Postdoctoral Fellowship: STEMEdIPRF: Towards a Diverse Professoriate: Experiences that Inform Underrepresented Scholars' Perceptions of Value Alignment and Career Decisions

博士后奖学金：STEMEdIPRF：走向多元化的教授职称：为代表性不足的学者对价值调整和职业决策的看法提供信息的经验

• 批准号: 2327411
• 负责人: Jennifer Tashiro
• 金额: $ 29.18万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2025-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2327411&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Postdoctoral; Fellowship; STEMEdIPRF; Towards; Diverse; Postdoctoral; Fellowship; STEMEdIPRF; Towards; Diverse

Some colleges and universities work to recruit individuals from underrepresented groups into faculty positions in STEM departments in ongoing efforts to create more diverse, effective, and inclusive learning environments for undergraduate and graduate students. While successful faculty recruitment efforts are essential for the Nation to meet STEM educational challenges, little prior research has focused on experiences that inform the decision-making processes of scholars who opt out of academic careers. This project will focus on scholars from underrepresented groups and recognize intersectionality, that is the interconnected nature of social identities such as race and gender intersectionality, as defined by Crenshaw. This postdoctoral research fellowship project is designed to deepen our understanding of the factors that contribute to decisions to opt out of academic careers.The proposed project aims to advance knowledge of the career choice processes for STEM scholars from underrepresented groups receiving terminal degrees and advance understanding of the experiences that inform those choices. Specifically, the project is designed to address the following research aims: 1) identify scholars’ values and the developmental experiences that informed those values within the context of families, communities, and cultures; 2) evaluate graduate school experiences that shaped scholars’ perceptions of the alignment or misalignment of those values with academia as a factor in employment interests; and 3) examine influences on scholars’ career decisions and values over time. To accomplish these aims, the investigator will conduct a longitudinal qualitative study to explore the career choice processes of scholars from underrepresented groups in chemistry graduate programs at universities across the country using phenomenographic methodology and guided by Social Cognitive Career Theory.This project is funded by the STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (STEM Ed PRF) program that aims to enhance the research knowledge, skills, and practices of recent doctorates in STEM, STEM education, education, and related disciplines to advance their preparation to engage in fundamental and applied research that advances knowledge within the field.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.

一些大学和大学致力于招募从代表性不足的群体招募个人进入STEM部门的教师职位，以为本科生和研究生创造更多的潜水，有效和包容性学习环境。尽管成功的教师招聘工作对于国家应对STEM教育挑战至关重要，但先前的研究很少关注的经验为选择退出学术职业的学者的决策过程提供了信息。该项目将重点关注来自代表性不足的群体的学者，并认识到交叉性，这就是克伦肖（Crenshaw）定义的社会身份（例如种族和性别交叉性）的相互联系。该博士后研究奖学金项目旨在加深我们对有助于选择退出学术职业的因素的理解。拟议的项目旨在促进对获得终端学位不足的群体中STEM学者的职业选择过程的了解，并促进对这些选择的经验的了解。具体而言，该项目旨在解决以下研究的目的：1）确定学者的价值观以及在家庭，社区和文化背景下为这些价值提供信息的发展经验； 2）评估研究生院的经历，这些经验塑造了学者对这些价值观与学术界的一致性或错位的看法，这是就业利益的一个因素； 3）检查对学者的职业决策和价值观的影响。为了实现这些目标，研究者将使用现象学方法学指导，探索全国大学化学研究生课程中代表性不足的群体的学者的职业选择过程，并由社会认知职业理论指导。 STEM，STEM教育，教育和相关学科，以推动他们的准备工作，从而从事领域知识的基础和应用研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估来获得支持的。