UCAR Community Building Program

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Environmental Justice Seminar featuring Beverly Wright and Robert Bullard.

Seminar by Lisa Lone Fight, Director of the Wind River Native Sciences Field Center. To listen to the audio presentation, along with slides, click here.

UCAR Weather Forecasts Aim to Reduce African Meningitis Epidemics: UCAR's Africa Initiative partners with Google.org and the international atmospheric science community to determine how weather research can help reduce outbreaks of meningitis.

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A collaborative effort by the university community to establish partnerships with minority serving institutions to develop undergraduate programs in the geosciences at MSIs and improve recruitment and retention of diverse students in the geosciences at all institutions.

Purpose

To build and support relationships that will broaden participation in the atmospheric and related sciences. These relationships will

Encourage excellence within UCAR, NCAR, and UOP by nurturing a diverse workforce
Support the UCAR university community’s efforts to broaden participation
Improve UCAR’s ability to serve a diverse and global society

We particularly seek to expand the UCAR community to include more institutions that serve students from groups that are under-represented in the sciences: historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and two-year colleges.

Guiding Principles

Listen
Community building program activities will be defined through conversations with institutions that serve diverse communities, and focus on enabling long-term strategies led by those institutions.

Work Collaboratively
The model isn’t one of competing for relatively few candidates; or even to grow the geosciences at the expense of other fields. Instead, we will increase opportunities to participate in geosciences, so that society benefits from an expanded workforce.

Broaden participation by broadening service
Efforts to encourage the participation in the atmospheric and related sciences will go hand-in-hand with opportunities to serve diverse and currently underserved communities.

Leverage UCAR resources to develop capacity
UCAR’s unique expertise is in supporting the research community; CPB will leverage that expertise to offer more diverse communities the opportunity to execute their own research agenda.

Build on existing efforts
Focus on leveraging existing activities and coordinating pre-existing networks, both within UCAR, NCAR, and UOP and externally.

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