SBE-UKRI: Collaborative Research: Centering Women of Color in STEM: Data-Driven Opportunities for Inclusion

SBE-UKRI：合作研究：以有色人种女性为中心参与 STEM：数据驱动的包容机会

• 批准号: 1934298
• 负责人: Apriel Hodari
• 金额: $ 34.56万
• 依托单位: Eureka Scientific Inc
• 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: 2019-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1934298&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBE; UKRI; Collaborative; Research; Centering

The economic prosperity of the United States relies on progress in science, the advancement of national health initiatives, and overall national prosperity in an increasingly technical economy. These advancements rely on a talented workforce with the ability to nimbly address new challenges and develop innovative technologies. Colleges and universities can best prepare this future workforce by ensuring that educational environments are effective for a diverse range of students. Women received only 20% of bachelor's degrees in physics and computer science between 2004-2014; Black women and Latinas earned only 2% of the physics degrees and 6% of computer science degrees. Math has similar rates: although 44% of bachelor's degrees were earned by women, only 6% were awarded to Black women and Latinas. The numbers are similar in the United Kingdom. This project is jointly funded with the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) under the SBE-UKRI Lead Agency collaborative research opportunity.This project will support institutions concerned with addressing this underrepresentation by creating a portal through which US and UK STEM departments can measure their success at graduating women (especially women of color) to that of comparable institutions and to their own prior performance. The portal will make use of sophisticated visualization tools and will be accessible and user-friendly. Users of this portal will include: STEM professors who want to contribute to progress in science by recruiting and supporting the most talented young scientific professionals of all backgrounds, and are in need of baseline information about their own institution as well as a way to measure their improvement over time; researchers in need of information to better understand the dynamics of underrepresentation and identify powerful practices for broadening participation; and students seeking out more effective places to study. The project will allow for identification of exemplary predominantly white, coeducational institutions, and to create opportunities for peer institutions to document their own progress towards inclusion. Since most women of color attend predominantly white institutions, this work has the potential to improve the postsecondary educational environment where the majority of these women work and learn. Improving the diversity of the scientific workforce has immediate benefits from science and also the prosperity of the nation.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.

美国的经济繁荣依赖于科学的进步，国家健康计划的进步，以及在日益技术化的经济中的整体国家繁荣。这些进步依赖于有能力灵活应对新挑战和开发创新技术的人才队伍。学院和大学可以通过确保教育环境对各种各样的学生有效来为未来的劳动力做好准备。2004-2014年间，女性仅获得20%的物理和计算机科学学士学位;黑人女性和拉丁裔仅获得2%的物理学位和6%的计算机科学学位。数学也有类似的比例：尽管44%的学士学位是由女性获得的，但只有6%授予了黑人女性和拉丁裔。英国的数字也差不多。该项目由英国经济和社会研究理事会（ESRC）联合资助，由SBE-UKRI牵头机构合作研究，通过创建一个门户网站，美国和英国的STEM部门可以将其女性毕业生（特别是有色人种女性）的成功率与可比机构和自身之前的表现进行比较，从而支持相关机构解决这一代表性不足的问题。该门户将利用先进的可视化工具，方便用户使用。该门户网站的用户将包括：希望通过招募和支持各种背景的最有才华的年轻科学专业人员来促进科学进步的STEM教授，他们需要有关自己机构的基线信息以及衡量他们随着时间的推移而取得的进步的方法;需要信息的研究人员，以更好地了解代表性不足的动态，并确定扩大参与的有效做法;学生们在寻找更有效的学习场所。该项目将有助于确定典型的以白色为主的男女同校机构，并为同龄机构创造机会，记录它们在实现包容方面取得的进展。由于大多数有色妇女主要就读于白色机构，这项工作有可能改善大多数有色妇女工作和学习的中学后教育环境。提高科学工作者的多样性不仅能从科学中获得直接利益，还能促进国家的繁荣。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。