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: 0852035
• 负责人: Robert Hummer
• 金额: $ 10.5万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-04-01 至 2010-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0852035&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Undergraduate; Research; Minority

"Minority Group Demography" has been, and will continue to be, the organizing theme for this program. Notably, this program continues to be comprised of roughly 60% under-represented minority group students and about 70% female students; a majority of the REU participants go on to graduate programs.The intellectual merit of this REU Site is the academic and ethical development of junior social science scholars around a topic of immense importance to the future of the United States. The PIs seek to provide the REU students with (1) exposure, (2) experience, and (3) expertise. Specifically, they want to expose undergraduates to both the technical tools and professional culture of social science, and to do that through the scientific course of inquiry in social demography. The PIs want the REU students to experience the rigorous course of study and intensity of the scientific research process firsthand. Additionally, they want these students to demonstrate their expertise as junior members of the academy. To accomplish these goals, the Pis have developed precise program objectives.To begin with, they expose the REU students to social demography via formal course work and seminars. An undergraduate sociology course, Analytic Demography, comprises the heart of the first one-half of the summer at our REU site. In addition, they conduct a series of professionalization workshops, or ?proseminars,? which the REU Site Director and Co-Director hold during the summer. In these proseminars, REU students discuss issues ranging from getting into and paying for graduate school to the myriad ethical issues that demographers and other social scientists confront in conducting their work.Our students will gain concrete experience in three ways. First, the formal course focuses on the methods and materials of demographic research, with an emphasis on the demography of minority groups. Second, the related Stata programming lab provides students with an introduction to statistical analysis and computer literacy to gain competence in the analysis of population-based data sets. Third, the students will experience an intense mentored research relationship with Population Research Center (PRC) graduate students and faculty affiliates. The REU students will be expected to produce, at the end of the summer, a stand-alone ?deliverable? in the form of a scholarly paper, and have much support in doing so.Finally, the REU students will demonstrate their expertise at the end of this program in two ways. First, the students will present their research work at the end of the summer to a group of PRC faculty affiliates and graduate students. Second, each of our students will be funded to present his or her REU research paper at the annual meeting of the Southern Demographic Association (SDA) in the fall following the close of the summer program. The SDA has dedicated two sessions each year to the REU alumni in the past, has been very welcoming of these students, and will be asked to do so again.The broader impact of this 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. This REU site program aims to influence the continued development of both sociology and demography as fields by helping to train the next generation of population scholars in a rigorous, ethical, and multi-racial/ethnic context.

“少数民族人口统计学”已经并且将继续是该计划的组织主题。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的大多数参与者都继续研究研究生课程。该REU网站的智力优点是初级社会科学学者的学术和道德发展，围绕着对美国未来非常重要的话题。 PI寻求为REU学生提供（1）曝光，（2）经验和（3）专业知识。具体来说，他们想将大学生介绍给社会科学的技术工具和专业文化，并通过社会人口统计学的科学探究课程来做到这一点。 PIS希望REU学生亲身体验严格的研究过程和科学研究过程的强度。此外，他们希望这些学生证明自己是学院初级成员的专业知识。为了实现这些目标，PIS已经建立了精确的计划目标。首先，他们通过正式的课程工作和研讨会使REU学生接触社会人群。分析人口统计学的本科社会学课程包括在我们的REU网站上夏季的第一半的核心。此外，他们举办了一系列的专业化研讨会或“ Proseminars”？ REU网站主任和联合导演在夏季担任。在这些事业中，REU学生讨论了从进入研究生院的付费，到人口统计学家和其他社会科学家在进行工作时面临的无数道德问题。我们的学生将通过三种方式获得具体的经验。首先，正式课程着重于人口研究的方法和材料，重点是少数群体的人口统计学。其次，相关的Stata编程实验室为学生提供了统计分析和计算机素养的介绍，以在基于人群的数据集分析中获得能力。第三，学生将与人口研究中心（PRC）研究生和教职员工经历密切的研究关系。期望在夏季结束时，REU学生将出现一个独立的？可交付的？以学术论文的形式，并在这样做方面有很大的支持。最终，REU学生将通过两种方式在该计划的结尾展示他们的专业知识。首先，学生将在夏季结束时向一群中国教职员工和研究生展示他们的研究工作。其次，我们的每个学生都将在夏季计划结束后的秋季，在南部人口协会（SDA）年度会议上介绍他或她的REU研究论文。 SDA过去每年都为REU校友献上了两场会议，这些学生非常热情，并将被要求再次这样做。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，并特别关注对种族/种族和族裔和性别学术工作的种族/种族和性别多样性。该REU网站计划旨在通过在严格，伦理和多种族/种族的环境中帮助培训下一代人口学者，从而影响社会学和人口统计学作为领域的持续发展。