ICE-TI: A Decolonized Approach to an AAS in Social and Behavioral Sciences

部落学院和大学计划（TCUP）的一个目标是提高为美国土著学生服务的特定高等教育机构的科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教学和研究能力。扩大这些机构的STEM课程，为学生提供在STEM领域追求具有挑战性、回报丰厚的职业的机会，为可能具有文化意义的领域提供研究，并鼓励社区和世代对科学和数学教育的欣赏。这个项目直接符合这一目标，而且可以作为类似高等教育机构开发行为科学学位课程的典范和动力。它还大力支持红湖国家学院（RLNC）的使命，即提供以红湖国家的奥吉布语言和文化为基础的高质量STEM教学。考虑到社区的巨大需求和就业机会，许多RLNC学生对社会科学领域的职业感兴趣，但他们面临着很少的正规教育。RLNC以其独特的地位，在红湖民族文化、语言和传统的背景下提供社会和行为科学的教学，正在改进和升级其现有的社会和行为科学课程，以满足学生、客户、社会服务机构和明尼苏达州高等教育办公室的需求。RLNC正在为其AAS学位课程注入更多针对特定项目的课程和体验成分，并将包括开发和实施红湖国家学院机构审查委员会。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。

A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to increase the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructional and research capacities of specific institutions of higher education that serve the Nation's indigenous students. Expanding the STEM curricular offerings at these institutions expands the opportunities for their students to pursue challenging, rewarding careers in STEM fields, provides for research studies in areas that may be culturally significant, and encourages a community and generational appreciation for science and mathematics education. This project aligns directly with that goal, and moreover may serve as a model and impetus for similar institutions of higher education to develop degree programs in the behavioral sciences. It also strongly supports the Red Lake Nation College (RLNC) mission to provide high quality STEM instruction that is grounded in the Ojibwe language and culture of the Red Lake Nation.Given the significant community need and workforce opportunity, many RLNC students are interested in careers in the social sciences, but are faced with little formal education available to them. RLNC, from its unique position to provide instruction in the social and behavioral sciences in the context of Red Lake Nation culture, language, and traditions, is revamping and upgrading its current social and behavioral science offerings so that it meets the needs of students, clients, social services agencies, and the Minnesota Office of Higher Education. RLNC is infusing its AAS degree program with more program-specific curriculum and experiential components and will include development and implementation of a Red Lake Nation College Institutional Review Board.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.