Understanding the Impact Graduate Fellowships on Broadening Participation in GEO

了解研究生奖学金对扩大 GEO 参与的影响

• 批准号: 2028343
• 负责人: Erick Jones
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Arlington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2028343&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Understanding; Impact; Graduate; Fellowships; Broadening

The workshop seeks to develop national strategies and key recommendations to engage groups currently under-served in the geosciences, including students from key geographic areas and at institutions that serve economically and demographically diverse populations. The workshop effort seeks to support students to pursue graduate degrees in the geosciences by learning about methods that could increase the likelihood of successful applications for Federal graduate fellowships. The project aims to create an initial model for the geosciences that can be tested with and applied to other STEM disciplines. The project will also elucidate the data needed to provide evidence-based understanding of the impacts of different funding mechanisms, especially federal graduate fellowships, on graduate student recruitment, retention and workforce outcomes.This workshop will address two overarching goals: To understand the impact of different funding mechanisms, especially federal graduate fellowships, on both graduate student recruitment and workforce outcomes, and to learn how to leverage graduate funding mechanisms and targeted outreach to broaden participation of under-represented people in STEM, particularly in the geosciences. The workshop will bring together thought leaders in graduate education, broadening participation, the geosciences, and relevant federal agencies, with the aim of recommending evidence-based strategies, achieving greater data transparency, and enabling targeted application support for fellowship applicants. The main outcome of this workshop will be to provide professional development level guidance for UR students on how to leverage graduate funding mechanisms for career advancement in STEM disciplines with an emphasis on the geosciences. The proposed workshop has the potential to develop a path forward for filling in a necessary professional development gap for underrepresented students to gain understanding in the value of fellowship support for career mobility and preparation. The workshop should yield an increased understanding of how graduate student support mechanisms can lead to greater diversity in the geosciences and related disciplines.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.

该研讨会旨在制定国家战略和关键建议，以吸引目前服务不足的团体，包括来自关键地理领域的学生以及在经济和人口统计学上多样化的机构中的机构。研讨会的努力旨在通过了解可能增加成功申请联邦研究生奖学金的可能性的方法来支持学生在地球科学中攻读研究生学位。该项目旨在为地球科学创建一个初始模型，该模型可以与其他STEM学科进行测试并应用。该项目还将阐明对不同资金机制的影响，尤其是联邦研究生奖学金，研究生招聘，保留和劳动力成果的影响的基于证据的了解所需的数据。此研讨会将解决两个总体的目标：为了了解不同的资金机制，尤其是对劳动力研究生的劳动劳动和劳动力的影响，以了解劳动力的劳动力和劳动力的影响，以实现研究生的劳动力，以了解如何学习劳动力研究生。并针对宣传以扩大代表性不足的人在STEM中的参与，特别是在地球科学中。该研讨会将汇集研究生教育的思想领袖，扩大参与，地球科学和相关联邦机构，以推荐基于证据的策略，提高数据透明度，并为奖学金申请人提供有针对性的申请支持。该研讨会的主要结果是为我们的学生提供有关如何利用研究生资助机制来实现STEM学科的职业发展的专业发展水平指导，重点是地球科学。拟议的研讨会有潜力为填补代表性不足的学生填补必要的专业发展差距的前进途径，以了解对职业流动性和准备工作的奖学金支持价值的理解。研讨会应该对研究生支持机制如何导致地球科学和相关学科的多样性有更多的了解。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知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估来评估的值得支持的。