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

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.

一些学院和大学致力于从代表性不足的群体中招聘教师担任 STEM 部门的职位，不断努力为本科生和研究生创造更加多样化、有效和包容的学习环境，而成功的教师招聘工作对于国家满足 STEM 的要求至关重要。由于面临教育挑战，之前的研究很少关注那些为选择退出学术职业的学者的决策过程提供信息的经验。该项目将重点关注来自代表性不足群体的学者，并认识到交叉性，即种族等社会身份的相互关联的本质。和性别交叉性，如定义该博士后研究奖学金项目旨在加深我们对导致选择退出学术职业的因素的理解。拟议的项目旨在增进对来自获得最终学位和代表性不足群体的 STEM 学者的职业选择过程的了解。具体来说，该项目旨在实现以下研究目标：1）确定学者的价值观以及在家庭、社区和社区背景下影响这些价值观的发展经历。文化；2）评估影响学者看法的研究生经历这些价值观与学术界的一致性或不一致性作为就业兴趣的一个因素；3）研究随着时间的推移对学者职业决策和价值观的影响。使用现象学方法并以社会认知职业理论为指导，探索全国各地大学化学研究生课程中代表性不足群体的学者的职业选择过程。该项目由 STEM 教育博士后研究奖学金 (STEM Ed PRF) 计划资助，旨在加强研究近期博士生在 STEM、STEM 教育、教育和相关学科方面的知识、技能和实践，以促进他们为从事基础和应用研究做好准备，从而推进该领域的知识。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为值得授予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。