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.

“少数群体人口统计”一直并将继续是该计划的组织主题。值得注意的是，该项目仍然由约 60% 的少数族裔学生和约 70% 的女学生组成；大多数 REU 参与者继续攻读研究生课程。该 REU 网站的智力价值是初级社会科学学者围绕对美国未来极其重要的主题进行学术和道德发展。 PI 致力于为 REU 学生提供 (1) 接触机会、(2) 经验和 (3) 专业知识。具体来说，他们希望让本科生接触社会科学的技术工具和专业文化，并通过社会人口学的科学探究课程来实现这一目标。 PI 希望 REU 的学生能够亲身体验严谨的学习过程和科研过程的强度。此外，他们希望这些学生能够展示他们作为学院初级成员的专业知识。为了实现这些目标，Pis 制定了精确的计划目标。首先，他们通过正式课程和研讨会让 REU 学生了解社会人口学。本科社会学课程“人口分析”是我们 REU 校区前半个暑假的核心课程。此外，他们还举办一系列专业化研讨会或“研讨会”。 REU 现场总监和联合总监在夏季举办。在这些研讨会上，REU 的学生讨论的问题包括从进入研究生院和支付研究生费用到人口统计学家和其他社会科学家在开展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，正式课程侧重于人口研究的方法和材料，重点是少数群体的人口学。其次，相关的 Stata 编程实验室向学生介绍统计分析和计算机知识，以获得分析基于人口的数据集的能力。第三，学生将体验与人口研究中心（PRC）研究生和教职人员的密切指导研究关系。 REU 学生预计将在夏季结束时制作一份独立的“可交付成果”。最后，REU 学生将在本项目结束时以两种方式展示他们的专业知识。首先，学生们将在暑假结束时向一群中国教职人员和研究生展示他们的研究工作。其次，我们的每位学生都将获得资助，在夏季项目结束后于秋季举行的南方人口协会 (SDA) 年会上展示他或她的 REU 研究论文。 SDA 过去每年为 REU 校友举办两次会议，一直非常欢迎这些学生，并将被要求再次这样做。该计划的更广泛影响是影响社会高等教育的未来科学，特别关注未来学术劳动力的种族/民族和性别多样性。 REU 站点计划旨在通过在严格、道德和多种族/族裔背景下帮助培养下一代人口学者，影响社会学和人口学领域的持续发展。