Measuring the Social Networks and Community Cultural Wealth of Latina/o STEM Undergraduates

衡量拉丁裔/o STEM 本科生的社交网络和社区文化财富

• 批准号: 2201576
• 负责人: Benjamin Flores
• 金额: $ 25.97万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at El Paso
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2201576&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Measuring; Social; Networks; Community; Cultural

This project is a collaboration between social scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and scientists within the University of Texas System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) aimed at understanding the assets Latinx students bring to their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and careers. Although Latinx undergraduates plan to enter STEM at rates equivalent to or exceeding those of their peers from other racial/ethnic groups, they are underrepresented in the STEM workforce and among degree recipients in STEM. As a counter to deficit-based studies that investigate these discrepancies by emphasizing what Latinx students lack, this study focuses on the community cultural resources Latinx students bring to their education and careers. By mapping Latinx students’ social networks, measuring their community cultural wealth (CCW), documenting their experiences with STEM research, and tracking changes in their professional identity as they move from their junior to senior year and then out into the work6force or into STEM graduate programs, this project will advance the ways eight LSAMP institutions can institutionalize supportive structures for undergraduate STEM education. The project team will document the experiences and relationships of a group of Latina/o students each fall over the course of 3 years, and will employ new quantitative techniques for assessing their CCW during their college-to-career transition. The longitudinal mixed method design is among the first to combine CCW with ego network analysis. This not only expands the epistemologies and methodologies available to STEM education researchers, but more broadly speaking, can inform institutions of higher education as they develop the CCW- and social network-based STEM programming that is critical to Latina/o undergraduate STEM education. Finally, this project illustrates the importance of diversifying the range of institutions and partnerships Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) and emerging HSIs can have, given they will continue to bear witness to the collective racialized experiences of Latinx students pursuing their post-secondary education.This collaborative project is funded through the Racial Equity in STEM Education program (EHR Racial Equity). The program supports research and practice projects that investigate how considerations of racial equity factor into the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and workforce. Awarded projects seek to center the voices, knowledge, and experiences of the individuals, communities, and institutions most impacted by systemic inequities within the STEM enterprise. This program aligns with NSF’s core value of supporting outstanding researchers and innovative thinkers from across the Nation's diversity of demographic groups, regions, and types of organizations. Funds for EHR Racial Equity are pooled from programs across EHR in recognition of the alignment of its projects with the collective research and development thrusts of the four divisions of the directorate.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.

该项目是威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的社会科学家与德克萨斯大学系统的科学家Louis Stokes少数群体参与（LSAMP）的合作，旨在了解Latinx学生将资产带入其科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和职业的资产。尽管Latinx大学生计划以等同于或超过其他种族/族裔群体的同龄人的速率进入STEM，但他们在STEM劳动力中和STEM的程度接受者中的人数不足。作为基于赤字的研究，该研究通过强调拉丁裔学生所缺乏的内容来调查这些差异，这项研究重点是拉丁裔学生带来教育和职业的社区文化资源。通过绘制Latinx学生的社交网络，衡量他们的社区文化财富（CCW），记录他们在STEM研究中的经验，并在他们从大三到高年级的时候跟踪其专业身份的变化，然后进入Work6force或进入STEM研究生课程，该项目将促进八个LSAMP机构的支持级别的STEM培养基，以促进八个LSAMP机构对STEM的支持。项目团队将记录一组拉丁裔/O学生的经验和关系，每年落在3年的时间里，并将员工在大学对职业过渡期间评估其CCW的新定量技术。纵向混合方法设计是最早将CCW与自我网络分析相结合的。这不仅扩大了STEM教育研究人员可用的认识论和方法，而且更广泛地说，可以在高等教育的机构开发基于CCW和社交网络的STEM编程中为机构提供通知，这对Latina/O Blatina/O本科STEM教育至关重要。 Finally, this project illustrates the importance of diversifying the range of institutions and partnerships Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) and emerging HSIs can have, given them will continue to bear witness to the collective racialized experiences of Latinx students pursuing their post-secondary education.This collaborative project is funded through the Racial Equity in STEM Education program (EHR Racial Equity).该计划支持研究和实践项目，这些项目研究了对种族资产的考虑如何改善科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和劳动力。授予的项目旨在将个人，社区和机构的声音，知识和经验集中在STEM企业中最受系统机构影响。该计划符合NSF的核心价值，即支持来自全国各种人口群体，地区和组织类型的杰出研究人员和创新思想家。 EHR种族平衡的资金是由EHR各个计划汇总的，以表彰其项目与该局四个部门的集体研究和发展力量的一致性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和广泛影响的评估来通过评估来获得的支持。