OEDG Planning Workshop to establish URECAS: Unique Research Experiences for two-year College faculty And Students

OEDG 规划研讨会建立 URECAS：为两年制大学教师和学生提供独特的研究体验

• 批准号: 1201578
• 负责人: Pranoti Asher
• 金额: $ 3.44万
• 依托单位: American Geophysical Union
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-04-01 至 2014-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1201578&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: OEDG; Planning; Workshop; establish; URECAS

In this planning effort, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) will lay the foundations for developing the Unique Research Experiences for two-year College faculty And Students (URECAS) program, which is intended to support Earth and space science faculty at two-year colleges as they engage their undergraduate students in research activities. AGU is convening a two-day workshop with 30 attendees to increase awareness about existing opportunities for summer research experiences for undergraduates, identify best practices for engaging two-year college students in research, and consider strategies for overcoming some of the barriers to success. The ultimate goal of this effort is to establish a distributed community of two-year college instructors engaged in geoscience research and develop a strategic plan for new programs that help undergraduate students successfully transition between two-year and four-year programs in the geosciences. Many students who attend two-year colleges come from underrepresented communities in STEM disciplines; as such, this project directly supports the NSF and GEO Directorate goals of broadening participation in STEM disciplines, in general, and in the geosciences, specifically.

在这项规划工作中，美国地球物理联盟（AGU）将为开发两年制大学教师和学生的独特研究体验（URECAS）计划奠定基础，该计划旨在支持两年制大学的地球和空间科学教师因为他们让本科生参与研究活动。 AGU 正在召开为期两天的研讨会，有 30 名与会者参加，以提高本科生对现有暑期研究体验机会的认识，确定让两年制大学生参与研究的最佳实践，并考虑克服一些成功障碍的策略。 这项工作的最终目标是建立一个由从事地球科学研究的两年制大学教师组成的分布式社区，并制定新项目的战略计划，帮助本科生在地球科学领域的两年制和四年制课程之间成功过渡。 许多就读两年制大学的学生来自 STEM 学科中代表性不足的社区；因此，该项目直接支持 NSF 和 GEO 理事会扩大 STEM 学科（特别是地球科学）参与的目标。