Collaborative Research: EAGER: A cross-institution Veterans in Green STEM program

合作研究：EAGER：绿色 STEM 计划中的跨机构退伍军人

• 批准号: 2039086
• 负责人: Djuradj Babic
• 金额: $ 14.38万
• 依托单位: East Los Angeles College
• 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 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2039086&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; EAGER; cross; institution

This project aims to develop a cross-institutional geo/environmental science diversity leadership program, between East Los Angeles College (ELAC) and The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), to recruits from the veteran community. The veteran community is comprised of men and women who, through their service, have been exposed to a leadership-driven background which often develops unique skills, experiences, and mindsets. This makes them prime candidates to create diversity champions in the geo/environmental science communities. But as with many underrepresented communities in the geoscience, environmental science, and the STEM community overall, veterans have unique barriers which must be addressed to facilitate their development as diversity leaders. In many instances, these individuals are older, have been displaced from the academic environment for multiple years, have additional life responsibilities, and in some cases have unique circumstances which add additional barriers to success in the university environment. These additional barriers coupled with the rigorous academic curriculum associated with geo/environmental science fields, and STEM fields in general, have led to veterans being underrepresented in said disciplines. There has even been a Federal response, namely the passing of the “Supporting Veterans in STEM Careers Act – H.R. 425/S153” [1], on Feb 11, 2020, which has directed the NSF to expand its efforts in increasing veteran inclusion in STEM. By developing a plan to recruit from and simultaneously address these additional barriers while developing leaders from a pool of veterans interested in the geo/environmental science fields, the PIs will support unique champions of diversity; develop current faculty leadership empathy towards the veteran community to better inform them how to create expansion efforts to enhance inclusion; and, more broadly, develop much needed insight into how the principles of the “Supporting Veterans in STEM Careers Act” can be applied.This exploratory research effort will contribute to the development and application of new methods that should effectively create diversity champions amongst the geo/environmental science fields that recruit from the veteran community. The approach will be cross-institutional, and involve the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Eastern Los Angeles College (ELAC). By examining these two vastly different academic environments, the PIs will receive feedback and data that is much broader and can aid in the development of a refined approach that can be scaled. The project will be implemented withy 6 specific goals: 1) Recruit veterans with an interest in geo/environmental science STEM fields, and establish a cross-institutional community to facilitate said interest among similar peers, 2) Establish a support system, 3) Establish cross-institutional placement of veterans into geoscience and environmental labs for research opportunities, 4) Develop diverse leadership through the participation of members in various leadership engagements and roles, 5) Develop empathy and understanding of veteran related circumstances to the current geo/environmental science community, and 6) Record and analyze metrics on retention, performance, engagement, and development of veterans through the duration of their academic careers.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.

该项目旨在在东洛杉矶学院（ELAC）和加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）之间开发跨机构的地理/环境科学多样性领导力计划，以从资深社区招募。资深社区由男人和女人组成，他们通过服务，以领导力驱动的背景，经常发展出独特的技能，经验和思维方式。这使他们成为在地理/环境科学社区中创建多样性冠军的主要候选人。但是，与地球科学，环境科学和STEM社区中许多人为人数不足的社区一样，退伍军人也具有独特的障碍，以支持他们作为多元化领导者的发展。在许多情况下，这些人年龄较大，已经从学术环境中流离失所了多年，承担了额外的生活责任，在某些情况下，有独特的情况，在大学环境中增加了额外的障碍。这些额外的障碍以及与地理/环境科学领域相关的严格学术课程以及STEM领域的一般障碍，导致退伍军人在所述学科中的人数不足。甚至在2020年2月11日，“支持退伍军人在STEM职业生涯中支持退伍军人” [1] [1]，它甚至是联邦回应，即H.R. 425/S153” [1]。通过制定一项计划，从对地理/环境科学领域感兴趣的退伍军人群中培养领导者的同时，将其招募并简单地解决这些额外的障碍，PIS将支持独特的多样性拥护者；向老兵社区建立当前的教师领导力同理心，以更好地告知他们如何创造扩展努力以增强包容性；而且，更广泛地发展了急需的洞察力，即如何应用“支持STEM职业法案中的支持退伍军人”的原则。这项探索性研究工作将有助于开发和应用新方法，这些新方法应有效地在招募资深社区的地理/环境科学领域中创造多样性拥护者。该方法将是跨机构的，涉及加利福尼亚大学，洛杉矶分校（UCLA）和东洛杉矶学院（ELAC）。通过检查这两个截然不同的学术环境，PI将获得更广泛的反馈和数据，并可以帮助开发可以扩展的精制方法。该项目将具有6个具体目标：1）招募对地理/环境科学茎领域感兴趣的退伍军人，并建立一个跨机构的社区，以支持类似的同龄人，2）建立一个支持系统，3）建立退伍军人在地球科学和环境实验室中的跨机构置于研究机会中，通过研究机会发展各种领导力，4）对于当前的地理/环境科学界，以及6）记录和分析在其学术职业期间的保留，绩效，参与和发展退伍军人的指标。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估而被认为是珍贵的支持。