Preparing Black Female Faculty for Prominence, Power, and Presence in the Academy

为黑人女教师在学院中的地位、权力和存在做好准备

• 批准号: 1651112
• 负责人: Linda Coats
• 金额: $ 5.69万
• 依托单位: Mississippi State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-01 至 2018-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1651112&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Preparing; Black; Female; Faculty; Prominence

The ECR program emphasizes fundamental STEM education research that will generate foundational knowledge in the field. This conference proposal focuses on developing a research agenda that will explore ways to help African American female faculty at predominantly white institutions navigate the promotion and tenure process. The conference will establish a platform for intergroup discussions about diversity in the workplace, illuminate gaps in existing literature to help target future research, and propose pathways for assisting African American faculty and graduate students succeed in the academy. The conference will involve nationally recognized education researchers from multiple STEM disciplines and academic institutions. The conference will help advance knowledge in the field by addressing gaps in research about the larger need to know what works, for whom, and why in academic settings where African American female faculty members often face deep-rooted challenges that threaten their continued participation in STEM fields. The outcomes from this conference will potentially impact participating faculty members, conference presenters, education researchers, as well as the students they teach and mentor. The outcomes will include the development of a white paper that synthesizes current research and suggests what future research should entail. A network to support socialization will be established to link tenured African American female faculty with their graduate and undergraduate students to facilitate the sharing of experiences that fosters upward mobility in academic environments. Therefore, results from this conference will serve as a baseline for instituting pathways capable of forestalling negative encounters prevalent in higher education settings. The impact will reach across disciplines (STEM and the social sciences) and institutional types (predominantly white institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and community colleges) to increase the diversity and quality of the Nation's STEM workforce, which in turn, will help the United States maintain its status in a global society and marketplace. Specific strategies will be disseminated through offices of diversity and inclusion at the participating institutions as well as national and international professional education associations and societies.

ECR计划强调基础STEM教育研究，将在该领域产生基础知识。本次会议的建议重点是制定一个研究议程，将探讨如何帮助非洲裔美国女教师在主要白色机构导航的推广和终身职位的过程。该会议将建立一个平台，用于讨论工作场所的多样性，阐明现有文献中的差距，以帮助针对未来的研究，并提出帮助非洲裔美国教师和研究生在学院取得成功的途径。会议将涉及来自多个STEM学科和学术机构的国家认可的教育研究人员。该会议将有助于通过解决研究中的差距来推动该领域的知识，更大的需要知道什么是有效的，为谁服务，以及为什么在学术环境中，非洲裔美国女性教师经常面临威胁他们继续参与STEM领域的根深蒂固的挑战。 本次会议的成果将潜在地影响参与的教师，会议主持人，教育研究人员，以及他们教和导师的学生。其成果将包括编写一份白色文件，综合目前的研究，并提出未来研究的内容。将建立一个支持社会化的网络，将终身非裔美国女教师与她们的研究生和本科生联系起来，以促进交流经验，促进学术环境中的向上流动。因此，本次会议的结果将作为建立能够预防高等教育环境中普遍存在的负面遭遇的途径的基准。影响将跨越学科（STEM和社会科学）和机构类型（主要是白色机构，历史上的黑人学院和大学以及社区学院），以提高国家STEM劳动力的多样性和质量，这反过来将有助于美国保持其在全球社会和市场中的地位。将通过参与机构的多样性和包容性办公室以及国家和国际专业教育协会和学会传播具体战略。