Conference: Cultivating Geoscience Careers Pathways at HBCUs and Women-Only Colleges in South Carolina and Georgia

南卡罗来纳州州立大学（SCSU），在南卡罗来纳州和吉吉亚超过17个其他学术机构合作，将在萨凡纳组织一个为期1.5天的会议，佐治亚州，将汇集学术，公共和私营部门代表的多元化星座，以建立领导力，加强合作伙伴关系，并提高历史上黑人学院和大学（HBCU）的能力，以及南卡罗来纳州和格鲁吉亚的女子学院，以多样化，加强和扩大快速发展的地球科学劳动力。会议的成果将包括一份报告，概述了与参与机构的学生为不同的地球科学职业道路做好准备有关的差距，挑战和机会。该报告将包括学术界、公共和私营部门应对这些差距、挑战和机遇的建议。该项目将启动实践社区的基础，继续学习和分享良好的做法和想法，超越奖励期。会议组织者将汇集来自HBCU和SC和GA的女性专用机构的教师和管理人员，资助机构代表，以及私营和公共部门的雇主。会议的目标是：1）确定课程差距和与学生缺乏地球科学工作准备有关的挑战，2）为参与机构，雇主和资助机构制定建议，以解决差距和挑战，3）为未来的合作奠定基础。该项目由地球科学理事会海洋科学部（OCE）、研究、创新、协同和教育部（RISE）以及刺激竞争性研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）联合资助。该奖项反映了NSF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力审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

South Carolina State University (SCSU), in collaboration with over seventeen other academic institutions in South Carolina and Geogia, will organize a 1.5 days-long conference in Savannah, GA that will bring together a diverse constellation of academic, public, and private sector representatives to build leadership, enhance partnerships, and improve the capacity of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and women-only colleges in South Carolina and Georgia to diversify, strengthen, and expand a rapidly evolving geoscience workforce. Outcomes of the conference will include a report outlining gaps, challenges, and opportunities linked to preparing students at participating institutions for diverse geoscience career pathways. The report will include recommendations for academia, public, and private sectors to address those gaps, challenges, and opportunities. This project will launch the foundation for a community of practice that continues to learn and share good practices and ideas, beyond the award period.The conference organizers will bring together faculty and administrators from HBCUs and women-only institutions in SC and GA, funding-agency representatives, and employers in private and public sectors. The goal of the conference is to 1) identify curriculum gaps and challenges linked to lack of preparation for students for geoscience jobs, 2) develop recommendations for participating institutions, employers and funding agencies to address the gaps and challenges, and 3) lay the groundwork for future collaborations. This project is jointly funded by Directorate of Geosciences' Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE) and the Division of Research, Innovations, Synergies and Education (RISE), and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.