GP-EXTRA: Expanding an Innovative Pathway to Replenish the Geoscience Workforce with Underrepresented Minority Non-Geoscience STEM Majors

GP-EXTRA：拓展创新途径，通过代表性不足的少数非地球科学 STEM 专业来补充地球科学劳动力

• 批准号: 1801563
• 负责人: Reginald Blake
• 金额: $ 30.99万
• 依托单位: CUNY New York City College of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1801563&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; EXTRA; Expanding; Innovative; Pathway

This project at the New York City College of Technology (City Tech) seeks to expand and to sustain a year-round geoscience workforce preparation and geoscience career mentoring program for non-geoscience minority STEM students beginning at the critical juncture of their junior or senior year. The overall goal of the program is to create a sustainable pathway to the dwindling geoscience workforce by tapping into this non-traditional pool of students. Eleven students will be recruited each year to participate in the structured geoscience workforce model program that consists of geoscience - Exposure, Preparation, Apprenticeship, and Experience. The initiative will bring together City Tech, Medgar Evers College and federal, local, and private geoscience industry partners that include: NYC Department of Environmental Protection, NYC Department of Transportation, NYC Emergency Management, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Cary Institute, and Partner Engineering and Science. City Tech and its partners will collaborate to achieve the following objectives: 1) create pathways for non-geoscience STEM majors to pursue careers in the geosciences; 2) provide hands-on geoscience training via the use of geoscience instrumentation, models, and data sets; and 3) engage students in transformative geoscience internship programs. The proposed activities combine year-long geoscience workforce experiences with multi-tiered mentoring, industry support systems, and a robust geoscience networking community to produce holistic and engaging stimuli for the workforce development of the participants. The scientific, educational, and geoscience workforce value of this project derives from two main sources: 1) a focus on the transfer of learning from STEM knowledge to real-world geoscience problems, operations, and workforce development, and 2) the expertise of geoscience practitioners at federal, local, and private facilities, all of whom are highly trained geoscience professionals.This project at the New York City College of Technology (City Tech) seeks to expand and to sustain a year-round geoscience workforce preparation and geoscience career mentoring program for non-geoscience minority STEM students beginning at the critical juncture of their junior or senior year. The overall goal of the program is to create a sustainable pathway to the dwindling geoscience workforce by tapping into this non-traditional pool of students. Eleven students will be recruited each year to participate in the structured geoscience workforce model program that consists of geoscience - Exposure, Preparation, Apprenticeship, and Experience. The expectation through this initiative will be that many underrepresented minority (URM) STEM students who would otherwise not pursue a geoscience career may now choose to follow a geoscience career that could not only lead to lucrative jobs, but could also help to ameliorate the nation's grave geoscience workforce dilemma. A multi-sector geoscience workforce development infrastructure will then be developed. To address the project's main research enquiries, the program was designed with the following goals and objectives: Goal 1: To broaden the geoscience workforce pathway for non-geoscience minority STEM majors; Goal 2: To create a multi-sector geoscience workforce development infrastructure. Each component of the program: Exposure, Preparation, Apprenticeship, and Experience will be evaluated individually. Additionally, surveys, focus groups, and pre-post geoscience knowledge and laboratory tests will be used for both formative and summative assessments of the program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

纽约城市理工学院 (City Tech) 的这个项目旨在从大三或大四的关键时刻开始，为非地球科学少数族裔 STEM 学生扩大和维持全年的地球科学劳动力准备和地球科学职业指导计划。该计划的总体目标是通过利用非传统的学生群体，为日益减少的地球科学劳动力创造一条可持续的途径。每年将招募 11 名学生参加结构化地球科学劳动力模型计划，该计划包括地球科学 - 接触、准备、学徒和经验。该倡议将汇集城市科技、梅德加埃弗斯学院以及联邦、地方和私营地球科学行业合作伙伴，其中包括：纽约市环境保护部、纽约市交通部、纽约市应急管理部、美国环境保护局、布鲁克海文国家实验室、卡里研究所，以及合作伙伴工程和科学。 City Tech 及其合作伙伴将合作实现以下目标：1）为非地球科学 STEM 专业的学生在地球科学领域追求职业生涯创造途径； 2) 通过使用地球科学仪器、模型和数据集提供地球科学实践培训； 3) 让学生参与变革性的地球科学实习项目。拟议的活动将长达一年的地球科学劳动力经验与多层次指导、行业支持​​系统和强大的地球科学网络社区结合起来，为参与者的劳动力发展提供全面且有吸引力的刺激。该项目的科学、教育和地球科学劳动力价值来自两个主要来源：1) 注重将 STEM 知识的学习转移到现实世界的地球科学问题、运营和劳动力发展，2) 地球科学的专业知识联邦、地方和私人机构的从业人员，他们都是训练有素的地球科学专业人员。纽约市理工学院 (City Tech) 的这个项目旨在扩大和维持全年的地球科学劳动力准备和地球科学职业指导计划为从大三或大四的关键时刻开始的非地球科学少数群体 STEM 学生。该计划的总体目标是通过利用非传统的学生群体，为日益减少的地球科学劳动力创造一条可持续的途径。每年将招募 11 名学生参加结构化地球科学劳动力模型计划，该计划包括地球科学 - 接触、准备、学徒和经验。通过这一举措，我们期望许多原本不会从事地球科学职业的少数族裔 (URM) STEM 学生现在可能会选择从事地球科学职业，这不仅可以带来利润丰厚的工作，还可以帮助改善国家的环境地球科学劳动力的困境。随后将开发多部门地球科学劳动力发展基础设施。为了解决该项目的主要研究问题，该计划的设计目标如下： 目标 1：拓宽非地球科学少数 STEM 专业的地球科学劳动力途径；目标 2：创建多部门地球科学劳动力发展基础设施。该计划的每个组成部分：接触、准备、学徒和经验都将单独评估。此外，调查、焦点小组、事前地球科学知识和实验室测试将用于该计划的形成性和总结性评估。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和能力进行评估，被认为值得支持。更广泛的影响审查标准。