Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics

该奖项支持经济学终身教职多样性倡议（DITE）。 DITE是一个以研讨会为中心的研究指导计划，旨在促进来自代表性不足的种族和民族（特别是非洲裔美国人，拉丁美洲人和美洲原住民）的经济学家从初级教师身份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师队伍中的代表性严重不足，特别是在经济学系，这就要求做出特别努力，以确保来自这些群体的初级教师能够发展出能够导致终身教职的研究和教学形象。 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，AEA暑期课程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）对每个项目的监督。目前，没有任何方案旨在通过侧重于研究和教学的辅导，增加非裔美国人、拉丁美洲人和美洲土著经济学家在美国各地学院和大学终身教职中的代表性。投资、技术和企业发展司填补了这一空白。DITE匹配12名初级学者与6名高级教师导师，并召开每年一次为期一天半的研讨会，初级研究员在该计划的五个夏季中的每一个夏季都获得对其研究活动的重要指导以及专业发展建议。 每一批投资、技术和企业发展司的学者和导师在次年1月联合社会科学协会会议期间再次聚会。 在每一年的12名研究员和6名导师被细分为三个工作组，主要根据共同的研究活动，机构类型的相似性，以及导师可以为初级教师提供的学者网络的适当性来确定。 三个小组开会进行密集的会议，重点是准备学者？的研究项目成功提交发表在备受推崇的期刊。每次分组会议都允许研究员展示他们的研究成果，并从小组获得反馈？的导师和参与者。投资、技术和企业发展司研究会议定于在同一地点举行的年度AEA管道会议的两天前举行。管道会议解决专业发展问题，包括选择提交的期刊，准备文献综述，以讲座和研讨会的形式管理课堂，拨款提案准备和平衡服务的专业，一个人的机构，少数民族学生和整个社区。 投资、技术和企业发展司的研究员必须参加管道会议。导师们也参加了。更广泛的影响：投资、技术和企业发展司的目标是发挥作用，通过大幅度增加来自弱势群体的初级教员的职业成功机会，使美国经济学教员的人口结构具有更大的包容性。 这一项目为增加来自代表性不足群体的经济学家的数量和质量的努力提供了重要补充。 投资、技术和企业发展司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、引用次数和收到赠款来衡量。投资、技术和企业发展司研究员的职业生涯将在他们参加方案的一年之后至少五年内得到纵向跟踪。

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.