Conference: Cultivating Geoscience Careers Pathways at HBCUs and Women-Only Colleges in South Carolina and Georgia

会议：在南卡罗来纳州和佐治亚州的 HBCU 和女子学院培养地球科学职业道路

• 批准号: 2324444
• 负责人: Venetia Lyles
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: South Carolina State University
• 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: 2024-04-15 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2324444&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Cultivating; Geoscience; Careers; Pathways

South Carolina State University (SCSU), in collaboration with over seventeen other academic institutions in South Carolina and Geogia, will organize a 1.5 days-long conference in Savannah, GA that will bring together a diverse constellation of academic, public, and private sector representatives to build leadership, enhance partnerships, and improve the capacity of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and women-only colleges in South Carolina and Georgia to diversify, strengthen, and expand a rapidly evolving geoscience workforce. Outcomes of the conference will include a report outlining gaps, challenges, and opportunities linked to preparing students at participating institutions for diverse geoscience career pathways. The report will include recommendations for academia, public, and private sectors to address those gaps, challenges, and opportunities. This project will launch the foundation for a community of practice that continues to learn and share good practices and ideas, beyond the award period.The conference organizers will bring together faculty and administrators from HBCUs and women-only institutions in SC and GA, funding-agency representatives, and employers in private and public sectors. The goal of the conference is to 1) identify curriculum gaps and challenges linked to lack of preparation for students for geoscience jobs, 2) develop recommendations for participating institutions, employers and funding agencies to address the gaps and challenges, and 3) lay the groundwork for future collaborations. This project is jointly funded by Directorate of Geosciences' Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE) and the Division of Research, Innovations, Synergies and Education (RISE), and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.

南卡罗来纳州立大学 (SCSU) 与南卡罗来纳州和佐治亚州的其他 17 多个学术机构合作，将在佐治亚州萨凡纳举办为期 1.5 天的会议，届时学术界、公共部门和私营部门的代表将齐聚一堂建立领导力，加强伙伴关系，提高南卡罗来纳州和佐治亚州传统黑人学院和大学 (HBCU) 以及女子学院的能力，以实现快速发展的地球科学劳动力多元化、加强和扩大。会议成果将包括一份报告，概述与参与机构的学生为多样化的地球科学职业道路做好准备相关的差距、挑战和机遇。该报告将包括向学术界、公共和私营部门提出的建议，以解决这些差距、挑战和机遇。该项目将为实践社区奠定基础，在颁奖期结束后继续学习和分享良好的实践和想法。会议组织者将汇集来自 HBCU 以及南卡罗来纳州和乔治亚州的女性机构的教职人员和管理人员，资助 -机构代表以及私营和公共部门的雇主。会议的目标是 1) 确定与学生缺乏地球科学工作准备相关的课程差距和挑战，2) 为参与机构、雇主和资助机构提出建议，以解决差距和挑战，以及 3) 奠定基础以便将来的合作。该项目由地球科学局海洋科学部 (OCE) 和研究、创新、协同和教育部 (RISE) 以及刺激竞争性研究既定计划 (EPSCoR) 联合资助。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，并被认为值得支持。