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

扩大 STEM 教师的参与：支持经济学终身教职多元化倡议 (DITE) 的计划

• 批准号: 1851845
• 负责人: William Darity
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-05-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1851845&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broadening; Participation; STEM; Faculty; Program

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.

少数族裔在美国大学终身经济学教师职位中的代表性严重不足，导致年轻代表性不足的群体缺乏榜样。 这种种族和民族多样性的缺乏阻碍了多元化STEM劳动力的创建，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的计划（DITE）是一个支持经济学中代表性不足的初级教师的计划。该计划的总体目标是增加来自经济学中代表性不足的人群的教师数量，他们通常在学院中担任终身职位。该项目还将侧重于增加历史上黑人学院和大学（HBCU）和西班牙裔服务学院和大学（HSCU）的经济学终身教职人员。投资、技术和企业发展司的研究员将得到杰出经济学教授的指导，以整合研究项目，建立可信的研究组合，并建立出版和服务记录，使他们在经济系获得终身职位。 投资、技术和企业发展司将在这项拟议赠款的两年期内每年向15名初级经济学教员提供支助（累计总数最多为30人）。 获得终身职位的DITE研究员有望指导你的有色人种经济学院。 通过帮助美国经济学教师多元化，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教师的参与：扩大STEM教师的参与：支持经济学终身教职多样性倡议的计划（DITE）是一个支持经济学专业代表性不足的初级教师的计划。 来自少数民族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严重不足，这使得通过增加代表性不足群体（URM）的存在来改变STEM领域和学院的特别努力势在必行。严重的代表性不足不仅抑制了美国？它不仅削弱了美国为21世纪及以后创造多元化STEM劳动力的能力，也使经济研究偏离了这些代表性不足的群体可能关心的问题。 由于URM的经济学教授很少，当这些教授中的任何一位在终身职位的管道中失去时，社会都会付出更大的代价。DITE课程旨在帮助URM经济学系解码学院，揭开晋升和终身职位过程的神秘面纱，并确定，开发和利用研究计划获得终身职位。 因此，DITE项目将通过多样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NSF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。