GP-UP: Strengthening Pathways to Geoscience Degrees for Underrepresented Pre-College and Introductory Students Through Experiential Learning and Career-informed Research

GP-UP：通过体验式学习和职业信息研究，为代表性不足的大学预科生和入门学生加强通往地球科学学位的途径

• 批准号: 2120047
• 负责人: Ellen Metzger
• 金额: $ 20.4万
• 依托单位: San Jose State University Foundation
• 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: 2021-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2120047&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; UP; Strengthening; Pathways; Geoscience

The geosciences remain the least racially diverse of all the sciences with only a fraction of PhDs awarded to individuals from historically excluded racial and ethnic groups compared to their representation in the United States population. This project will recruit and support racially diverse student cohorts entering undergraduate geoscience degree programs through peer and faculty mentoring, career education, and impactful research and outreach opportunities structured to prepare students for successful application to advanced degree programs (MS, PhD) and geoscience careers. Student research topics will contribute to improving understanding of our dynamic and ever-changing Earth. Faculty serving as mentors to the diverse student cohorts will be trained in best practices to create environments of inclusivity in the geosciences. Additionally, student participants will work with local high school teachers to develop geoscience lesson plans that feature local geology and climate to continue to inspire and recruit the next generation of geoscience professionals.The Experiential Pathways to SJSU Geosciences Program will focus on recruiting diverse student groups from two 2-year colleges in the Bay Area (San Jose City College, De Anza College) to enter geoscience programs at SJSU (Geology, Earth Systems Science, Meteorology and Climate Science) with the following goals in mind:1. increase high school, college, and university students' knowledge and personal/cultural connections to geoscience and meteorology/climate science;2. recruit diverse students, particularly those from historically excluded groups, to participate in geosciences through “place- and problem-based” in-class assignments, personal reflections, peer mentoring, and off-campus geoscience experiences that focus on solving problems in geosciences and are focused on Bay Area regional geology and climate issues;3. support students as they enroll in or transfer to geology or meteorology and climate science degree programs at SJSU and prepare them for geoscience careers through authentic research and outreach opportunities;4. strategically expand and develop low-cost strategies to sustain ongoing communication and collaboration among high school teachers, community college faculty, geoscience faculty at SJSU, geoscience alumni, Bay Area geoscience government and industry partners and other community stakeholders.Overall, the program will strengthen the science identities of student participants and emphasize the importance of applying scientific concepts for societal benefit - especially in their own communities.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.

地球科学仍然是所有科学中种族多样性最差的学科，与历史上被排除的种族和族裔群体在美国人口中的代表性相比，只有一小部分博士学位被授予。该项目将招募和支持进入本科地球科学的种族多样化学生群体。通过同行和教师指导、职业教育以及有影响力的研究和外展机会，为学生成功申请高级学位课程（硕士、博士）和地球科学职业做好准备，学生研究主题将有助于提高对我们动态和不断发展的理解。 - 改变地球的教师。此外，学生导师将与当地高中教师合作，制定以当地地质和气候为特色的地球科学课程计划，以继续激励和招募下一代。 SJSU 地球科学体验式课程计划将重点从湾区两所两年制学院（圣何塞城市学院、德安扎学院）招募不同的学生群体，进入以下学校的地球科学课程： SJSU（地质学、地球系统科学、气象学和气候科学）的目标如下：1. 增加高中生、学院和大学生对地球科学和气象学/气候科学的知识和个人/文化联系；2. 招募多元化的学生。学生，特别是那些来自历史上被排除在外的群体的学生，通过“基于地点和问题”的课堂作业、个人反思、同伴指导和校外地球科学经验参与地球科学，这些经验的重点是解决地球科学中的问题，并且专注于湾区区域地质和气候问题；3. 支持学生注册或转学到 SJSU 的地质学或气象学和气候科学学位课程，并通过真实的研究和推广机会为他们的地球科学职业做好准备；4.低成本策略，以维持高中教师、社区学院教师、SJSU 地球科学教师、地球科学校友、湾区地球科学政府和行业合作伙伴以及其他社区利益相关者之间持续的沟通和合作。总体而言，该计划将加强学生的科学身份参与者并强调重要性该奖项反映了 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进行评估，被认为值得支持。