Centering Women of Color in STEM: Identifying and Scaling Up What Helps Women of Color Thrive

以 STEM 为中心的有色人种女性：识别并扩大有助于有色人种女性蓬勃发展的因素

基本信息

批准号：
1712531
负责人：
Apriel Hodari
金额：
$ 29.92万
依托单位：
Eureka Scientific Inc
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-08-15 至 2021-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1712531&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Centering Women Color STEM Identifying

项目摘要

The economic prosperity of the United States relies on progress in science, the advancement of national health initiatives, and overall national prosperity in an increasingly technical economy. This prosperity relies on a talented workforce with the ability to nimbly address new challenges and develop innovative technologies. Colleges and universities can best prepare this future workforce by ensuring that educational environments are effective for a diverse range of students. In the United States from 2001-2012 women received 20% of the bachelor's degrees granted in physics, but Black women and Latinas received only 2%. While women also received about 20% of engineering and computer science bachelor's degrees, only a modestly higher percentage of those women - when compared to their colleagues in physics - are Black and Latina: 3.4% in engineering and 6% in computer science. This project will build on prior work studying STEM departments at coeducational, predominantly white institutions in which women of color are thriving. In prior studies, few of the over 600 women of color found support within their own undergraduate departments. This project will explore actions STEM professors can take so that women of color can find support within their departments rather than having to seek refuge from those departments. Researchers from Eureka Scientific, Inc. and St. Mary's College of Maryland will conduct in-depth, mixed-method studies of out-performing STEM departments in the United States and England in which women of color are thriving in numbers significantly higher than averages elsewhere. The project will serve to identify shared approaches across these departments; develop a body of tested, practical elements of success that STEM departments can adopt; and a set of measures that will let the departments monitor the success of their transformation process. The project will advance research-based knowledge to promote systemic change in STEM education and will provide a clearer understanding about factors that promote success for young women of color in a variety of institutional contexts. The project will culminate in a meeting with participants from 11 institutions who will examine the applicability of the findings at their home institutions including: doctoral universities, master's universities, baccalaureate colleges, open enrollment, public and private institutions.

美国的经济繁荣依赖于科学的进步、国家卫生举措的进步以及日益技术化的经济中的整体国家繁荣。这种繁荣依赖于有能力灵活应对新挑战和开发创新技术的优秀劳动力。学院和大学可以通过确保教育环境对不同类型的学生有效来为未来的劳动力做好最好的准备。在美国，2001年至2012年期间，女性获得了物理学学士学位的20%，但黑人女性和拉丁裔女性仅获得了2%。虽然女性也获得了约 20% 的工程和计算机科学学士学位，但与物理学领域的同事相比，这些女性中黑人和拉丁裔的比例仅略高：工程学领域为 3.4%，计算机科学领域为 6%。该项目将建立在之前研究男女同校、以白人为主的机构的 STEM 部门的基础上，其中有色人种女性在这些机构中蓬勃发展。在之前的研究中，600 多名有色人种女性中很少有人在自己的本科院系中找到支持。该项目将探讨 STEM 教授可以采取的行动，以便有色人种女性能够在其部门内找到支持，而不必向这些部门寻求庇护。来自 Eureka Scientific, Inc. 和马里兰州圣玛丽学院的研究人员将对美国和英国表现出色的 STEM 院系进行深入的混合方法研究，其中有色人种女性的数量显着高于其他地区的平均水平。该项目将有助于确定这些部门之间的共享方法；开发一系列经过测试、实用的成功要素，供 STEM 部门采用；以及一系列措施，让各部门监控其转型过程的成功。该项目将推进基于研究的知识，以促进 STEM 教育的系统性变革，并将让人们更清楚地了解促进有色人种年轻女性在各种机构背景下取得成功的因素。该项目最终将与来自 11 个机构的参与者举行会议，他们将检查研究结果在其所在机构的适用性，包括：博士大学、硕士大学、学士学位学院、公开招生、公立和私立机构。