Broadening Participation in Economics: The AEA Summer Program with Inclusive Mentoring

扩大经济学参与：AEA 夏季项目的包容性指导

• 批准号: 2049799
• 负责人: Omari Swinton
• 金额: $ 275万
• 依托单位: Howard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2049799&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broadening; Participation; Economics; AEA; Summer

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).This award funds Howard University as the host of the American Economic Association Summer Training Program. The goal of the AEASTP is to help talented undergraduate students advance their technical skills and conduct research in economics in preparation for studies at the doctoral level. Organizers make special efforts to recruit students from groups under-represented in the economics profession. The program combines research experience with intensive coursework and career mentoring in a residential experience. Instructors in the program include both leading economists and a cohort of Summer Fellows, graduate students in economics who serve as mentors for the students. Fellows get training in inclusive teaching methods and benefit from access to the faculty instructors, who work with both students and fellows as research mentors. AEASTP students will participate in research experiences at a number of federal agencies and non-profit organizations in the Washington DC area, and the instructional staff will include economists employed by the Federal Reserve Bank Board of Governors. The awardee institution will partner with the Women’s Institute on Science, Equity, and Race (WISER) to provide year-around mentoring for AEASTP participants.The road to successful Ph.D. study in economics can be a rocky one, especially for students coming from minority-serving institutions and institutions that do not have a strong research focus. Obstacles include undergraduate economics curricula that are often oriented towards the most popular student career goal - business - than Ph.D. study, a lack of familiarity with the application process, and financial limitations. One consequence is that several important demographic groups are under-represented on economics faculties in the U.S. Over the course of this award, a strong cohortof students will be able to successfully advance to become mature researchers in economics and related social sciences. Their experiences will be instrumental in their later careers in allowing them to use a strong professional network to help them foster a more inclusive environment in their own teaching and research efforts. By broadening participation in the economics profession, the program will have a positive and lasting impact on shaping professional research agendas in economics and related fields to the benefit of the United States.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.

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。该奖项资助霍华德大学作为美国经济协会暑期培训计划的主办方。AEASTP的目标是帮助有才华的本科生提高他们的技术技能，并进行经济学研究，为博士水平的研究做准备。组织者特别努力从经济学专业代表性不足的群体中招收学生。该计划将研究经验与密集的课程和职业指导结合在一起。该计划的教师包括领先的经济学家和一批暑期研究员，经济学研究生作为学生的导师。研究员接受包容性教学方法的培训，并受益于教师的指导，教师作为研究导师与学生和研究员一起工作。AEASTP的学生将参加在华盛顿特区地区的一些联邦机构和非营利组织的研究经验，教学人员将包括由理事会的联邦储备银行雇用的经济学家。获奖机构将与妇女科学、平等和种族研究所（WISER）合作，为AEASTP参与者提供全年的指导。经济学研究可能是一个不稳定的，特别是对于来自少数民族服务机构和没有很强的研究重点的机构的学生。障碍包括本科经济学课程，这些课程往往面向最受欢迎的学生职业目标-商业-而不是博士。研究，缺乏对申请过程的熟悉，以及财务限制。一个后果是，几个重要的人口群体在美国经济学系的代表性不足。在这个奖项的过程中，一群强大的学生将能够成功地成为经济学和相关社会科学的成熟研究人员。他们的经验将有助于在他们以后的职业生涯中，让他们使用强大的专业网络，帮助他们在自己的教学和研究工作中培养一个更具包容性的环境。通过扩大经济学专业的参与，该计划将对塑造经济学和相关领域的专业研究议程产生积极和持久的影响，以造福美国。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。