GP-Impact: Freshman Year to Geoscience Career

GP-Impact：地球科学职业的新生

• 批准号: 1540730
• 负责人: Allan Ludman
• 金额: $ 37.11万
• 依托单位: CUNY Queens College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1540730&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; Impact; Freshman; Year; Geoscience

The "Freshman Year To Geoscience Career" project addresses the important national goal of recruiting, retaining, and preparing the next generation workforce in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines, with specific focus on increasing diversity in the geosciences. Today, nearly 45% of all college students begin their undergraduate education at a community college; for underrepresented minority (URM) college students, the community college starting point is even larger (54%). These students are often underrepresented in the geosciences, underprepared academically, and burdened by unique obstacles due to socioeconomic status and family responsibilities. Few are aware of geoscience as a possible career. If these students transfer successfully into a bachelor's degree program, they are often delayed in completion of their degrees because of inadequate math preparation and missing prerequisites, as well as the common necessity of working 20-40 hours/week to support themselves and their families. Many drop out of the pipeline, either because they are unable to complete the rigorous degree requirements or because they feel isolated and a sense of "not belonging." Even if they complete their degrees, many of these students are first in their families to go to college and have little idea of how and when to plan for what follows graduation. To address these obstacles, this project is creating a seamless, supportive path from the time a student chooses a college major to when s/he enters graduate school or employment as a geoscientist. This multi-campus partnership between Queens College, a 4-year college in the City University of New York (CUNY) system, and LaGuardia and Queensborough Community Colleges guarantees help for students from unusually diverse ethnic and economic backgrounds, regardless of where they first enter the education pipeline. Innovative strategies in this effort address transitions at four key points at which students make or confirm the decision to pursue a career in Geology or Environmental Science, or to drop out of the STEM pipeline: 1) Starting a geoscience career path at a community college; 2) Transfer from a 2-year to 4-year college; 3) Completing a rigorous geoscience major; and 4) Transition to graduate school or geoscience employment. Through customized workshops and outreach at the community colleges, students are building the skills needed for a science career and being provided with information about career options and salaries in the geosciences. Coordinated multi-campus recruiting and advising by peers and faculty from all three campuses are helping students make strategic coursework choices that better articulate with the degree requirements at the 4-year institution. A unique geoscience learning community spanning all three campuses is helping to make the transition from 2-year to 4-year seamless. New majors have an opportunity to mingle with advanced students and faculty from the Queens College campuses before and throughout the academic year at academic (colloquia, field trips) and social events. By the time they transfer from their community college, students know the Queens faculty and the best path to degree completion. Modest stipends are being provided that make possible a geoscience service-learning culture for superior students, saving travel to and from off-campus jobs unrelated to their career goals. Stipend recipients serve as teaching aides and tutors in introductory courses, helping others understand basic concepts while deepening their own understanding. Some tutees will become the next generation of geoscience majors and tutors. Because calculus is known nationally as one of the major obstacles to completing a geoscience degree, free tutoring is being provided by Time 2000, a Queens College initiative that trains students to become high school math teachers. To better prepare students for their lives after graduation, the project is offering a series of workshops, starting in the freshman year, that help individuals choose job or graduate school; write resumes, personal statements, and application letters; and learn interview skills.The principal intellectual merit of this project is to test two innovative models for improving student engagement, academic performance, and retention: 1) a unique discipline-specific learning community spanning three urban campuses - two Associates (community college) and one Bachelor's-Master's college, and 2) a service-learning approach to engaging students that removes or lessens the need of financially challenged geoscience majors to work off-campus at jobs unrelated to their professional goals. Although the "Freshman Year to Geoscience Career" project is designed specifically to increase the number and diversity of geoscience students at the participating CUNY system campuses, the problems it addresses are endemic and the solutions it offers can serve as a model across all academic institutions and disciplines.

“地球科学大一新生”项目探讨了招募，保留和准备科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科的下一代劳动力的重要国家目标，并特别关注地球科学多样性。如今，将近45％的大学生在一所社区学院开始了他们的本科教育。对于代表性不足的少数民族（URM）大学生，社区大学的起点甚至更大（54％）。这些学生通常在地球科学中的人数不足，在学术上得到了准备，并且由于社会经济地位和家庭责任而受到独特的障碍负担。很少有人知道地球科学是可能的职业。 如果这些学生成功转入学士学位课程，则由于数学准备不足和缺失的先决条件以及每周工作20-40小时以支持自己及其家人的共同需要，他们通常会延迟其学位。许多人退出了管道，要么是因为他们无法完成严格的学位要求，要么是因为他们感到孤立和“不属于归属”。 即使他们完成了学位，其中许多学生还是第一个在家庭中上大学，对如何以及何时计划毕业的内容一无所知。为了解决这些障碍，从学生选择大学专业的时候到他/她进入研究生院或以地球科学家的就业的时间，该项目正在创造一条无缝，支持的道路。皇后学院，纽约市大学的一所4年大学（CUNY）系统，拉瓜迪亚和昆斯伯勒社区学院之间的多校园合作伙伴关系可以为来自异常多样化的种族和经济背景的学生提供帮助，无论他们首先进入教育管道的地方。这项工作中的创新策略涉及学生在四个关键点上的过渡，在这些点上，学生做出或确认从事地质或环境科学职业的决定，或退出STEM管道：1）在社区学院开始地球科学职业道路； 2）从2年的大学转移到4年的大学； 3）完成严格的地球科学专业； 4）过渡到研究生院或地球科学就业。通过社区大学的定制研讨会和宣传，学生正在建立科学职业所需的技能，并获得有关地球科学中职业选择和薪水的信息。 由所有三个校园的同龄人和教师协调的多校区招募和咨询都在帮助学生做出战略课程选择，以更好地表达4年机构的学位要求。 一个独特的地球科学学习社区，跨越了这三个校园，这有助于使从2年到4年的无缝过渡。 New Majors有机会在整个学年（Colloquia，Field Trips）和社交活动中与皇后学院校园的高级学生和教职员工交往。当他们从社区学院转学时，学生知道皇后区的教师和学位完成的最佳途径。正在提供适度的津贴，使得为高级学生提供地球科学服务学习文化，从而节省了与校外的旅行，与他们的职业目标无关。津贴接收者是入门课程中的助手和导师，帮助他人理解基本概念的同时加深了自己的理解。一些音乐将成为下一代的地球科学专业和导师。由于微积分在全国范围内被称为完成地球科学学位的主要障碍之一，因此Time 2000（Time 2000）提供了免费的辅导，这是一项皇后学院的倡议，培训学生成为高中数学老师。为了更好地为学生做好毕业后的生活做好准备，该项目将在大一新生开始提供一系列研讨会，以帮助个人选择工作或研究生院；写简历，个人陈述和申请书；该项目的主要智力优点是测试两个创新的模型，以改善学生的参与度，学习成绩和保留率：1）独特的特定学科的学习社区，跨越了三个城市校园 - 两个同事（社区学院）和一项单身汉硕士学位，以及一项努​​力挑战的工作，以促进努力的工作，以促进努力的工作，以促进努力，以促进努力的工作，以促进努力，以促进组织的努力，以促进努力，以促进努力的工作，这是一项努力的工作，以促进努力的工作，这是有效的，有效地促进了劳动的工作。与他们的职业目标无关。 尽管“大一新生年”项目专门旨在增加参与的CUNY系统校园的地球科学学生的数量和多样性，但其解决的问题是地方性的，其提供的解决方案可以用作所有学术机构和学科的模型。