Doctoral Dissertation Research: Evaluating the Efficacy of Broadening Participation Efforts Beyond University Settings

博士论文研究：评估大学环境之外扩大参与努力的有效性

• 批准号: 2049469
• 负责人: Ulla Berg
• 金额: $ 1.66万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-02-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2049469&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Evaluating; Efficacy

Diversity promotion projects and equity programs aim to make a positive impact on student and university life. While there is substantial data in the science of broadening participation on the efficacy of these programs in STEM educational settings, less is known about the afterlives of these programs when students transition out of the university. This doctoral dissertation project examines the social and economic dynamics of diversity programs among marginalized youth in the U.S. as they transition outside of university settings. In addition to supporting the ethnographic training of a graduate student in anthropological analysis and rigorous data collection, the project has the potential to document the long-term effects of university equity programs, and its impact on these youth after graduation. The findings of this study will enhance the public's understanding of the social and economic dynamics of diversity recruitment in institutional settings, the impact of equity programs in higher education. This project examines the long-term effects of university diversity and equity training programs through 12-months of ethnographic research in a racially diverse U.S. city that is also home to a major research university. The researchers will follow a sample of students from two different historically underrepresented groups as they encounter diversity programs both in the university setting and after graduation. Following students out of the university as they enter civilian life provides a much needed longitudinal dimension in understanding the effects of the university's efforts to broaden participation among underrepresented groups. This project will generate data deriving from ethnographic fieldwork using a mixed-methods approach: ethnographic interviews, oral/migration family histories, participant observation, surveys, and archival work. The findings from this project have the potential to advance understanding what factors enable and inhibit underrepresented populations' access to universities and economic opportunities. The findings will inform scientific debates on higher education and the long-term effects of diversity programs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

多样性促进项目和公平计划旨在对学生和大学生活产生积极影响。尽管在STEM教育环境中扩大有关这些计划的疗效的科学方面有实质性数据，但当学生从大学过渡时，这些计划的来历却少了。该博士学位论文项目研究了美国在大学环境之外过渡时，美国年轻人的多样性计划的社会和经济动态。除了支持人类学分析和严格数据收集研究生的民族志培训外，该项目还可以记录大学公平计划的长期影响及其对毕业后这些年轻人的影响。这项研究的结果将增强公众对机构环境中多样性招募的社会和经济动态的理解，即公平计划在高等教育中的影响。 该项目通过在种族多样化的美国城市中的12个月民族志研究研究了大学多样性和股票培训计划的长期影响，这也是一所主要的研究大学的所在地。 研究人员将跟随来自两个不同历史上代表性不足的群体的学生样本，因为他们在大学环境和毕业后都遇到多元化计划。在大学进入平民生活中的学生之后，他们为了解大学扩大人数不足的群体参与的努力的影响提供了急需的纵向维度。该项目将使用混合方法的方法来生成来自人种学现场工作的数据：人种学访谈，口腔/移民家庭历史，参与者观察，调查和档案工作。该项目的发现有可能促进了解哪些因素可以和抑制代表人群不足的人获得大学和经济机会。这些发现将为高等教育和多样性计划的长期影响提供科学辩论。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来获得支持。