Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics

该奖项支持经济学终身教授多样性倡议（DITE）。DITE是一个以研究指导研讨会为中心的项目，旨在为来自未被充分代表的种族和民族群体（特别是非洲裔美国人、拉美裔美国人和印第安人）的经济学家提供从初级教员到终身副教授的成功过渡。来自这些群体的经济学家在大学教职员工中，尤其是在经济系中所占的比例严重不足，因此有必要做出特别努力，以确保来自这些群体的年轻教师能够在研究和教学方面取得成就，从而获得终身教职。美国经济协会（AEA）通过三个主要途径支持少数民族经济学家的专业发展，即AEA暑期计划和少数民族奖学金计划，AEA管道项目，以及经济学专业少数民族地位委员会（CSMGEP）的监督。目前，还没有一个旨在通过以研究和教学为重点的指导来增加非裔美国人、拉丁裔美国人和美国本土经济学家在全美高校终身教职中所占比例的项目。DITE填补了这一空白。DITE为12名初级学者与6名高级教师导师进行匹配，并每年召开一次为期1天半的研讨会，在该项目的5个夏季中，初级研究员每年都会接受有关其研究活动的重要指导以及专业发展建议。在次年1月的联合社会科学协会（ASSA）会议期间，每位DITE学者和导师将再次会面。每年，12名研究员和6名导师被分成三个工作小组，主要根据共同的研究活动、机构类型的相似性以及导师为初级教员提供的学者网络的适当性来确定。这三支队伍进行了密集的会议，重点是为奖学金获得者做准备。5个研究项目成功提交到知名期刊上发表。每个分组会议都允许研究员展示他们的研究并接受小组的反馈。美国的导师和参与者。DITE研究会议定于在同一地点召开的年度AEA管道会议的前两天召开。管道会议讨论专业进步问题，包括选择提交的期刊，准备文献综述，以讲座和研讨会形式管理课堂，准备拨款提案以及平衡对专业，机构，少数民族学生和整个社区的服务。DITE研究员必须参加管道会议。导师也会出席并参与。更广泛的影响：DITE的目标是通过显著增加来自代表性不足群体的初级教师的职业成功几率，在美国经济学教师的人口统计学中发挥更大的包容性作用。本项目为努力增加来自代表性不足群体的经济学家的数量和质量提供了重要补充。DITE的有效性将通过其研究员的出版成功、作为演讲者和讨论者出席会议、教学评估、引用次数和获得资助来衡量。DITE研究员的职业生涯将被纵向跟踪至少五年，超过他们在项目中的一年。

This award supports the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE). DITE is a research mentoring workshop-centered program that seeks to facilitate the successful transition from junior faculty status to tenured associate professor for economists from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups (especially African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans). The gross underrepresentation of economists from these groups in the ranks of university faculty, particularly in economics departments, creates an imperative for a special effort to insure that junior faculty from these groups develop the research and teaching profile that will lead to tenure. The American Economic Association (AEA) supports the professional development of minority economists via three major avenues, the AEA Summer Program and Minority Scholarship Program, the AEA Pipeline Project, and the supervision of each by the Committtee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP). At present there is no program designed to increase the representation of African American, Latino and native American economists in tenured faculty positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States through mentoring focused on research and teaching. DITE addresses that void. DITE matches twelve junior scholars with six senior faculty mentors and convene an annual 1 ½ day workshop where the junior fellows receive critical guidance on their research activities as well as professional development advice in each of the five summers of the program. Each DITE cohort of scholars and mentors meets again during the course of the Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) conference in the following January. In each year the twelve fellows and six mentors are subdivided into three working teams, identified primarily on the basis of common research activities, similarity of institutional type, and appropriateness of the network of scholars that the mentor can provide for the junior faculty member. The three teams meet for intensive sessions focused on preparing the scholar?s research projects for successful submission for publication in well-regarded refereed journals. Each break-out session allows fellows to present their research and receive feedback from the group?s mentors and participants. The DITE research conference is scheduled to convene two days before the annual AEA Pipeline Conference at the same location. The Pipeline Conference addresses professional advancement issues, including journal selection for submission, preparing literature reviews, managing the classroom in lecture and seminar format, grant proposal preparation and balancing service to the profession, one's institution, minority students, and the community at large. DITE fellows are required to attend the Pipeline Conference. Mentors also attend and participate. Broader Impacts: DITE's goal is to play a role in producing greater inclusiveness in the demography of economics faculty in the United States by significantly increasing the odds of professional success for junior faculty from underrpresented groups. This project provides an important addition to efforts to increase the number and quality of economists from underrepresented groups. DITE's effectiveness will be measured by its fellows' publication success, conference attendance as presenters and discussants, teaching evaluations, citation counts, and receipt of grant funding. DITE fellows' careers will be followed longitudinally for at least five years beyond their year in the program.