Broadening Participation in STEM Faculty: A Program to support the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE)

少数族裔在美国大学经济学终身教授职位上的代表性严重不足，导致代表性不足的年轻群体缺乏榜样。种族和民族多样性的缺乏阻碍了多元化STEM劳动力的创造，也导致经济学研究主题缺乏多样性。扩大STEM教师的参与：支持经济学终身教职多样性倡议（DITE）的计划是一个支持代表性不足的经济学初级教师的计划。该计划的总体目标是增加在学院中担任终身职位的代表性不足的经济学教授的数量。该项目还将侧重于在传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）和西班牙裔服务学院和大学（HSCUs）增加经济学终身教职人员。DITE研究员将得到著名经济学教授的指导，在整合研究项目、建立可信的研究组合、出版和服务记录等方面获得经济部门的终身职位。DITE将在两年的资助期内，每年资助15名初级经济学教师（累计最多30名）。获得终身职位的ite研究员有望指导您的有色人种经济学院。通过帮助美国的经济学教师多样化，拟议的活动将有助于为21世纪创造多元化的STEM劳动力和研究议程，从而加强美国经济。扩大STEM学院的参与：扩大STEM学院的参与：支持经济学终身教职多样性倡议（DITE）的计划是一个支持经济学专业中代表性不足的初级教师的计划。来自少数族裔和族裔群体的经济学家在学院和大学教师队伍中的代表性持续不足，这使得通过增加代表性不足群体（URM）的存在来改变STEM领域和学术界的特别努力势在必行。严重的代表性不足不仅阻碍了美国？尽管美国没有能力为21世纪及以后创造多元化的STEM劳动力，但它也使经济研究偏离了可能与这些代表性不足的群体有关的问题。因为URM的经济学教授太少了，当这些教授中的任何一个在终身职位的管道中失去时，社会的成本都会更大。DITE课程旨在帮助URM经济学教授解读学院，揭开晋升和终身职位过程的神秘面纱，并确定、发展和利用研究项目获得终身职位。因此，DITE项目将通过多元化的经济学教师和增强的研究组合使美国受益。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Minorities are seriously under-represented in tenured economics faculty positions in US universities resulting in lack of role models for young under-represented groups. This lack of racial and ethnic diversity hampers the creation of a diversified STEM workforce and also lead to lack of diversity in research topics in economics. Broadening Participation in STEM Faculty: A Program to Support the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE) is a program to support under-represented junior faculty in economics. The broad goal of the program is to increase the number of faculty from under-represented populations in economics who hold tenured positions in the academy generally. The project will also focus on increasing tenured faculty in economics at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Colleges and Universities (HSCUs). DITE fellows will be mentored by distinguished professors of economics in integrating research projects, establishing a credible research portfolio and publishing and service record that will get them tenured in economic departments. DITE will support a yearly cohort of 15 junior economics faculty over the two-year span of this proposed grant (for a cumulative total of up to 30). DITE fellows who obtain tenure are expected to mentor your economic faculty of color. By helping to diversify the economics faculty in the US, the proposed activity will help to create a diversified STEM workforce and research agenda for the 21st century, thus strengthening the US economy. Broadening Participation in STEM Faculty: Broadening Participation in STEM Faculty: A Program to Support the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE) is a program to support under-represented junior faculty in the economics profession. The continued gross under-representation of economists from racial minorities and ethnic groups in the ranks of college and university faculty creates an imperative for special efforts to change the STEM field and the academy through increased presence of under-represented groups (URM). Serious under-representation does not only inhibit US?s ability to create a diversified STEM workforce for the 21st century and beyond, it also skews economic research away from issues that may concern to these under-represented groups. Because there are so few URM professors of economics, there is a greater cost to society when any single one of these professors is lost in the tenure pipeline. The DITE curriculum is designed to help URM faculty of economics decode the academy, demystify the promotion and tenure process, and identify, develop, and leverage a research program to a tenure position. The DITE program will therefore benefit the US through a diversified economics faculty and an enhanced research portfolio.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.