大HBCU机构在地球科学领域参与的挑战和机遇存在于所有教育水平，因此，目标将是利用参与者的思想领导力和专业知识来制定和启动HBCU地球科学行动计划。21世纪地球科学的巨大挑战和机遇需要跨学科、综合和合作的方法。国家技术协会与hbcu -地球科学工作组合作，能够扩大其影响范围并发展更敏锐的洞察力，以支持hbcu尚未开发的资源。本次研讨会的一些关键目标是：1)开发并提出HBCU地球科学行动计划框架；2)在国家技术协会和HBCU地球科学工作组之间建立官方合作伙伴关系；3)为HBCU地球科学研讨会系列综合报告制定大纲。研讨会的潜在成果包括：a)促进跨学科、文化相关和代际视角，帮助建立和维持HBCU机构地球科学教学、研究、社区参与、公共政策和劳动力发展能力；b)鼓励更大的承诺，为教师、本科生和研究生层面的战略和综合地球科学倡议创造机会。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。

The underrepresentation of minorities in STEM fields, and geosciences in particular, can be addressed through concerted and sustained efforts to broaden participation of these groups. With an eye towards understanding why so few minority students choose to go into this interdisciplinary field and subsequent careers (NSF Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2018-2022; NSF Advisory Committee for Geosciences, December 2014), efforts are needed to both galvanize critical stakeholders and create connection points for students and faculty to on-ramp to the geosciences. The need to prepare and support faculty to teach geosciences courses and to support institutions in creating pathways and programs to broaden participation in the geoscience workforce is more critical now than ever. Institutional and professional capacity to serve students from underrepresented groups is critical to the nation's economic competitiveness, especially as job growth of up to 10% is expected for the geosciences by 2024 (Wilson, 2016). This Maximizing Geosciences Opportunities Through Interdisciplinary Engagement and Outreach workshop recognizes that challenges and opportunities to broadening participation of HBCU institutions in geosciences exist at all educational levels, and therefore the goal will be to leverage participants thought leadership and expertise to develop and launch a HBCU Geosciences Action Plan.The grand challenges and opportunities of 21st century geosciences require transdisciplinary, integrative and collaborative approaches. The National Technical Association, partnering with the HBCU-Geoscience Working Group, is able to broaden its reach and develop keener insight to support the untapped resources of HBCUs. Some key goals for this workshop are to 1) develop and present an HBCU Geosciences Action Plan Framework, 2) forge an official collaborative partnership between the National Technical Association and the HBCU Geosciences Working Group, and 3) produce an outline for an HBCU Geosciences Workshop Series Synthesis Report. Potential outcomes of the workshop include: a) promotion of interdisciplinary, culturally relevant and intergenerational perspectives that help build and sustain HBCU institutional geoscience teaching, research, community engagement, public policy and workforce development capacities, and b) encourage a greater commitment to building opportunities for strategic and integrated geoscience initiatives at the faculty, undergraduate and graduate levels.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.