CAREER: Bridging the STEM Skills and Employment Gap for the Future of Work

职业：弥合 STEM 技能和就业差距，打造未来工作

基本信息

批准号：
2239538
负责人：
Hatim Rahman
金额：
$ 48.56万
依托单位：
Northwestern University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2023-05-01 至 2028-04-30
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2239538&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CAREER Bridging STEM Skills Employment

项目摘要

Artificial intelligence (AI) is predicted to disrupt the way many people work, especially adults without a college degree. On the other hand, AI is predicted to create new job opportunities, primarily in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). This project explores how more adults without college degrees can obtain these higher-paying STEM jobs created by AI and new technologies. Because employment is the primary way people gain social and economic mobility in the U.S.A., the goal is to develop new, holistic understanding about the factors that will help adults without college degrees to overcome labor market barriers to access, participate in, and complete STEM education and training for higher-paying jobs created by new technologies. The results will help develop grounded solutions for institutions, organizations, and policy makers to ensure the future of work will have more equitable societal outcomes, particularly for groups who have largely been left behind as jobs have transformed in the past few decades. The project pursues this objective in three ways. First, the project uses ethnographic methods to develop in-depth, grounded hypotheses about the organizational, social, and behavioral factors that adults without a college degree face when trying to obtain new STEM skills and jobs. Second, the project uses the insights from the first part to employ field experiments testing which grounded hypotheses lead to better organizational, individual, and employment outcomes. Third, these results contribute to creating evidence-based curriculum and strategies that organizations and universities can use to help people without a college degree obtain higher-paying jobs created by AI and new technologies.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.

人工智能 (AI) 预计将颠覆许多人的工作方式，尤其是没有大学学位的成年人。另一方面，人工智能预计将创造新的就业机会，主要是在科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 领域。该项目探讨了更多没有大学学位的成年人如何获得人工智能和新技术创造的高薪 STEM 工作。由于就业是人们在美国获得社会和经济流动性的主要方式，因此我们的目标是对有助于没有大学学位的成年人克服劳动力市场障碍、获得、参与和完成 STEM 教育的因素形成新的、全面的理解以及新技术创造的高薪工作的培训。研究结果将有助于为机构、组织和政策制定者制定切实可行的解决方案，以确保未来的工作将产生更公平的社会成果，特别是对于那些在过去几十年中因工作转变而在很大程度上被抛在后面的群体。该项目通过三种方式实现这一目标。首先，该项目使用人种学方法，对没有大学学位的成年人在尝试获得新的 STEM 技能和工作时面临的组织、社会和行为因素提出深入、有根据的假设。其次，该项目利用第一部分的见解进行现场实验测试，这些有根据的假设可以带来更好的组织、个人和就业结果。第三，这些结果有助于创建基于证据的课程和策略，组织和大学可以利用这些课程和策略来帮助没有大学学位的人获得人工智能和新技术创造的高薪工作。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为是值得的。通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来提供支持。