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

这个EAGER项目从事有可能在创新领域产生变革的研究。该项目从入门途径的角度探讨创业教育计划（EEPs），以了解影响女教师参与这些教育计划的影响因素，并协助发展吸引更广泛女性STEM教师群体的EEPs。创新是21世纪经济增长和繁荣的最重要驱动力之一，全国各地的大学正在通过EEP培养STEM领域的创业和创新。 必须确保EEPs的好处被整个STEM教师群体所收获。虽然与多样性相关的问题越来越多地被调查，但STEM教育研究未能研究排他性结构如何在我们的教育中延续下去。创业教育也是如此，它严重缺乏考虑到妇女参与的研究。为了解决这一差距，拟议的项目将审查教师参与EEPs，特别是强调妇女和性别和种族的交叉性。它将集中在两个研究问题：1）为什么女干教师选择从事，或不从事，在EEPs？2）这些原因与种族交叉有何不同？该项目的目的是利用创业评估和教育方面的研究，探索如何培养一个更大、更多样化的具有创业意识、创新的教师，扩大参与EEPs妇女。这一项目的成果将提供创业教育界的研究-基于发展EEP的见解，这些EEP具有包容性，并为EEP利益相关者提供可操作的指导，以促进女性STEM教师的参与。基金会的使命是履行其法定使命，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。

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.