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

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。虽然在扩大参与度的科学领域，有大量数据表明这些项目在STEM教育环境中的有效性，但人们对这些项目在学生毕业后的来世知之甚少。这一博士论文项目考察了美国边缘化青年在走出大学环境时多元化项目的社会和经济动态。除了支持对研究生进行人类学分析和严格的数据收集方面的人种学培训外，该项目还有可能记录大学公平计划的长期影响，以及毕业后对这些年轻人的影响。这项研究的结果将增进公众对高校多元化招聘的社会和经济动态、公平计划在高等教育中的影响的理解。该项目通过在一座种族多元化的美国城市进行为期12个月的人种学研究，考察了大学多样性和公平培训计划的长期影响，这座城市也是一所主要研究型大学的所在地。研究人员将对来自两个历史上代表性不足的不同群体的学生进行样本跟踪，因为他们在大学环境中和毕业后都遇到了多样化的项目。跟踪学生走出大学，进入平民生活，为了解大学努力扩大代表不足群体的参与所产生的影响提供了一个非常必要的纵向层面。该项目将采用混合方法从人种学实地调查中产生数据：人种学访谈、口述/移民家族史、参与者观察、调查和档案工作。该项目的调查结果有可能促进人们了解哪些因素能够促进和阻碍代表不足的人口进入大学和获得经济机会。这些发现将为关于高等教育和多样性计划的长期影响的科学辩论提供信息。这一奖项反映了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。

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.