Connecting nuances of foreign status, professional networks, and higher education outcomes in STEM disciplines over time

随着时间的推移，将 STEM 学科中的外国身份、专业网络和高等教育成果的细微差别联系起来

• 批准号: 1661206
• 负责人: Eric Welch
• 金额: $ 91.25万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-01 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1661206&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Connecting; nuances; foreign; status; professional

A team of researchers from Arizona State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Arkansas will investigate factors affecting the retention of foreign STEM higher education faculty in the US and those factors leading to their being more productive members of the workforce and advancing STEM in this country. In an era of global competition for academic STEM talent, and despite the high representation of foreign STEM faculty in US post-secondary institutions, significant research and data gaps have limited our understanding of how multiple dimensions of foreign background and experience, professional and collaborative networks, and key faculty outcomes are related. This project will help to address gaps through syntheses and new analyses of existing datasets and the piloting of a novel survey. The project is funded by the EHR Core Research (ECR) program, which supports work that advances the fundamental research literature on STEM learning and training.The study will advance research on foreign faculty by conceptualizing a broader notion of foreign status that goes beyond nationality of birth and education to include cultural characteristics, family composition and location, local community engagement, and international professional experience.  The project scope will focus on the analysis and integration of extant data, and in so doing make clearer the value and limitations of those datasets. Methodologically, the project will use an innovative social network design to collect and integrate various national datasets to capture and analyze the relationships among a) dimension of foreign status; b) professional network structure, cultural composition and resources; and c) work history, satisfaction, mobility, mentoring, and productivity, among others. The study will be conducted in three integrated parts: 1) expanded analysis of existing NSF-sponsored survey datasets to investigate how foreign status and network structure and outcomes are related; 2) collection, merging and analysis of extant scientist data to determine gaps and complementarities critical for longer-term data collection; and 3) initial data collection to develop new survey designs and validate new metrics. Study findings will be relevant for the design of interventions to improve the integration, satisfaction, retention, and productivity of foreign faculty for the long term competitiveness of the nation.

来自亚利桑那州立大学、佐治亚理工学院和阿肯色大学的一组研究人员将调查影响外国STEM高等教育教师留在美国的因素，以及那些导致他们成为更有生产力的劳动力并推动美国STEM的因素。在全球争夺STEM学术人才的时代，尽管外国STEM教师在美国高等教育机构中的代表性很高，但重大的研究和数据差距限制了我们对多个维度的外国背景和经验、专业和合作网络以及关键教师成果之间的关系的理解。该项目将通过综合现有数据集和对现有数据集进行新的分析以及试行一项新的调查，帮助弥补差距。该项目由EHR核心研究(ECR)计划资助，该计划支持推进STEM学习和培训基础研究文献的工作。这项研究将通过对外国身份的更广泛概念的概念化，超越出生和教育的国籍，包括文化特征、家庭组成和地点、当地社区参与和国际职业经历，来推进对外国教师的研究。该项目的范围将集中于对现有数据的分析和整合，并在这样做的过程中，更清楚地表明这些数据集的价值和局限性。在方法上，该项目将使用创新的社交网络设计来收集和整合各种国家数据集，以捕捉和分析a)外国身份维度；b)专业网络结构、文化构成和资源；c)工作历史、满意度、流动性、指导和生产力等之间的关系。这项研究将分三个部分进行：1)扩大对现有NSF赞助的调查数据集的分析，以调查外国状况与网络结构和结果是如何相关的；2)收集、合并和分析现有的科学家数据，以确定对长期数据收集至关重要的差距和互补性；以及3)初步数据收集，以制定新的调查设计和验证新的衡量标准。研究结果将与设计干预措施相关，以提高外国教师的整合、满意度、留住和生产力，以提高国家的长期竞争力。

项目成果

Comparing the collaboration networks and productivity of China-born and US-born academic scientists

• DOI: 10.1093/scipol/scy060
• 发表时间: 2018-10
• 期刊: Science and Public Policy
• 影响因子: 2.7
• 作者: E. V. van Holm;Yonghong Wu;E. Welch

The impacts of foreignness and cultural distance on commercialization of patents

异国情调和文化距离对专利商业化的影响

• DOI: 10.1007/s10961-020-09775-9
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: The Journal of Technology Transfer
• 作者: van Holm, Eric Joseph;Jung, Heyjie;Welch, Eric W.
• 通讯作者: Welch, Eric W.

International Faculty Perceptions of Departmental Climate and Workplace Satisfaction

• DOI: 10.1007/s10755-018-9432-4
• 发表时间: 2018-10-01
• 期刊: INNOVATIVE HIGHER EDUCATION
• 影响因子: 2.2
• 作者: Mamiseishvili, Ketevan;Lee, Donghun
• 通讯作者: Lee, Donghun

Differential social network effects on scholarly productivity: An intersectional analysis

不同的社交网络对学术生产力的影响：交叉分析

• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Science technology human values
• 作者: Gaughan, M;Melkers, J.;Welch, E. W.
• 通讯作者: Welch, E. W.