Workshopping and relationship-building to promote pathways in STEM higher education: UCLA and NTU

研讨会和建立关系以促进 STEM 高等教育的途径：加州大学洛杉矶分校和南洋理工大学

• 批准号: 1933148
• 负责人: Aradhna Tripati
• 金额: $ 4.96万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1933148&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshopping; relationship; building; promote; pathways

Higher education transformation leads to opportunities to influence culture at multiple scales. However, higher education STEM culture and the low levels of diversity in the geosciences and related STEM fields pose major barriers that adversely impact scientific innovation, workforce development, and social and economic justice. The STEM cultures at both UCLA and NTU both are poised to transition to become more inclusive because of a group of faculty that have developed relationships through an initial visit. This funding will support the exchange of students and faculty to provide opportunities to learn about environmental challenges and scientific questions being addressed in ongoing research.As part of a new initiative at the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science, faculty and students are developing relationships between UCLA and minority-serving institutions to promote pathways in STEM higher education. One of the major objectives is to increase the recruitment and retention of indigenous students within the environmental sciences. This fits into the Center's long-term goal of changing the culture of STEM higher education to empower a diverse national and global community to address environmental and technological challenges, while moving towards a more just and inclusive world. To help achieve the objective, this proposal supports meetings and relationship-building between students and faculty at Navajo Technical University (NTU) and UCLA. Outcomes will include strengthened pathways in STEM higher education for indigenous students, higher rates of recruitment and retention in the geosciences and related STEM fields, and improved cultural awareness.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.

高等教育的转变导致有机会在多个范围内影响文化。但是，高等教育的茎文化和地球科学和相关茎领域的多样性较低，构成了主要障碍，从而对科学创新，劳动力发展以及社会和经济正义产生不利影响。加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）和NTU的STEM文化都准备过渡到更具包容性，因为一群通过初次访问发展了关系的教师。这项资金将支持学生和教职员工的交流，以提供机会，以了解正在进行的研究中解决环境挑战和科学问题。作为科学多元化领导力中心的一项新计划的一部分，教职员工和学生正在发展UCLA与少数族裔服务机构之间的关系，以促进STEM高等教育的途径。主要目标之一是增加环境科学中土著学生的招募和保留。这符合该中心的长期目标，即改变STEM高等教育的文化，以赋予一个多样化的民族和全球社区，以应对环境和技术挑战，同时朝着更加公正和包容的世界发展。为了帮助实现目标，该建议支持纳瓦霍技术大学（NTU）和UCLA的学生与教职员工之间的会议和建立关系。结果将包括在STEM高等教育中为土著学生加强途径，地球科学和相关STEM领域的招聘和保留率的较高，并提高了文化意识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来获得支持的人。