WORKSHOP:EAGER: Enriching Political Science

该项目的具体目标是编写一份报告，该报告将根据许多国家人口、大学生群体的人口构成变化以及专业多样化的持续挑战，对当前政治学的研究和实践进行积极和建设性的讨论和探索。与许多研究由学术界人口变化驱动的文化多样性挑战的方法不同，多样性不应局限于传统方法和专业实践的简单“附加”，即将其与学生入学、博士学位产出和教师招聘的简单描述性统计联系起来。相反，多样性应该被视为一个足够丰富的概念，为政治科学可以考虑扩大其研究议程，重新定义其教学技术以及在人口和社会经济复杂性增加所带来的挑战背景下创造新的专业发展实践的方式打开一扇严谨讨论的窗口。该项目的主要知识价值在于促进人们更深入地了解，导致文化多样性的综合人口变化如何丰富该学科研究和实践的基本维度。该项目更广泛的影响将成为其他专业协会考虑如何在其研究和实践中整合文化多样性的典范。通过这种方式，更广泛的学术界将有机会评估在何处以及如何修改、适应或保持传统的方法和实践，以进一步将文化多样性带入其专业的主流。广义地说，这个项目系统地探索了种族和民族融合的学术学科和我们的社会可以携手发展的可能性。

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.