Implementation grant: NewGeo: A Newark Geo-ecosystem for cultural transformation and systemic change in the geosciences

实施补助金：NewGeo：促进地球科学文化转型和系统变革的纽瓦克地理生态系统

• 批准号: 2228124
• 负责人: Ashaki Rouff
• 金额: $ 432.68万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University Newark
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228124&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementation; grant; NewGeo; Newark; Geo

The Newark Geoscience Ecosystem (NewGeo) is a transformative learning geo-ecosystem model uniting Newark-based institutions and organizations in the growth of a geoscience workforce prepared to solve urban environmental challenges through cross-sectoral collaboration. Rutgers University Newark leads NewGeo, a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) with an anchor institution mission centered on community engagement, science in the urban environment, and inclusive excellence through integration of diversity and inclusion in all pursuits. Through experiential learning opportunities, NewGeo graduate students build partnerships with Newark’s government, industry and education sectors, teach and mentor K-16 students, and collaborate with non-profits and community-based organizations. This instills a sense of civic responsibility in graduate students and the aspiring geoscientists they mentor. This project cultivates a geoscience workforce that is representative of and prepared to engage with the local citizenry to tackle environmental and climate stresses and injustices. The NewGeo faculty and administrators promote inclusive, collaborative, and positive environments in the geo-ecosystem; implement and become practitioners of strategies to encourage and support students, individuals, and communities from marginalized and minoritized groups; and formalize relationships and institutionalize best practices for effective partnerships and whole system change. All NewGeo participants influence and inspire their professional and social networks, share within their communities of practice, and disseminate outcomes to the broader geoscience community for adaptation and adoption of the NewGeo model for cultural transformation at multiple levels.NewGeo creates community-centered career pathways for participants from minoritized and marginalized groups and engages a traditionally excluded non-academic community in the scientific discourse. NewGeo is spearheaded by a graduate student cohort that transforms their education and challenges geoscience culture through collaborative, self-directed engagement with non-academic partners. Graduate student environment community-outreach graduate assistants (ECO GAs) leverage their academic preparation and build career skills through place-based experiential learning experiences in collaboration with NewGeo partners. Activities include embedded community-based internships, K-12 outreach, volunteerism, mentoring of undergraduates, and professional and leadership development. Faculty and administrators activate their capital as change agents for revolutionizing the geosciences (CHARGE) to induce cultural transformation. The cohort is CHARGEd to research, create, institutionalize and disseminate NewGeo best practices, policies and procedures, while engaging in self-guided and reflective professional development.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.

纽瓦克地球科学生态系统 (NewGeo) 是一个变革性的学习地理生态系统模型，它将纽瓦克的机构和组织联合起来，培养地球科学劳动力，准备通过跨部门合作解决城市环境挑战。NewGeo 是一个西班牙裔服务机构。机构 (HSI) 的主要机构使命是社区参与、城市环境中的科学以及通过将多样性和包容性融入所有追求中实现包容性卓越。与纽瓦克政府、工业和教育部门合作，教授和指导 K-16 学生，并与非营利组织和社区组织合作，这向研究生和他们指导的有抱负的地球科学家灌输了公民责任感。一支代表当地公民并准备好与当地公民合作解决环境和气候压力和不公正问题的地球科学队伍，促进地理生态系统中包容、协作和积极的环境，并成为战略的实践者；鼓励和支持来自离开群体和少数群体的学生、个人和社区；并将有效合作关系和整个系统变革的最佳实践制度化；影响和激励他们的专业和社交网络，在他们的实践社区中分享，并向更广泛的地球科学界传播成果，以便在多个层面上适应和采用 NewGeo 模型进行文化转型。NewGeo 为少数群体和边缘化群体的参与者创造以社区为中心的职业道路，并让传统上被排除在外的非学术社区参与进来NewGeo 由研究生群体带头，通过与非学术合作伙伴的协作、自主参与，改变他们的教育并挑战地球科学文化。 研究生环境社区外展研究生助理 (ECO GA) 利用他们的学术准备和建设。通过与 NewGeo 合作伙伴合作的基于地点的体验式学习体验来培养职业技能。活动包括基于社区的实习、K-12 外展、志愿服务、本科生指导以及教师和管理人员的专业和领导力发展。激活他们的资本，作为地球科学革命的变革推动者（CHARGE），以引发文化转型。 该团队负责研究、创造、制度化和传播 NewGeo 最佳实践、政策和程序，同时从事自我引导和反思性的专业发展。授予 NSF 的法定使命，并通过评估反映使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得支持。