When do Native students discover ecology and what factors contribute to the low enrollment of diverse students? Addressing such questions is crucial for diversifying science disciplines and the workforce of ecology and geoscience disciplines. Field sciences such as ecology have notably low enrollment of students from underrepresented groups, such as Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, and Native American or Alaska Natives. Here we discuss the factors that affect Native students and provide strategies to improve recruitment and retention of Native students in the sciences.

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阿拉斯加原住民生态学家对生态的（未）发现


本土学生何时发现生态学？哪些因素导致多元化学生入学率低？解决这些问题对于科学学科以及生态学和地球科学学科劳动力的多样化至关重要。生态学等领域科学领域来自代表性不足群体的学生入学率明显较低，例如黑人/非裔美国人、西班牙裔/拉丁裔以及美洲原住民或阿拉斯加原住民。在这里，我们讨论影响本土学生的因素，并提供改善科学领域本土学生的招收和保留的策略。