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是一个以研究指导研讨会为中心的项目，旨在促进来自未被充分代表的种族和民族群体(特别是非裔美国人、拉丁裔和美洲原住民)的经济学家成功地从初级教员身份过渡到终身副教授。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，尤其是在经济学系，这使得我们有必要做出特别努力，确保来自这些群体的初级教师发展将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族裔经济学家的专业发展，即AEA暑期计划和少数族裔奖学金计划，AEA管道项目，以及经济学专业少数群体地位委员会(CSMGEP)对每个项目的监督。目前，还没有旨在通过专注于研究和教学的指导来增加非洲裔、拉丁裔和原住民美国经济学家在全美高校终身教职职位上的代表性的计划。Dite解决了这一空白。DITE为12名初级学者和6名高级教师导师牵线搭桥，并每年举办一次为期1天半的研讨会，初级研究员在该项目的五个夏天中的每一年都会得到关于他们研究活动的批判性指导以及专业发展建议。每一批学者和导师都会在明年1月的联合社会科学协会(ASSA)会议期间再次会面。每年，12名研究员和6名导师被细分为三个工作小组，主要根据共同的研究活动、机构类型的相似性以及导师可以为初级教员提供的学者网络的适当性来确定。三个团队开会进行密集会议，重点是准备学者S的研究项目，以便成功提交并发表在备受好评的推荐性期刊上。每一次分组会议都允许研究员展示他们的研究成果，并从S导师和参与者那里获得反馈。DITE研究会议定于在同一地点举行年度AEA管道会议的前两天举行。渠道会议解决职业发展问题，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教室，准备拨款提案，以及为专业、所在机构、少数族裔学生和整个社区提供平衡服务。DITE研究员被要求参加管道会议。导师也会参加并参与其中。更广泛的影响：DITE的目标是通过显著增加来自不受重视的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结构中发挥更大的包容性。这一项目对提高代表不足群体的经济学家的数量和质量的努力起到了重要补充作用。DITE的有效性将通过其研究员的出版成功、作为主持人和讨论者出席会议、教学评估、引文计数和接受赠款资金来衡量。Dite研究员的职业生涯将被纵向跟踪至少五年，超过他们在该计划的一年。

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.