Sustaining URGE (Unlearning Racism in Geosciences)

维持 URGE（忘却地球科学中的种族主义）

• 批准号: 2126109
• 负责人: Vanshan Wright
• 金额: $ 9.93万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography
• 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: 2021-06-01 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2126109&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sustaining; URGE; Unlearning; Racism; Geosciences

Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (URGE) is a community-wide journal-reading and policy-design curriculum to help geoscientists unlearn racism and improve belonging, accessibility, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (Be A JEDI) in Geoscience. The geosciences remain one of the least diverse of the science fields with little change in the demographics of the discipline despite decades of effort. URGE’s primary objectives are to (1) deepen the community’s knowledge of the effects of racism on the participation and retention of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and People of Color in Geoscience, (2) draw on existing literature, expert opinions, and personal experiences to develop anti-racist policies and strategies, and (3) share, discuss and modify anti-racist policies and strategies within a dynamic community network and on a national stage. This proposal supports the community facilitation activities of URGE (e.g., virtual meetings and events), documentation of the development and operations of the program, and summarization of the response of the Geoscience community to URGE. These data are important for later studies focused on identifying what makes Be A JEDI initiatives successful. The data will also allow us to assess whether the structure and curriculum of URGE lead to effective anti-racist policies and strategies and significant short and long-term changes at the institutions and organizations that participated in the program.Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (URGE) is a community-wide journal-reading and policy-design curriculum to help geoscientists unlearn racism and improve the discipline for all communities. URGE’s main structure brings together the geoscience community to participate in a curriculum designed to educate, provide expert opinions, and draft anti-racist policies and strategies in the geosciences. Throughout eight two-week sessions, geoscientists cover different topics on racism, including identity, history, justice, accessibility, inclusivity, and accountability. Each session includes deliverables specific to the session’s topic and developed by each group through the use of knowledge from provided literature, interviews from experts in the field, group discussions, and broader community-wide discourse. URGE will follow this sixteen-week curriculum by reviewing and distilling the policies developed by the community, facilitating policy meetings at institutions, and disseminating the findings at national conferences. Project personnel will analyze data collected at the end of the sixteen-week URGE session using modified versions of validated survey tools that focus on assessing behavior change and attitudes towards improving belonging, accessibility, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (Be A JEDI). This will be followed by longitudinal surveys to evaluate the long-term impacts of the URGE program. Project personnel will also analyze data on URGE participants to better understand who took part in the program and what work may need to be done in the future to bring in more majority identities into programs like URGE.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.

消除地球科学中的种族主义 (URGE) 是一门社区范围的期刊阅读和政策设计课程，旨在帮助地球科学家消除地球科学中的种族主义并提高归属感、可及性、正义、公平、多样性和包容性 (Be A JEDI)。尽管 URGE 是最不多样化的科学领域之一，但该学科的人口统计数据几乎没有变化，其主要目标是 (1) 加深社区对种族主义对参与和保留的影响的了解。地球科学领域的黑人、棕色人种、土著和有色人种的研究，(2) 利用现有文献、专家意见和个人经验来制定反种族主义政策和战略，以及 (3) 分享、讨论和修改反种族主义政策该提案支持 URGE 的社区促进活动（例如虚拟会议和活动）、计划的开发和运营记录以及地球科学界的响应总结。敦促。这些数据对于后续研究非常重要，这些研究旨在确定 Be A JEDI 计划的成功因素。这些数据还将使我们能够评估 URGE 的结构和课程是否会带来有效的反种族主义政策和战略以及重大的短期和长期变化。消除地球科学中的种族主义 (URGE) 是一个社区范围的期刊阅读和政策设计课程，旨在帮助地球科学家消除种族主义并改善所有社区的纪律。地球科学界参与旨在教育、提供专家意见并起草地球科学反种族主义政策和战略的课程。在八次为期两周的会议中，地球科学家讨论了有关种族主义的不同主题，包括身份、历史、正义、可及性。每场会议都包含特定于会议主题的交付成果，并由每个小组通过使用所提供的文献中的知识、该领域的专家访谈、小组讨论以及更广泛的社区范围的讨论来开发。为期十六周的课程，审查和提炼社区制定的政策，促进机构的政策会议，并在全国会议上传播研究结果，项目人员将使用经过验证的修改版本来分析在十六周的 URGE 会议结束时收集的数据。重点评估行为变化和改善归属感、可及性、正义、公平、多样性和包容性的调查工具（Be A JEDI），随后将进行纵向调查，以评估 URGE 项目的长期影响。工作人员还将分析数据URGE 参与者更好地了解谁参与了该计划以及未来可能需要做哪些工作才能将更多的多数身份带入 URGE 等计划中。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。