Collaborative Research: HSI Conference: Exploring the Realities of Contingent Latinx Faculty in STEM

合作研究：HSI 会议：探索 STEM 中拉丁裔教师的现实

• 批准号: 2137332
• 负责人: Jose Munoz
• 金额: $ 4.9万
• 依托单位: University Enterprises Corporation at CSUSB
• 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: 2021-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2137332&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; HSI; Conference; Exploring

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this HSI Conference project aims to more deeply explore across Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI), the realities of contingent (part-time, contract-bound, or non-tenure track) Latinx faculty with various research and teaching roles. This collaborative project consists of a two-part conference focusing on the experiences of Latinx faculty in STEM, one part for faculty members themselves, and one for their administrators. This work will explore the working realities of contingent faculty who represent over 46% of the employed faculty in higher education systems. In particular, we will seek to understand the challenges many contingent faculty, primarily from the Latinx communities, experience in the California State University (CSU) system. CSU schools collectively form one of the largest pools of HSIs in the nation in terms of Latina/o undergraduate enrollment in HSIs. This work will contribute to a fairly untapped and underexplored area of research to help uncover the hidden barriers that prevent the success and navigation of these individuals in their professions. Although this conference proposal is primarily focused on Latinx contingent faculty in STEM, the anticipated work and results will serve as a baseline for future research as well as policy-informed initiatives to support the success of these faculty, and by extension their students.The aims of this project are to (1) coalesce both HSI, Latinx contingent STEM faculty, and administrators to examine the hidden realities of Latinx contingent faculty in STEM; (2) to qualitatively analyze the conference discussions using STEM education research methods and evaluate and analyze conference outcomes from a policy perspective (led by RAND Corporation) to co-generate a policy brief to share with STEM deans and HSI administrators; and (3) develop an infographic summary to disseminate results to organizations and stakeholders with an interest in issues of Latinx contingent faculty in STEM and policy reform. The research methods will be purely exploratory and qualitative in nature using case study research approaches. Qualitative data will be analyzed through thematic and emerging coding techniques and be used toward the development of a codebook and dissemination products that inform the dissemination products (e.g., policy brief). With the support of RAND Corporation, a policy think tank, we will not only disseminate the work through academic journals but reach a wider academic audience of ways to support contingent faculty, which in turn are in the frontlines of supporting undergraduate (and often marginalized) students in STEM. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs. Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also draw from these approaches to generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.

从改善本科STEM教育的支持：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），这个HSI会议项目旨在更深入地探讨整个西班牙裔服务机构（HSI），队伍的现实（兼职，合同约束，或非终身制轨道）拉丁裔教师与各种研究和教学角色。这个合作项目由两部分会议组成，重点是Latinx教师在STEM的经验，一部分是教师自己，一部分是他们的管理员。这项工作将探讨代表高等教育系统雇用教师的46%以上的特遣队教师的工作现实。特别是，我们将寻求了解的挑战，许多特遣队教师，主要来自拉丁裔社区，在加州州立大学（CSU）系统的经验。CSU的学校共同形成了一个最大的HSI在全国范围内的拉丁美洲/O本科招生HSI的游泳池。这项工作将有助于一个相当未开发和未充分探索的研究领域，以帮助发现阻碍这些人在其职业中取得成功和导航的隐藏障碍。虽然这次会议的建议主要集中在拉丁裔特遣队教师在干，预期的工作和结果将作为未来的研究以及政策知情的举措，以支持这些教师的成功基线，并通过扩展他们的学生.这个项目的目的是（1）合并HSI，拉丁裔特遣队干教师，和管理人员检查在STEM拉丁特遣队教师隐藏的现实;（2）运用STEM教育研究方法对会议讨论进行定性分析，并从政策角度对会议成果进行评估和分析（由兰德公司领导）共同制作一份政策简报，与STEM系主任和HSI管理人员分享;（3）制作一份信息图表摘要，向对Latinx特遣队教师在STEM和政策改革方面的问题感兴趣的组织和利益相关者传播结果。研究方法将是纯粹的探索性和定性的性质，使用案例研究的研究方法。将通过专题和新出现的编码技术对定性数据进行分析，并将其用于制定一个码本和传播产品，为传播产品提供信息（例如，政策简报）。在政策智囊团兰德公司的支持下，我们不仅将通过学术期刊传播这项工作，还将接触更广泛的学术受众，了解如何支持临时教师，而临时教师又处于支持STEM本科生（通常是边缘化的）的第一线。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，扩大STEM的参与，并建立HSI的能力。实现这些目标，鉴于不同的性质和背景下的HSIs，需要创新的方法，激励机构和社区转型，促进基础研究（一）参与学生学习，（二）关于如何有效地多样化和增加STEM的参与，以及（三）提高我们对如何在HSIs建立机构能力的理解。HSI计划所支持的项目也将从这些方法中汲取经验，以产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。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。