HSI Institutional Transformation Project: Center for Equitable Environmental Sciences

在改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）的支持下，第三轨道HSI机构转型项目（ITP）：公平环境科学中心（CEES），旨在提高STEM专业中代表性不足群体学生的保留率。拥有这些身份的大一新生和转学生在没有有意义的实习经历的情况下离开了自己宣布的STEM专业。让来自不同背景的学生留在STEM专业是培养下一代环境领导者的关键一步。通过突出科学与社会之间的联系，加州大学圣巴巴拉分校和圣巴巴拉城市学院（SBCC）的STEM教师将为STEM教育提供创新方法，并就科学和技术的社会影响提出新的研究问题。最后，CEES将通过出版物和会议演讲向HSI社区传播STEM教育的最佳实践。该项目将以环境正义为主题，通过UCSB奇卡诺人研究所内的一个新的公平环境科学中心，促进STEM交叉身份的形成，以提供指导、学习社区和STEM实习安排。与文化相关的指导加上学习社区将通过培养STEM专业更大的归属感来增强学生的体验。它将与就业服务中心合作，为UCSB和SBCC的教师开发新的环境与社会职业发展轨道和专业发展计划，以提高教学技能和跨学科研究项目，从而促进与非营利机构和政府机构合作的本科生实习机会。CEES将提供基于多样性、公平、包容和正义（DEIJ）原则的实习经验。该项目以种族环境正义的集群招聘为基础，旨在通过CEES为1000名学生提供服务，指导300名学生，发展300个实习机会，并在两个HSI校区培训75名教师进行专业发展活动。HSI计划旨在加强HSI的本科STEM教育和能力建设。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 3 HSI Institutional Transformation Project (ITP): Center for Equitable Environmental Sciences (CEES), aims to improve retention of students from groups underrepresented in STEM majors. Both first-year and transfer students who share these identities disproportionately leave declared STEM majors without a meaningful internship experience. Maintaining students from diverse backgrounds in STEM majors is a key step to building the next generation of environmental leaders. By foregrounding the linkages between science and society, STEM faculty at UCSB and Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) will generate innovative approaches to STEM education and novel research questions about the societal implications of science and technology. Finally, CEES will disseminate STEM education best practices to HSI communities through publications and conference presentations. This project will use the theme of environmental justice to facilitate the formation of intersectional STEM identities through a new Center for Equitable Environmental Sciences housed within the UCSB Chicano Studies Institute to provide mentoring, learning communities, and placement in STEM internships. Culturally relevant mentoring coupled with learning communities will enhance student experiences by fostering a greater sense of belonging within STEM majors. In collaboration with the Career Services Center, it will develop a new Environment and Society career track and a professional development program for UCSB and SBCC faculty that develops both pedagogical skills and interdisciplinary research projects that facilitate undergraduate internship opportunities in partnership with non-profit and government agencies. CEES will provide internship experiences anchored in principles of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ). Building on cluster hiring in racial environmental justice, this project aims to serve 1000 students through CEES, mentor 300 students, develop 300 internships, and train 75 faculty across two HSI campuses in professional development activities. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.