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

这项NSF INCLUDES规划拨款由美国国家科学基金会全国工程和科学领域未被充分代表的发现者学习者社区（NSF INCLUDES）资助，这是一项全面的国家倡议，旨在通过关注多样性、包容性和扩大STEM的大规模参与来增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沿海、海洋和海洋企业包容和网络建设（COME IN）。该项目包括一系列便利的虚拟和面对面的参与机会，将来自不同沿海、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，了解来自代表性不足和资源不足社区的学生的动态需求，建立一个协作基础设施，以加强和扩大代表性不足的少数民族（URM）的实习项目，基于Sea Grant的社区参与实习项目。并评估资源需求，以成功形成新的和扩展的框架，以确保URM学生在COM劳动力中的持久性和成功。除了促进参与者学习和建立关系之外，COME In还促进了各种COM组织、机构和企业之间的沟通和协作。该项目利用多种方式捕捉不同的观点，包括来自服务不足和代表性不足的社区的个人的生活和专业经验，这些社区可能无法参加虚拟或面对面的COME in会议。该规划项目的重点是在合作伙伴、伙伴关系、目标和指标之间建立共同的愿景，并开发用于共享经验教训和最佳实践的协作基础设施的健壮机制。COME IN提出的扩大参与的挑战基于两个基本问题：(i)关注COM的专业协会、政府和非政府组织、企业和学术界如何实现公正、公平、多样性和包容原则；（ii）合作组织如何有效地支持、衡量和复制URM在本科及以上COM科学学科中的成功。为了应对这一挑战，COME IN围绕以下问题展开讨论：哪些独特的需求和挑战有助于或阻碍来自代表性不足和资源不足社区的学生攻读计算机科学领域的学位；在支持这些学生在COM领域的参与、坚持和成功方面，哪些工具、方法和实践是最有效的；传统和本地知识与西方科学研究方法的整合如何有助于学生科学家身份的发展；专业团体、政府和非政府组织、企业和学术界如何创造更具包容性和安全的工作环境，培养学生的归属感？长期的队伍建设、专业发展、接触符合文化的导师和榜样对学生的留存和成功有何影响？最后，可以使用哪些度量和指标来评估COM科学领域的指导和角色模型的有效性。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。

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.