Collaborative Project Track 2, METALS: Minority Education Through Traveling and Learning in the Sciences

合作项目轨道 2，METALS：通过科学旅行和学习进行少数民族教育

• 批准号: 0914555
• 负责人: Kenneth Ridgway
• 金额: $ 32.21万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-15 至 2015-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0914555&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Project; Track; METALS; Minority

The METALS (Minority Education Through Traveling and Learning in the Sciences) represents a multi-institution collaboration to broaden participation in STEM fields by creating meaningful geoscience experiences among groups typically underrepresented in the geosciences and to motivate these groups to choose academic and career paths in the geosciences. The METALS program aligns four universities with strong field geology programs, an institutional history of emphasizing teaching and mentoring in the geosciences, and a commitment to providing access to college for large populations of underrepresented minorities. A strategic alliance of active geoscience diversity programs at San Francisco State University, the University of Texas at El Paso, the University of New Orleans, and Purdue University is being used to engage minority high school students in experiential learning opportunities through field-based settings. Project activities include: (1) Four 10-day instructional field trips, each for 40 high school students selected from each of the four university regions. The field trips take place in a different region each year: California and the Pacific Coast, the Colorado Plateau and Southwest, the northern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains, and the Gulf Coast. (2) Professor and graduate student-led field seminars and colloquia designed to connect underrepresented students with a deeper understanding of how Earth science processes impact local communities, how place-based understanding of landscapes varies among cultures, and the geological configuration of the U.S. (3) The building of pathways and support systems among the universities, first through students traveling and learning together in the geosciences, and second through social networking and 'virtual' sharing during the academic year resulting in an expanded network of mentor friends and a broader connection to faculty outside their department that will encourage and support student effort throughout their careers. (4) Engagement of minority graduate and undergraduate students in the program through field and research projects that grow out of data collected during the summer programs. The METALS program is expected to: significantly affect the academic choices of minority students as it relates to their choice of major and course selection in college; promote excitement about geology in a field setting while gaining a mutual respect, interdependence and trust among individuals of different ethnicities; and, strengthen the collaboration and knowledge base among partners toward encouraging diversity in the geosciences.

METALS（通过科学旅行和学习进行少数民族教育）代表了一项多机构合作，旨在通过在地球科学领域通常代表性不足的群体中创造有意义的地球科学经验来扩大对 STEM 领域的参与，并激励这些群体选择科学领域的学术和职业道路。地球科学。 METALS 项目将四所大学联合起来，提供强大的野外地质学项目、强调地球科学教学和指导的机构历史，并致力于为大量代表性不足的少数族裔提供进入大学的机会。旧金山州立大学、德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校、新奥尔良大学和普渡大学积极的地球科学多样性项目组成的战略联盟正在利用实地环境让少数族裔高中生获得体验式学习机会。项目活动包括： (1) 4 次为期 10 天的教学实地考察，每次由从四个大学地区各选拔的 40 名高中生参加。实地考察每年在不同的地区进行：加利福尼亚州和太平洋海岸、科罗拉多高原和西南部、落基山脉北部和大平原以及墨西哥湾沿岸。 (2) 教授和研究生主导的实地研讨会和座谈会，旨在让代表性不足的学生更深入地了解地球科学过程如何影响当地社区、基于地点的景观理解如何因文化而异以及美国的地质构造（ 3）建立大学之间的途径和支持系统，首先通过学生在地球科学方面一起旅行和学习，其次通过学年期间的社交网络和“虚拟”共享，从而扩大导师朋友的网络和更广泛的范围与系外教师的联系将鼓励和支持学生在整个职业生涯中的努力。 (4) 通过根据暑期项目收集的数据开展实地研究和研究项目，让少数民族研究生和本科生参与该项目。 METALS 计划预计将： 显着影响少数族裔学生的学术选择，因为这关系到他们在大学的专业选择和课程选择；促进人们对野外地质学的兴趣，同时在不同种族的个人之间获得相互尊重、相互依赖和信任；并加强合作伙伴之间的合作和知识基础，以鼓励地球科学的多样性。