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社会科学家与德克萨斯大学系统路易斯斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟 (LSAMP) 科学家之间的合作项目，旨在了解拉丁裔学生为他们的科学、技术、工程和数学带来的资产(STEM) 教育和职业。尽管拉丁裔本科生计划以相当于或超过其他种族/族裔群体的同龄人的速度进入 STEM，但他们在 STEM 劳动力和 STEM 学位获得者中的比例不足。与通过强调拉丁裔学生缺乏的东西来调查这些差异的基于赤字的研究相反，本研究重点关注拉丁裔学生为其教育和职业带来的社区文化资源，通过绘制拉丁裔学生的社交网络，衡量他们的社区文化财富（CCW）。记录他们在 STEM 研究方面的经验，并跟踪他们从大三到大四、然后进入职场或进入 STEM 研究生课程时职业身份的变化，该项目将推进八个 LSAMP 机构将支持结构制度化的方式本科生 STEM 教育。项目团队将记录一组拉丁裔/o 学生在 3 年中每年秋季的经历和关系，并将采用新的定量技术来评估他们从大学到职业的纵向过渡过程中的 CCW。混合方法设计是第一个将 CCW 与自我网络分析相结合的方法，这不仅扩展了 STEM 教育研究人员可用的认识论和方法论，而且更广泛地说，可以为高等教育机构开发 CCW 和社交网络提供信息。基于STEM编程最后，该项目说明了拉美裔服务机构 (HSI) 和新兴 HSI 可以拥有的机构和伙伴关系多样化的重要性，因为它们将继续见证集体种族化经历。该合作项目由 STEM 教育中的种族平等计划（EHR 种族平等）资助，该计划支持研究和实践项目，调查如何将种族平等因素纳入科学的改进、获奖项目旨在集中受 STEM 企业内系统性不平等影响的个人、社区和机构的声音、知识和经验。该计划符合 NSF 的核心价值。支持来自全国不同人口群体、地区和组织类型的杰出研究人员和创新思想家 EHR 种族平等基金从整个 EHR 项目中汇集，以表彰其项目与集体研究和开发主旨的一致性。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。