NSF INCLUDES Alliance: Broadening Career Pathways in Food, Energy, and Water Systems with and within Native American Communities (Native FEWS Alliance)

NSF 包括联盟：与美洲原住民社区一起拓宽食品、能源和水系统的职业道路（原住民 FEWS 联盟）

• 批准号: 2120001
• 负责人: Alice Agogino
• 金额: $ 707.17万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2120001&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; Alliance; Broadening; Career

The Native FEWS (Food, Energy, Water Systems) Alliance is focused on innovative research and community partnerships linking two interconnected challenges: a crisis in access to food, energy, and water in Indigenous communities; and limited educational and career pathways available to Indigenous populations to address these needs. The disproportionate number of Indigenous people who have being negatively impacted by climate change, the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, and pollution on tribal lands demonstrate the urgent need for effective solutions. Currently, there are limited institutional pathways for Native Americans and other underrepresented students to pursue environmental careers. The University of California at Berkeley, University of Arizona and American Indian Higher Education Consortium will work with over 20 partners to significantly broaden the opportunities for participation and the ecosystem of research and practice training by and for Native Americans and other underrepresented student groups. A focus will be on students who possess, and those who seek, the necessary training and preparation to address these critical challenges. Through the application of culturally-relevant approaches (successfully developed and evaluated by partners at all levels of the educational continuum), the Alliance will develop curricula and mentoring guides, offer workshops, adapt and adopt best practices, and share results. These activities will enable institutions across the country to access Native FEWS educational and mentoring materials. Broadening participation will produce greater diversity of thought and generate culturally relevant sustainable solutions that are applicable to local communities yet can be used as a basis for applications more broadly.Mainstream science and technology programs have to date been ineffective in responding to Indigenous challenges at the nexus of food, energy, water systems (FEWS), and do not adequately serve or engage Indigenous communities. The result is a deepening of social alienation and professional marginalization of Indigenous youth. The Native FEWS Alliance will integrate place-based approaches to teaching and diversity with applied research and Indigenous knowledges to transform FEWS education to be more relevant to Indigenous communities. The implementation plan is designed to produce more successful recruitment, matriculation, retention, and degree attainment outcomes. By bringing together the resources, expertise and experiences of multiple educational institutions and stakeholders who all share a proven track record in widening pathways for Indigenous students, the Alliance will develop a Networked Improvement Community to achieve the following interrelated goals: Address urgent FEWS challenges in Indigenous communities; Co-develop integrated, Indigenous, place-based FEWS curricula, mentoring, and practice experiences; Transform institutional science and technology fields to be relevant and accessible to Indigenous communities; and Recruit, retain and graduate Indigenous students to pursue higher education and careers in FEWS and bring their knowledge back to their communities. Alliance initiatives will be rigorously evaluated and disseminated, contributing new knowledge to the research base of effective practices in recruiting, teaching, and mentoring Native American students and professionals, and in building ethical, effective co-designed partnerships. The forms of dissemination will include publications, case studies, curricula, guidebooks, webinars, podcasts and multimedia resources for Indigenous stakeholders and to educate the wider sustainability science communities.This NSF INCLUDES Alliance 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 and co-funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure, and the Division of Environmental Biology.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.

当地人（食品，能源，水系统）联盟的重点是创新研究和社区伙伴关系，将两个相互联系的挑战联系起来：在土著社区获得食品，能源和水的危机；土著人口可用于满足这些需求的有限教育和职业途径。受到气候变化，持续的共同19日大流行和部落土地污染对受到负面影响的土著人数不成比例，这表明迫切需要有效解决方案。目前，美洲原住民和其他代表性不足的学生从事环境职业的机构途径有限。加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校，亚利桑那大学和美洲印第安高等教育财团将与20多个合作伙伴合作，以大大扩大参与的机会以及对美洲原住民和其他代表性不足的学生群体进行研究和实践培训的生态系统。将重点放在拥有和寻求的学生的学生，以应对这些关键挑战的必要培训和准备。通过采用与文化相关的方法（由教育连续性各个层面的合作伙伴成功地开发和评估），联盟将开发课程和指导指南，提供讲习班，适应和采用最佳实践，并分享结果。这些活动将使全国各地的机构能够获得当地人的教育和指导材料。扩大参与将产生更大的思想多样性，并产生适用于当地社区的文化相关的可持续解决方案，但可以用作更广泛的应用程序的基础。迄今为止，主流的科学和技术计划在应对食品，能源，能源系统（少数水系统）和不充分的社区中的土著挑战方面的反应无效。结果是对土著青年的社会疏远和专业边缘化的加深。当地的几个联盟将将基于位置的教学和多样性方法与应用研究和土著知识整合在一起，以改变几个教育，以使其与土著社区更加相关。该实施计划旨在产生更成功的招聘，入学，保留和学位成果。通过将多个教育机构和利益相关者的资源，专业知识和经验汇总在一起，他们在扩大土著学生的途径方面都有良好的往绩，该联盟将开发一个网络改善社区，以实现以下相互关联的目标：解决土著社区中紧急的少数挑战；共同开发的综合，土著，基于地点的少数课程，指导和实践经验；将机构科学技术领域转变为与土著社区相关并可以使用；并招募，保留和毕业的土著学生几乎从事高等教育和职业，并将知识带回社区。联盟倡议将进行严格评估和传播，为有效实践的研究基础提供新知识，以招募，教学和指导美国原住民学生和专业人士，以及建立道德，有效的共同设计的合作伙伴关系。 The forms of dissemination will include publications, case studies, curricula, guidebooks, webinars, podcasts and multimedia resources for Indigenous stakeholders and to educate the wider sustainability science communities.This NSF INCLUDES Alliance 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通过专注于多样性，包容和扩大参与STEM的大规模参与，并由生物科学局，生物基础设施部和环境生物学司共同资助来发现和创新。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为通过基金会的知识优点和广泛的crietia crietia crietia criperia criperia criperia criperia criperia criperia criperia criperia cripitia cripitia cripitia recectia rection this奖项。

项目成果

Application of the Indigenous evaluation framework to a university certificate program for building cultural awareness in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

将本土评估框架应用于大学证书课程，以培养科学、技术、工程和数学方面的文化意识

• DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2022.102066
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Evaluation and Program Planning
• 影响因子: 1.6
• 作者: Velez, Christine;Nuechterlein, Bridget;Connors, Susan;RedShirt Tyon, Grace;Roane, Timberley M.;Mays, David C.
• 通讯作者: Mays, David C.

Opinion: Building Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into an Engineering Course

意见：将多样性、公平性和包容性融入工程课程

• DOI: 10.18260/3-1-1153-36034
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Advances in Enginering Education
• 作者: Rice, Cynthia;Mays, David
• 通讯作者: Mays, David

How Diversity Makes Better Engineering Teams

多元化如何打造更好的工程团队

• DOI: 10.1002/awwa.1962
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal AWWA
• 影响因子: 0.7
• 作者: Mays, David C.