REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Minority Group Demography

REU 网站：少数民族人口学本科生研究

• 批准号: 0552949
• 负责人: Robert Hummer
• 金额: $ 28.05万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-01 至 2009-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0552949&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Undergraduate; Research; Minority

The Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin has hosted a summer REU Site for the past 16 years. The organizing theme of the program is Minority Group Demography. Over the years, the site has introduced REU students to the research process through classroom study of demographic methods and mentored, independent research. A majority of the former REU students have gone on to graduate school. Notably, the program continues to be comprised of roughly 60% under-represented minority group students and about 70% female students. The intellectual merit of the REU Site involves the academic and ethical development of junior social science scholars around a topic of immense importance to the future of the United States. The program provides REU students with (1) exposure, (2) experience, and (3) expertise. Specifically, undergraduates are exposed to both the technical tools and professional culture of social science through social demography. REU students experience the rigorous course of study and intensity of the scientific research process firsthand. Finally, students demonstrate their expertise as junior members of the academy. The REU Site uses, as its organizing principle, the investigation of minority groups inU.S. society. Demography, with its focus on those population processes common to all groups--fertility, mortality, migration--provides powerful tools for investigating group differences in these processes, as well as group differences in such related conditions as wealth, poverty, family composition, education attainment, and labor force experience. In the United States, numerous groups are significantly underrepresented at the highest levels in the sciences. Given the composition of our students in this program, a scholarly concentration on minority group experience is relevant to both the students and the nation. The broader impact of the program is to influence the future of higher education in the social sciences, with special attention to the racial/ethnic and gender diversity of the future academic workforce. The successes of this REU program are already evident, including students who have recently earned their Ph.D.s and have been placed at leading research universities around the country, a host of students who are in leading graduate programs around the country, and others who have recently completed the REU program and will soon be moving on to graduate school.

德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的人口研究中心在过去的16年中一直在夏季REU站点。 该计划的组织主题是少数群体人口统计学。 多年来，该网站通过对人口统计学方法的课堂研究和指导，独立的研究向REU学生介绍了研究过程。 大多数以前的REU学生都去了研究生院。 值得注意的是，该计划继续由大约60％的人数不足的少数群体学生和约70％的女学生组成。 REU网站的智力优点涉及初级社会科学学者的学术和道德发展，围绕着对美国的未来至关重要的话题。该计划为REU学生提供（1）曝光，（2）经验和（3）专业知识。具体而言，本科生通过社会人口统计学既接触了社会科学的技术工具和专业文化。 REU学生亲身体验了科学研究过程的严格学习和强度。最后，学生展示了他们作为学院初级成员的专业知识。 REU站点将其作为组织原则，对少数群体INU.S.的调查使用。社会。 人口统计学专注于所有群体共有的人口过程（生育，死亡率，移民）为调查这些过程中的群体差异的强大工具，以及在诸如财富，贫困，家庭组成，教育成就和劳动力经验等相关条件下的群体差异。在美国，在科学的最高水平上，许多群体的代表性大大不足。鉴于我们的学生在该计划中的组成，对少数群体经验的学术专注于与学生和国家有关。 该计划的更广泛的影响是影响社会科学中高等教育的未来，并特别关注未来学术劳动力的种族/种族和性别多样性。该REU计划的成功已经很明显，其中包括最近获得博士学位并已被授予全国领先的研究大学的学生，许多在全国各地领先的研究生课程的学生，以及其他最近完成REU课程并将很快继续学习研究生院的学生。