Comfort over Change: a Case Study of Diversity and Inclusivity Efforts in US Higher Education
Comfort over Change: a Case Study of Diversity and Inclusivity Efforts in US Higher Education
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DOI：
10.1007/s10755-020-09541-7
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发表时间：
2021-03-11
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Nunez, Anne-Marie
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作者：
Gonzales, Leslie D.;Hall, Kayon;Nunez, Anne-Marie
使历史上的白人组织多样化并使其更具包容性的努力种类繁多，种类繁多。然而，尽管它们在美国高等教育中无处不在，但很少有研究实时检查它们。因此，本案例研究以为期两天的会议为特色，邀请利益攸关方考虑如何使科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域不仅更加多样化，而且具有包容性。根据观察、文献和访谈数据，我们提供了三个发现。首先，我们分享了主持人在为他们的项目定义多样性方面准备不足的情况。第二，我们同意，调解人和大多数白人与会者犹豫，有时直接回避关于STEM历史和当代排斥的对话，特别是关于种族主义的对话。第三，我们表明，虽然主持人和大多数白人参与者避免就STEM空间的排他性进行具体对话，但少数族裔参与者一再要求进行更具体的对话。我们结束了这篇论文，并对管理者、教授、DEI实践者和资助者未来的研究和实践提出了几点启示。
Efforts to diversify and make historically white organizations more inclusive are as varied as they are numerous. Yet, for all their ubiquity in U.S. higher education, few studies have examined them in real time. This case study thus features a two-day meeting where stakeholders were invited to consider how to make science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields not only more diverse but also inclusive. Drawing on observational, documentary, and interview data, we offer three findings. First, we share how facilitators were ill-prepared to define diversity for their project. Second, we share that facilitators and most white participants hesitated and sometimes directly avoided conversations about historical and contemporary exclusion in STEM, especially regarding racism. Third, we show that, while facilitators and most white participants avoided specific conversations about the exclusionary nature of STEM spaces, racially minoritized participants repeatedly requested more concrete conversations. We conclude the paper with several implications for future research and practice for administrators, professors, DEI practitioners, and funders.