A Track 1 Proposal for Creating a Pipeline for Diversity in the Geosciences: A Sustainability-based Approach

创建地球科学多样性管道的第一轨道提案：基于可持续性的方法

• 批准号: 0914513
• 负责人: William Hansen
• 金额: $ 19.97万
• 依托单位: Worcester State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0914513&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Track; Proposal; Creating; Pipeline; Diversity

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Worcester State College (WSC) is working with the local school district in the City of Worcester, MA, to increase diversity in undergraduate geoscience programs through the creation of an integrated pipeline for engaging students at a variety of levels. In this district, 35.7% of the students are Latino, 12.9% are African-American, and 7.8% are Asian-American giving the program particular impact on under-represented populations. Key to this project is a strategic partnership with the Worcester Vocational Technical High School Environmental Technologies program.The project will establish these connections through a series of interlinked curricular programs, internships, and facilitation agreements between WSC and surrounding schools. The first initiative is to develop a curriculum enrichment program for middle schools teachers, the only level in public education where the geosciences are an explicit part of the curriculum in Massachusetts. The next phase in our project is to establish an internship project that will pair minority youth in Worcester with sustainability based organizations and enterprises. We have partnered with Worcester Mass Audubon, Harvard Forest in Petersham, MA, the Regional Environmental Council and youth groups like Toxic Soil Busters to develop this program. The culmination of the high school internship program will be to encourage successful interns to take advantage of an articulation agreement between WSC and area high schools that will allow them to take college level courses in the geosciences. Gaining exposure to the college environment and earning college credit will give these students a significant experiential and economic advantage should they chose to pursue an advanced degree. The aim is to create a pathway from the public schools to the WSC Earth Science program. Most students who graduate from Worcester State College remain in the area after graduation so this endeavor we will produce graduates who will go on to teach geosciences at the secondary level in the surrounding communities, further cementing these institutional relationships.

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏与再投资法》（公法111-5）资助的。 伍斯特州立大学（WSC）正在与马萨诸塞州伍斯特市的当地学区合作，以通过创建一条综合管道来吸引各个级别的学生来增加本科地球科学计划的多样性。在该地区，有35.7％的学生是拉丁裔，12.9％是非裔美国人，而亚裔美国人为7.8％，对该计划的人口尤其影响。该项目的关键是与伍斯特职业技术高中环境技术计划的战略合作伙伴关系。该项目将通过一系列相互联系的课程计划，实习和WSC与周围学校之间的协议建立这些联系。 第一个倡议是为中学教师制定课程丰富计划，这是公共教育中唯一的地球科学是马萨诸塞州课程的明确部分。我们项目的下一个阶段是建立一个实习项目，将伍斯特的少数族裔青年与基于可持续性的组织和企业相结合。 我们已经与马萨诸塞州彼得瑟姆的伍斯特大众奥杜邦，哈佛森林，区域环境委员会和像有毒土壤混蛋的青年团体合作开发了该计划。 高中实习计划的高潮将是鼓励成功的实习生利用WSC与地区高中之间的表达协议，这将使他们能够参加地球科学的大学水平课程。 如果他们选择攻读高级学位，那么获得大学环境并获得大学学分将使这些学生具有很大的体验和经济优势。目的是创建从公立学校到WSC地球科学计划的途径。毕业后，大多数从伍斯特州立大学毕业的学生仍留在该地区，因此我们将培养毕业生，他们将继续在周围社区的二级教授地球科学教授，进一步巩固了这些机构关系。