EAGER: Examining Women STEM Faculty's Participation in Entrepreneurship Programs

这个热切的项目致力于在创新领域具有变革潜力的研究。该项目从进入途径的角度探索创业教育计划(EEPS)，以了解影响女性教师参与这些教育计划的影响因素，并帮助发展EEPS，使更广泛的女性STEM教职员工群体参与其中。创新是21世纪经济增长和繁荣的最重要驱动力之一，全国各地的大学都在通过EEPS促进STEM领域的创业和创新。当务之急是确保所有STEM教职员工都能享受到EEPS的好处。虽然与多样性相关的问题越来越多地受到调查，但STEM教育研究未能审查排他性结构如何在我们的教育中永久存在。创业教育也是如此，它严重缺乏考虑妇女参与的研究。为了解决这一差距，拟议的项目将审查教师对平等就业机会的参与，特别是强调妇女以及性别和种族的交叉性。它将集中在两个研究问题上：1)为什么STEM女性教职员工选择从事或不从事EEPS？2)这些原因与种族的交集有何不同？该项目的目的是利用创业评估和教育方面的研究，探索如何通过扩大女性参与创业教育计划来培养更大、更多样化的创业精神和创新教师社区。该项目的结果将为创业教育社区提供基于研究的见解，以制定包容各方的创业教育计划，并为促进女性STEM教师参与的EEP利益相关方提供可行的指导。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This EAGER project engages in research that has the potential to be transformative in the field of innovation. The project explores entrepreneurship education programs (EEPs) from a pathways-to-entry perspective to understand the influencers impacting women faculty’s participation in these educational programs and to assist in the development of EEPs that engages a broader women STEM faculty population.Innovation is one of the most important drivers of economic growth and prosperity in the 21st century, and universities nationwide are fostering entrepreneurship and innovation in STEM fields through EEPs. It is imperative to assure that the benefits of EEPs are reaped by the entire STEM faculty population. While diversity-related issues are increasingly being investigated, STEM education research fails to examine how exclusionary structures perpetuate in our education. This also holds true for entrepreneurship education which significantly lacks research that takes participation of women into account. To address this gap, the proposed project will examine faculty participation in EEPs, particularly with an emphasis on women and the intersectionality of gender and race. It will focus on two research questions: 1) Why do Women STEM faculty choose to engage, or not engage, in EEPs? and 2) How do these reasons differ with the intersection of race? The purpose of the project is to leverage research in entrepreneurship assessment and education to explore ways to foster a larger, more diverse community of entrepreneurially-minded, innovative faculty by broadening participation in EEPs to women.The outcomes of this project will provide the entrepreneurship education community with research-based insights for developing EEPs that are inclusive and offer actionable guidance to EEP stakeholders for promoting the participation of women STEM faculty.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.