Sustaining URGE (Unlearning Racism in Geosciences)

忘却地球科学中的种族主义（URGE）是一个社区范围的期刊阅读和政策设计课程，旨在帮助地球科学家忘却种族主义，改善地球科学中的归属感、可及性、正义、公平、多样性和包容性（Be a JEDI）。地球科学仍然是最不多样化的科学领域之一，尽管几十年的努力，该学科的人口结构几乎没有变化。URGE的主要目标是：(1)加深社区对种族主义对黑人、棕色人种、土著和有色人种参与和保留地球科学的影响的认识，(2)利用现有文献、专家意见和个人经验制定反种族主义政策和战略，以及(3)在动态社区网络和国家舞台上分享、讨论和修改反种族主义政策和战略。本提案支持URGE的社群促进活动（例如，虚拟会议和活动）、项目开发和运营的文档记录以及地球科学社群对URGE的响应总结。这些数据对于后期的研究是很重要的，这些研究关注于确定是什么使Be A JEDI计划成功。这些数据还将使我们能够评估URGE的结构和课程是否会导致有效的反种族主义政策和战略，以及参与该项目的机构和组织是否会发生重大的短期和长期变化。忘记地球科学中的种族主义（URGE）是一个社区范围的期刊阅读和政策设计课程，旨在帮助地球科学家忘记种族主义并改善所有社区的学科。URGE的主要结构将地球科学社区聚集在一起，参与旨在教育、提供专家意见和起草地球科学领域反种族主义政策和战略的课程。在八个为期两周的会议中，地球科学家们讨论了种族主义的不同主题，包括身份、历史、正义、可及性、包容性和问责制。每次会议都包括与会议主题相关的可交付成果，并由每个小组通过使用提供的文献知识、该领域专家的访谈、小组讨论和更广泛的社区范围内的讨论来开发。URGE将按照这一为期16周的课程，审查和提炼社区制定的政策，促进各机构的政策会议，并在国家会议上传播研究结果。项目人员将使用经过验证的调查工具的修改版本，分析在16周督促会议结束时收集的数据，这些工具侧重于评估行为变化和对改善归属感、可及性、正义、公平、多样性和包容性（Be A JEDI）的态度。随后将进行纵向调查，以评估督促计划的长期影响。项目人员还将分析URGE参与者的数据，以更好地了解谁参加了该项目，以及未来可能需要做哪些工作，以便将更多的多数身份纳入URGE等项目。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。

Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (URGE) is a community-wide journal-reading and policy-design curriculum to help geoscientists unlearn racism and improve belonging, accessibility, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (Be A JEDI) in Geoscience. The geosciences remain one of the least diverse of the science fields with little change in the demographics of the discipline despite decades of effort. URGE’s primary objectives are to (1) deepen the community’s knowledge of the effects of racism on the participation and retention of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and People of Color in Geoscience, (2) draw on existing literature, expert opinions, and personal experiences to develop anti-racist policies and strategies, and (3) share, discuss and modify anti-racist policies and strategies within a dynamic community network and on a national stage. This proposal supports the community facilitation activities of URGE (e.g., virtual meetings and events), documentation of the development and operations of the program, and summarization of the response of the Geoscience community to URGE. These data are important for later studies focused on identifying what makes Be A JEDI initiatives successful. The data will also allow us to assess whether the structure and curriculum of URGE lead to effective anti-racist policies and strategies and significant short and long-term changes at the institutions and organizations that participated in the program.Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (URGE) is a community-wide journal-reading and policy-design curriculum to help geoscientists unlearn racism and improve the discipline for all communities. URGE’s main structure brings together the geoscience community to participate in a curriculum designed to educate, provide expert opinions, and draft anti-racist policies and strategies in the geosciences. Throughout eight two-week sessions, geoscientists cover different topics on racism, including identity, history, justice, accessibility, inclusivity, and accountability. Each session includes deliverables specific to the session’s topic and developed by each group through the use of knowledge from provided literature, interviews from experts in the field, group discussions, and broader community-wide discourse. URGE will follow this sixteen-week curriculum by reviewing and distilling the policies developed by the community, facilitating policy meetings at institutions, and disseminating the findings at national conferences. Project personnel will analyze data collected at the end of the sixteen-week URGE session using modified versions of validated survey tools that focus on assessing behavior change and attitudes towards improving belonging, accessibility, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (Be A JEDI). This will be followed by longitudinal surveys to evaluate the long-term impacts of the URGE program. Project personnel will also analyze data on URGE participants to better understand who took part in the program and what work may need to be done in the future to bring in more majority identities into programs like URGE.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.