NSF INCLUDES Planning Grant: Coastal, Ocean, and Marine Enterprise Inclusion and Network-building (COME IN)

这项NSF包括计划拨款由NSF纳入全国工程和科学领域未被充分代表的发现者的学习社区(NSF Includes)资助，这是一项综合性的全国性倡议，旨在通过关注多样性、包容性和扩大对STEM的参与来加强美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位。该奖项的目标是创建海岸、海洋和海洋企业包容性和网络建设(Come In)。该项目包括一系列促进虚拟和面对面参与的机会，将来自沿海、海洋和海洋(COM)学科的科学家、利益相关者和合作伙伴聚集在一起，以了解来自代表性不足和资源不足社区的学生的动态需求，建立协作基础设施，以Sea Grant的社区参与实习计划为基础，加强和扩大针对代表性不足少数群体(URM)的实习计划，并估计资源需求，以成功形成新的扩展框架，确保URM学生在COM工作队伍中的坚持不懈和成功。除了促进参与者学习和建立关系外，Come In还促进各种COM组织、机构和企业之间加强沟通和合作。该项目利用多种方式捕捉不同的视角，包括来自服务不足和代表性不足社区的个人的现场个人和专业经验，他们可能无法参加虚拟或面对面的会议。这一规划项目的重点是在合作伙伴、伙伴关系、目标和衡量标准之间建立共同愿景，并建立强有力的协作基础设施机制，以分享经验教训和最佳做法。由Come In提出的扩大参与范围的挑战基于两个基本问题：(I)以COM为重点的专业协会、政府和非政府组织、企业和学术界如何才能产生公正、公平、多样性和包容性的原则，以及(Ii)合作组织如何有效地支持、衡量和复制本科及以上COM科学学科的URM成功。为了应对这一挑战，Inin鼓励围绕以下问题展开讨论：哪些独特的需求和挑战促进或阻止学生从代表性不足和资源不足的社区获得COM科学领域的学位；就支持这些学生在COM领域的参与、坚持不懈和成功而言，哪些工具、方法和实践最有效；传统和本地知识与西方从事科学的方法相结合如何有助于培养学生作为科学家的认同感；专业协会、政府和非政府组织、企业和学术界如何以何种方式创造更具包容性和安全性的工作环境，以培养学生的归属感；长期的队列建设、专业发展和获得响应文化的导师和榜样对学生留存和成功的影响是什么；最后，什么衡量标准和标准可以用来评估COM科学领域的导师和榜样的有效性。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This NSF INCLUDES planning grant is funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale. The goal of this award is to create the Coastal, Ocean, and Marine Enterprise Inclusion and Network-building (COME IN). The project includes a series of facilitated virtual and in-person engagement opportunities that bring together scientists, stakeholders, and partners from various coastal, ocean and marine (COM) disciplines to understand the dynamic needs of students from underrepresented and under-resourced communities, establish a collaborative infrastructure to enhance and expand internship programs for underrepresented minorities (URM) based on Sea Grant’s Community-Engaged Internship program, and estimate resource needs to successfully form new and expanded frameworks that will ensure the persistence and success of URM students in the COM workforce. In addition to facilitating participant learning and relationship building, COME IN promotes enhanced communication and collaboration among various COM organizations, institutions, and businesses. The project utilizes multiple ways of capturing diverse perspectives, including the lived personal and professional experiences of individuals from underserved and underrepresented communities who may not be able to participate in virtual or in-person COME IN meetings. This planning project focuses on developing a shared vision among partners, partnerships, goals and metrics, and developing robust mechanisms of collaborative infrastructure for sharing lessons learned and best practices. The broadening participation challenge proposed by COME IN is based on two foundational questions: (i) how can COM focused professional societies, government and non-governmental organizations, businesses, and academia engender justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion principles, and (ii) how can partnering organizations effectively support, measure, and replicate URM success in COM science disciplines at the undergraduate level and beyond. To address this challenge, COME IN fosters discussions around the following questions: what are the unique needs and challenges that either facilitate or prevent students from underrepresented and under-resourced communities from pursuing a degree in COM science fields; which tools, methods and practices are most effective in terms of supporting the participation, persistence, and success of these students in COM fields; how does integration of traditional and local knowledge with western approaches of doing science contribute to the development of students’ identity as scientists; in what ways can professional societies, government and non-governmental organizations, businesses, and academia create more inclusive and safe working environments that foster students’ sense of belonging; what is the impact of long-term cohort building, professional development, and access to culturally-responsive mentors and role models on student retention and success; and lastly, what measures and metrics can be used to assess the effectiveness of mentorship and role models in COM science fields.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.