Implementation Grant: Implementing Novel Solutions for Promoting cultural change In geoscience Research and Education (INSPIRE)

实施补助金：实施促进地球科学研究和教育文化变革的新颖解决方案（INSPIRE）

• 批准号: 2228173
• 负责人: Vicki Ferrini
• 金额: $ 733.92万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-11-01 至 2027-10-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228173&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementation; Grant; Implementing; Novel; Solutions

Implementing Novel Solutions for Promoting Cultural Change In Geoscience Research & Education (INSPIRE) program delivers a multi-faceted solution for transforming culture, shifting power, and authentically engaging underserved communities within the transdisciplinary earth and environmental sciences. INSPIRE will mentor, train, and develop early-career researchers and professionals historically underrepresented in the geosciences. By strengthening relationships between research institutions and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), INSPIRE will decolonize geoscience, prioritize engagement of communities through co-design of research programs, and promote the equitable sharing of geoscientific knowledge broadly across our nation. INSPIRE will foster a just, equitable, and inclusive geoscience research community that reflects the diversity of the nation and is rooted in multi-directional listening and knowledge transfer.INSPIRE will focus on two cohort populations of future geoscience leaders at the transition points where they are often lost: 1) prior to graduate school; and, 2) prior to tenure. Bridge Scholars (post-baccalaureates) will be supported and trained through a climate-focused Bridge-to-PhD program that will include enrolling in graduate-level classes, participating in research, and launching an evidence-based self-affirmation component, the Armor Project. Visiting Fellows (early career faculty/researchers at MSIs) will gain skills and experience for developing community-focused geoscience research through their home institutions with collaborative support from - and partnerships with - Columbia University scientists. Reciprocal visits from Columbia hosts/mentors to the Visiting Fellow home institutions will be an integral part of their collaboration and will strengthen institutional partnerships. Participants from both cohorts will engage with communities in New York City to gain experience with community-focused co-design of geoscience research. The Columbia geoscience community, including its alumni, will participate in coordinated action of mentoring and support, and will offer networking opportunities to members of both cohorts. A Council of Cultural Advisors of scientists and scholars from MSIs and BIPOC leaders in STEM will provide guidance and feedback on program directions through communications and biannual meetings. Together with their mentors, host and collaborators, INSPIRE’s 14 Visiting Fellows and 16 Bridge Scholars will become agents of change who will propagate aspects of this novel research and education ecosystem into multiple institutions. INSPIRE will deliver novel solutions for systemic change and cultural transformation long overdue in the geosciences. It will support and sustain Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA)-centered programs, and will create resources and opportunities for new programs to flourish. The envisioned cultural transformation will increase the creativity, equity, relevance, and impact of geoscience.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.

在地球科学研究和教育中实施促进文化变革的新颖解决方案 (INSPIRE) 计划提供了一个多方面的解决方案，用于在跨学科地球和环境科学领域内转变文化、转移权力并真正吸引服务不足的社区。通过加强研究机构和少数族裔服务机构 (MSI) 之间的关系，INSPIRE 将实现地球科学的非殖民化，并通过以下方式优先考虑社区的参与。 INSPIRE 将共同设计研究计划，并促进在全国范围内广泛公平地分享地球科学知识，从而建立一个公正、公平和包容的地球科学研究社区，反映国家的多样性，并植根于多方位的倾听和知识。转学。INSPIRE 将重点关注未来地球科学领导者的两个群体，他们经常在这些过渡点上流失：1）在研究生院之前；2）在获得终身教职之前，桥梁学者（学士学位后）将得到支持和培训。通过一个以气候为重点的博士过渡计划，包括注册研究生课程、参与研究以及启动基于证据的自我肯定部分，即 Armor 项目（MSI 的早期职业教师/研究人员）。在哥伦比亚大学科学家的合作支持和合作下，通过其所在机构获得以社区为中心的地球科学研究的技能和经验。哥伦比亚大学东道主/导师对访问学者所在机构的互访将是他们发展合作和发展的一个组成部分。将要加强机构伙伴关系。两个群体的参与者将与纽约市的社区合作，以获得以社区为中心的地球科学研究共同设计的经验，哥伦比亚地球科学界（包括其校友）将参与指导和支持的协调行动。将为这两个群体的成员提供交流机会。由 MSI 的科学家和学者组成的文化顾问委员会和 STEM 领域的 BIPOC 领导人将与他们的导师、主持人和合作者一起，通过沟通和一年两次的会议提供有关项目方向的指导和反馈。 INSPIRE 的 14 名访问学者和 16 名桥梁学者将成为变革的推动者，他们将把这一新颖的研究和教育生态系统的各个方面传播到多个机构，INSPIRE 将为地球科学领域早就应该提供的系统变革和文化转型提供新颖的解决方案。以多样性、公平性、包容性和可及性（DEIA）为中心的项目，将为新项目的蓬勃发展创造资源和机会。预期的文化转型将提高项目的创造力、公平性、相关性和影响力。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。