GP EXTRA: MINORITIES STRIVING AND PURSUING HIGHER DEGREES OF SUCCESS in GEO REU (MS PHD?S-GEO REU) PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

GP Extra：少数民族在 GEO REU (MS PHD?S-GEO REU) 专业发展计划中努力并追求更高程度的成功

• 批准号: 1945825
• 负责人: Ashanti Johnson
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Fort Valley State University
• 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: 2019-01-01 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1945825&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; EXTRA; MINORITIES; STRIVING; PURSUING

Numerous reports from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and the National Research Council (NRC) have documented the need to increase diversity within STEM disciplines as being vital to our nation's innovation agenda, economic prosperity, and global competitiveness. Although slow progress in broadening participation in some STEM disciplines is being made, the geosciences community still has a long way to go before the number of African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and persons with disabilities are earning degrees and pursuing careers in the geosciences at a level that is consistent with their demographic representation. Both recruitment of new underrepresented minority (URM) students into STEM majors and retention of those students who are already in the education and career pipeline are needed to make progress on this goal.The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and the Institute for Broadening Participation (IBP) are implementing a 3-year program to provide virtual and on-site professional development, networking, community building and mentoring activities to 45 URM students who have participated in geoscience-related Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) Site programs. The goals of this program are focused on retention of students who have already demonstrated an interest in the geosciences, but who are at risk of leaving the field because of isolation, lack of role models, and lack of mentors who can help guide them to the next stages of their professional success. The "Minorities Striving and Pursuing Higher Degrees of Success in GEO REU" (MS PHD'S-GEO REU) program builds on a successful pilot effort, leveraging previous NSF investments to build model programs for recruitment, retention, and leadership development of traditionally underrepresented students in STEM disciplines. The program uses evidence-based mentoring concepts that are rooted in the theories of situated learning and authentic learning. Career exposure and professional socialization activities are embedded. A rigorous recruitment, application, and selection process is being used to identify three cohorts (15 each) of students from a national pool of REU Site participants. The program involves two main phases: 1) on-site mentored professional development in conjunction with the annual Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union; and 2) virtual and face-to-face mentoring and networking at discipline-specific conferences, supported by on-going virtual professional development webinars. Formative and summative evaluation components are included in the project design. Impact evaluation studies will investigate whether students participating in the MS PHD'S-GEO REU program show greater persistence in STEM and the geosciences, as well as more informed career decision-making, compared with other REU students who are not selected for the program.

总统科学与技术顾问委员会（PCAST​​）和国家研究委员会（NRC）的大量报告已经证明，有必要增加STEM学科中的多样性，这对我们国家的创新议程，经济繁荣和全球竞争力至关重要。 尽管正在发展一些STEM学科方面的进展缓慢，但地球科学社区在非裔美国人，西班牙裔，西班牙裔，美洲原住民和残疾人的数量上还有很长的路要走，在地球科学的地球科学领域赢得了学位，在一个水平上追求与他们的人际代表一致的水平。 还需要招募新代表性不足的少数族裔（URM）学生进入STEM专业的学生，​​并保留已经进入教育和职业课程的学生，需要取得这一目标的进展。与地球科学相关的本科生（REU）网站计划的研究经验。该计划的目标集中在保留已经对地球科学表现出兴趣的学生的保留，但由于孤立，缺乏榜样以及缺乏可以帮助他们指导他们进入职业成功的下一个阶段的导师，他们有离开该领域的风险。 “在Geo Reu中努力并追求更高的成功程度的少数民族”（PHD'S-GEO REU）计划以成功的飞行员为基础，利用了先前的NSF投资来构建用于招聘，保留和领导力的模型计划，以开发传统的STEM学生中人为不足的学生。 该计划使用基于证据的指导概念，这些概念植根于位置学习和真实学习的理论。 职业曝光和专业社交活动被嵌入。 正在使用严格的招聘，应用和选择过程来识别来自REU网站参与者的国家库中的三个队列（15个）学生。 该计划涉及两个主要阶段：1）与美国地球物理联盟的年度秋季会议结合的现场指导的专业发展； 2）在持续的虚拟专业发展网络研讨会支持下，在特定于学科的会议上进行虚拟和面对面的指导和网络。项目设计中包括形成性和总结性评估组件。 影响评估研究将调查参与PHD的GEO REU计划的学生是否在STEM和Geosciences中表现出更大的持久性，以及与未选择该计划的其他REU学生相比，更明智的职业决策。