Building Equitable University-Community Geoscience Research Collaborations on Chicago’s South Side

在芝加哥南区建立公平的大学与社区地球科学研究合作

• 批准号: 2326749
• 负责人: Max Berkelhammer
• 金额: $ 29.9万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2326749&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Equitable; University; Community; Geoscience

The geosciences have long struggled to recruit and retain students and professionals that reflect the diverse population its research serves. While traditional approaches to recruitment and retention have made important progress in recent years, this project seeks to build on new frameworks for equitable-reciprocal partnerships between geoscience departments and community-based organization applied within the city of Chicago through open sharing of assets and knowledge spanning both research and teaching practices. These transparent sharing practices open pathways for place-based learning and research, actively engage individuals outside the mainstream geosciences, invest in regenerative community enterprise and train students for inspiring career pathways in sustainable geoscience fields. This planning grant will specifically formalize and accelerate a partnership between the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) with the Urban Growers Collective (UGC), a Black and Women-led 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The goal is to develop a scalable roadmap to address structural and cultural barriers that hinder partnership growth. The initial phase of the project will utilize approaches developed by Partnerships for Antiracist Campus Transformation (PACT) at University of Illinois Chicago to establish how best to develop equitable budgets, redress structural barriers, align strategic plans between institutions, co-create teaching and research plans and identify new workforce pathways. The project will then pilot both teaching and research projects that empower students to solve problems on urban land stewardship, food production and waste upcycling in Chicago. For the teaching case, the department’s core soil class will work with stewards across the network of urban agriculture sites in the city to develop actionable ideas for soil renewal in disinvested and industrially zoned areas of Chicago’s southside. For the research case, the community researchers and university investigators will quantify carbon, nutrient, and greenhouse gas benefits associated with upcycling of urban food waste using composting and UGC’s new anaerobic digester facility. This aspect of the project will shed light on workforce development avenues based on upcycling and regenerative practices. A formal project assessment will be undertaken by consultants of the Urban Growers Collective during each phase of the project with the goal of developing an implementation project that incorporates a larger cohort of community groups, confronts institutional challenges associated with supporting these partnerships and developing a pathway for sustainable implementation of these approaches with other urban Community Based Organizations and geoscience departments.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.

地球科学长期以来一直在努力招募并留住学生和专业人士，这些学生和专业人士反映了其研究所服务的多样性人群。尽管近年来传统的招募和保留方法取得了重要进展，但该项目旨在以新地球科学部门和基于社区的组织在芝加哥市内应用于芝加哥市在芝加哥市内应用的新框架建立新的框架，通过公开共享资产和知识，涵盖研究和教学实践。这些透明的共享实践开放途径，用于基于地点的学习和研究，积极吸引主流地球科学之外的个人，投资于再生社区企业，并培训学生在可持续地球科学领域中激发职业途径。该计划赠款将专门将伊利诺伊大学芝加哥大学（UIC）的地球与环境科学系之间的合作伙伴关系正式和加速，这是城市种植者集体（UGC），黑人和女性领导的501（c）（3）非营利组织。目的是开发可扩展的路线图，以解决阻碍伙伴关系增长的结构和文化障碍。该项目的初始阶段将利用伊利诺伊州芝加哥的反种族主义校园转型（PACT）开发的方法，以确定如何最好地制定公平预算，纠正结构性障碍，机构之间的战略计划，共同创建教学和研究计划并确定新的劳动力途径。然后，该项目将驾驶教学和研究项目，以使学生能够解决芝加哥城市土地管理，粮食生产和浪费升级的问题。对于教学案例，该部门的核心土壤阶级将与该市城市农业网站网络的管理者合作，以在芝加哥南边的被撤销和工业区域划分的土壤更新中开发可行的想法。对于研究案例，社区研究人员和大学的研究人员将使用作曲和UGC的新厌氧消化酯设施来量化与升级城市食品浪费相关的碳，营养和温室气体益处。该项目的这一方面将阐明基于升级和再生实践的劳动力发展途径。在项目的每个阶段，城市种植者集体的顾问将进行正式的项目评估，其目的是开发一个实施项目，该项目结合了更大的社区群体，面对与这些伙伴关系相关的机构挑战，并与支持这些方法的可持续实施相关的途径与其他城市社区社区的组织和地理位置aptions nsf evallysions nsf eartions nsf eartions nsf evally.使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响评估标准进行评估。