GP-IMPACT: Collaborative Research: Geoscientist Development (GEODE): Recruiting and Engaging the future Geoscience workforce

GP-IMPACT：协作研究：地球科学家发展 (GEODE)：招募和吸引未来的地球科学劳动力

• 批准号: 1600284
• 负责人: Mary Droser
• 金额: $ 41.23万
• 依托单位: University of California-Riverside
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-15 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1600284&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; IMPACT; Collaborative; Research; Geoscientist

The Geoscientist Development (GEODE) Program: Recruiting and Engaging the Future Geoscience Workforce is a program designed to draw high school and community college students in Riverside County, CA into geoscience majors and careers. This program represents a collaboration between the University of California, Riverside (UCR), Riverside Community College (RCC), and the Riverside Unified School District (RUSD), with engagement opportunities for additional community colleges and public school districts in the region. The American Geosciences Institute predicts that the geoscience workforce faces a potential shortfall of ~135,000 by the year 2020 unless recruitment rates are improved. The GEODE Program addresses this potential shortfall by focusing recruitment on communities that are historically underrepresented in the geosciences and thus represent an untapped pool of intellectual capital. Riverside County, located east of Los Angeles County in Southern California, is densely populated (2.3 million), highly diverse (47.4% Hispanic), and home to a wide range of geoscience career opportunities, and is therefore an ideal region in which to recruit new geoscientists.The GEODE Program has two goals: (1) To create a range of programs designed to increase the number of underrepresented minority students in the geosciences and successfully usher them into the geoscience workforce, and (2) To test the efficacy of these programs in order to determine which programs should be used to increase recruitment and retention of new geoscientists from underrepresented minorities in other regions and by other institutions. The GEODE Program is increasing the recruitment and retention of a highly diverse and academically prepared workforce by increasing awareness of career opportunities in the geosciences and improving students' transitions through three critical educational junctures: (1) High School to College (2-Year and 4-Year), (2) Community College to University, and (3) University to Workforce. At each critical juncture, the GEODE Program is creating opportunities for students to be exposed to the wonders of the natural world through a multitude of field and research experiences. The program also provides students with mentors, academic support and professional development programs to ensure retention and success. By leveraging the success of existing support programs at UCR for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) students from underrepresented backgrounds, the GEODE Program is creating a geoscience network throughout its collaborating institutions.

地球科学家发展计划：招聘和吸引未来的地球科学劳动力是一项计划，旨在吸引加利福尼亚州河滨县的高中和社区大学生进入地球科学专业和职业。该计划代表了加利福尼亚大学，河滨大学（UCR），河滨社区学院（RCC）和河滨统一学区（RUSD）之间的合作，并为该地区的其他社区学院和公立学区提供了参与机会。美国地球科学研究所（American Geosciences Institute）预测，除非提高招聘率，否则地球科学劳动力可能会在2020年面临约13.5万人的短缺。 Geode计划通过将招募重点放在地球科学中代表的智力资本库中的历史不足，解决了这一潜在的短缺。位于南加州洛杉矶县以东的河滨县人口稠密（230万），高度多样化（47.4％的西班牙裔），并且拥有广泛的地球科学职业机会，因此是招募新的地球科学家计划的理想区域。他们进入地球科学的劳动力，（2）测试这些计划的功效，以确定应使用哪些计划来增加其他地区和其他机构中代表性不足的少数群体的招聘和保留。 Geode计划通过提高对地球科学的职业机会的认识，并通过三个关键的教育结构提高学生的职业机会的认识，从而增加了高度多样化和学术准备的劳动力的招聘和保留：（1）高中对学院（2年和4年），（2年），（2）社区学院，以及（3）大学，以及（3）大学。在每个关键关头，Geode计划都在为学生通过多种领域和研究经验创造机会，使学生接触到自然界的奇观。 该计划还为学生提供导师，学术支持和专业发展计划，以确保保留和成功。通过利用来自代表性不足背景的UCR的UCR，技术，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学生的现有支持计划的成功，Geode计划在其整个协作机构中都在创建一个地球科学网络。