WORKSHOP:EAGER: Enriching Political Science

这个项目的具体目标是编写一份报告，根据许多国家人口结构、大学生群体的变化以及政治学专业多样化的持续挑战，对当前政治学的研究和实践展开积极和建设性的讨论和探索。与许多研究学术社区内人口变化驱动的文化多样性挑战的方法不同，多样性不应局限于该专业内传统方法和做法的简单“附加”，这些方法和做法将其与简单的描述性统计数据联系起来，如学生招生、博士S的毕业和教师招聘。相反，多样性应该被视为一个足够丰富的概念，可以打开一扇窗，让人们认真讨论政治学可以考虑如何拓宽其研究议程，重新构思其教学技术，并在人口和社会经济复杂性增加带来的挑战的背景下创造专业发展的新做法。该项目的主要学术价值是促进更深入地理解如何将导致文化多样性的人口变化纳入其中，从而丰富学科研究和实践的基本层面。该项目的更广泛影响将成为其他专业协会在考虑如何将文化多样性纳入其学习和实践中时的榜样。通过这种方式，更广泛的学术界将有机会评估它可以在哪里以及如何修改、适应或维护传统的方法和策略，以进一步将文化多样性与其专业的主流结合起来。最广泛地说，这个项目系统地探索了学术学科和我们的社会的种族和民族融合能够携手发展的可能性。

The specific goal of this project is to produce a report that will initiate a spirited and constructive discussion and exploration of the current study and practice of political science in light of changes in the demographic composition of many nations' populations, their university student bodies, and the continuing challenge of diversifying the profession. Unlike many approaches to studying the challenges of cultural diversity driven by demographic change within scholarly communities, diversity should not be limited to a simple "add-on" to traditional approaches and practices within the profession that link it to simple descriptive statistics of student enrollment, production of Ph.D.'s, and faculty recruitment. Rather, diversity should be seen as a concept sufficiently rich to open a window to a rigorous discussion of the ways that political science can consider broadening its research agendas, reconceptualizing its teaching techniques, and creating new practices of professional development in the context of the challenges posed by increased demographic and socioeconomic complexity. The primary intellectual merit of the project is promoting a deeper understanding of how integrating demographic transformations that lead to cultural diversity can enrich fundamental dimensions of the study and practice of the discipline. The broader impact of the project will be to serve as a model to other professional associations as they consider how to integrate cultural diversity within their study and practice. In this way, the broader scholarly community will be given the opportunity to assess where and how it can modify, adapt, or maintain traditional approaches and proactices to further bring cultural diversity with the mainstream of their professions. Stated most broadly, this project systematically explores the possibility that the racial and ethnic integration of academic disciplines and our societies can develop hand in hand.