NSF INCLUDES Planning Grant:Transcending Barriers for Success

NSF 包括规划拨款：超越成功的障碍

• 批准号: 2040991
• 负责人: Amy Shachter
• 金额: $ 9.98万
• 依托单位: Santa Clara University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2040991&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; Planning; Grant; Transcending

This NSF INCLUDES planning grant is funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale. The goal of this planning grant is to produce a strategic plan for building a collaborative infrastructure to address participation challenges for Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Native Pacific Islander (NAAN-NHPI) students. Recent studies estimate that the percentage of students that complete a degree in a STEM major remains low. For STEM students from minoritized groups, the identification of relationships between STEM curriculum and students’ personal and cultural values, communal benefits, altruistic goals (e.g. social and environmental justice issues), and diverse cultural perspectives, cultivate the motivation and scientific identity linked to STEM persistence. Importantly, connecting Indigenous knowledges with western knowledge systems as the basis for transforming curricular and co-curricular programs and supports can improve STEM success, particularly for NAAN-NHPI students. The project provides the planning groundwork for a nodal network through local/institutional, local/multi-institutional, and regional nodes. This large-scale planning network is needed to ensure systemic, durable engagement of the NAAN-NHPI community and, thereby, develop a more diverse workforce to ensure our competitive and prosperous national future. This planning project focuses primarily on the element of shared vision and includes specific outcomes related to the four other elements of the collaborative infrastructure. The main product of this planning process is a strategic plan for developing the network with a common agenda that articulates a collective understanding of the participation challenge within a place-based framework. The strategic plan includes the identification and listing of primary network partners as well as a description of how SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) and the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement provide the “backbone” or support organization to help coordinate and facilitate the network. The team's strategic planning approach employs four dialogic elements 1) talking circles, 2) listening circles, 3) convenings, and 4) gatherings with “4” (a sacred number of four directions, seasons, daily stages, life stages) as a basis. All planning is virtual with culturally-grounded communication strategies. The project is anchored with four institutions (Humboldt State University, University of Utah, Texas Woman’s University, and University of Arkansas) and experienced guiding communities (University of Hawai‘i, the Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes, and Alaskan Native communities) with contributions from both two- and four-year institutions. Over 50 institutions, including the California State University system, will be engaged in Alaska, Arkansas, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah. INCLUDES Network Alliances and projects representatives will be invited to participate in the convenings and gatherings. This project expands the scope of the current INCLUDES portfolio by focused support for NAAN-NHPI students.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NSF包括计划赠款，由NSF包容性在整个国家的NSF包容性资金中资助，这些社区的工程和科学领域人数不足的发现者（NSF Incluction）是一项全面的国家倡议，旨在通过专注于在STEM上的多样性，包容性和扩大STEM的参与，以提高美国在发现和创新方面的领导能力。该计划赠款的目的是制定战略计划，以建立协作基础设施，以应对美国原住民，阿拉斯加原住民，夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民（NAAN-NHPI）学生的参与挑战。最近的研究估计，在STEM专业的学生中获得学位的比例仍然很低。对于来自少数群体的STEM学生，识别STEM课程与学生的个人和文化价值观，社区利益，无私目标（例如社会和环境正义问题）以及多元化的文化观点之间的关系，培养了与STEM持久性有关的动机和科学认同。重要的是，将土著知识与西方知识系统联系起来，作为改变现代和课外计划和支持的基础，可以改善STEM的成功，尤其是对于Naan-NHPI学生而言。该项目通过本地/机构，本地/多机构和区域节点为节点网络提供了计划基础。需要这个大规模的计划网络，以确保Naan-NHPI社区的系统性，持久的参与，从而发展更多样化的劳动力，以确保我们的竞争和繁荣的国家未来。该计划项目主要关注共享愿景的要素，并包括与协作基础架构的其他四个要素相关的具体结果。该计划过程的主要产品是一项战略计划，用于开发一个通用Agerda的网络，该计划表达了对基于地点框架中参与挑战的集体理解。该战略计划包括对主要网络合作伙伴的识别和列表，以及对Sencer（新的公民参与和责任的科学教育）以及国家科学与公民参与中心的描述提供了“骨干”或支持组织，以帮助协调和促进网络。该团队的战略规划方法员工四个对话要素1）谈话循环，2）聆听电路，3）召集和4）聚会，“ 4”（四个方向，季节，每日，每日阶段，生活阶段）作为基础。所有计划都是通过具有文化的沟通策略虚拟的。该项目扎根于四个机构（洪堡州立大学，犹他大学，得克萨斯州妇女大学和阿肯色大学），并经验丰富的指导社区（夏威夷大学，同盟国的萨利什·库特内奈部落和阿拉斯加的本地社区），并提供了来自两年和四年制机构的贡献。包括加利福尼亚州立大学系统在内的50多个机构将在阿拉斯加，阿肯色州，加利福尼亚，夏威夷，爱达荷州，密西西比州，蒙大拿州，新墨西哥州，俄克拉荷马州，俄克拉荷马州，德克萨斯州和犹他州订婚。包括网络联盟和项目代表，将邀请他们参加召集和聚会。该项目扩大了电流的范围，包括对Naan-NHPI学生的重点支持的投资组合。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为是通过评估而被视为珍贵的支持。