Workshopping and relationship-building to promote pathways in STEM higher education: UCLA and NTU

高等教育转型带来了在多个层面影响文化的机会。然而，高等教育STEM文化和地球科学及相关STEM领域的低水平多样性构成了对科学创新，劳动力发展以及社会和经济正义产生不利影响的主要障碍。UCLA和NTU的STEM文化都准备过渡到更具包容性，因为一群教师通过初次访问建立了关系。这笔资金将支持学生和教师的交流，提供机会，了解环境挑战和正在进行的研究中解决的科学问题。作为科学多样性领导中心新举措的一部分，教师和学生正在发展加州大学洛杉矶分校和少数民族服务机构之间的关系，以促进STEM高等教育的途径。主要目标之一是增加环境科学领域土著学生的招收和保留。这符合该中心的长期目标，即改变STEM高等教育的文化，使多元化的国家和全球社区能够应对环境和技术挑战，同时走向一个更加公正和包容的世界。为了帮助实现这一目标，该提案支持纳瓦霍技术大学（NTU）和加州大学洛杉矶分校的学生和教师之间的会议和关系建设。成果将包括加强土著学生STEM高等教育的途径，提高地球科学和相关STEM领域的招聘和保留率，以及提高文化意识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

Higher education transformation leads to opportunities to influence culture at multiple scales. However, higher education STEM culture and the low levels of diversity in the geosciences and related STEM fields pose major barriers that adversely impact scientific innovation, workforce development, and social and economic justice. The STEM cultures at both UCLA and NTU both are poised to transition to become more inclusive because of a group of faculty that have developed relationships through an initial visit. This funding will support the exchange of students and faculty to provide opportunities to learn about environmental challenges and scientific questions being addressed in ongoing research.As part of a new initiative at the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science, faculty and students are developing relationships between UCLA and minority-serving institutions to promote pathways in STEM higher education. One of the major objectives is to increase the recruitment and retention of indigenous students within the environmental sciences. This fits into the Center's long-term goal of changing the culture of STEM higher education to empower a diverse national and global community to address environmental and technological challenges, while moving towards a more just and inclusive world. To help achieve the objective, this proposal supports meetings and relationship-building between students and faculty at Navajo Technical University (NTU) and UCLA. Outcomes will include strengthened pathways in STEM higher education for indigenous students, higher rates of recruitment and retention in the geosciences and related STEM fields, and improved cultural awareness.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.