Doctoral Dissertation Research: Evaluating the Efficacy of Broadening Participation Efforts Beyond University Settings

博士论文研究：评估大学环境之外扩大参与努力的有效性

• 批准号: 2049469
• 负责人: Ulla Berg
• 金额: $ 1.66万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-02-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2049469&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Evaluating; Efficacy

Diversity promotion projects and equity programs aim to make a positive impact on student and university life. While there is substantial data in the science of broadening participation on the efficacy of these programs in STEM educational settings, less is known about the afterlives of these programs when students transition out of the university. This doctoral dissertation project examines the social and economic dynamics of diversity programs among marginalized youth in the U.S. as they transition outside of university settings. In addition to supporting the ethnographic training of a graduate student in anthropological analysis and rigorous data collection, the project has the potential to document the long-term effects of university equity programs, and its impact on these youth after graduation. The findings of this study will enhance the public's understanding of the social and economic dynamics of diversity recruitment in institutional settings, the impact of equity programs in higher education. This project examines the long-term effects of university diversity and equity training programs through 12-months of ethnographic research in a racially diverse U.S. city that is also home to a major research university. The researchers will follow a sample of students from two different historically underrepresented groups as they encounter diversity programs both in the university setting and after graduation. Following students out of the university as they enter civilian life provides a much needed longitudinal dimension in understanding the effects of the university's efforts to broaden participation among underrepresented groups. This project will generate data deriving from ethnographic fieldwork using a mixed-methods approach: ethnographic interviews, oral/migration family histories, participant observation, surveys, and archival work. The findings from this project have the potential to advance understanding what factors enable and inhibit underrepresented populations' access to universities and economic opportunities. The findings will inform scientific debates on higher education and the long-term effects of diversity programs.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.

多样性促进项目和公平计划旨在对学生和大学生活产生积极影响。虽然有大量的数据在科学上扩大参与这些计划在STEM教育环境中的有效性，但当学生从大学过渡出来时，对这些计划的来世知之甚少。这个博士论文项目研究了美国边缘化青年在大学环境之外过渡时的多样性计划的社会和经济动态。除了支持对研究生进行人类学分析和严格数据收集方面的民族志培训外，该项目还有可能记录大学公平计划的长期影响及其对这些年轻人毕业后的影响。这项研究的结果将提高公众对机构环境中多样性招聘的社会和经济动态的理解，以及高等教育公平计划的影响。 该项目通过在一个种族多元化的美国城市进行为期12个月的人种学研究，探讨大学多样性和公平培训计划的长期影响，该城市也是一所主要研究型大学的所在地。 研究人员将跟踪来自两个不同的历史上代表性不足的群体的学生样本，因为他们在大学环境和毕业后都遇到了多样性计划。跟踪学生走出大学进入平民生活的情况，提供了一个非常需要的纵向维度，以了解大学努力扩大代表性不足群体参与的效果。该项目将使用混合方法从人种学实地工作中产生数据：人种学访谈，口头/迁移家族史，参与者观察，调查和档案工作。该项目的研究结果有可能促进了解哪些因素能够促进和抑制代表性不足的人口获得大学和经济机会。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。