CAREER:The Impact of Racialized Experiences on the Career Trajectories of Doctoral and Postdoctoral Underrepresented STEM Students of Color

EHR核心研究计划强调基础STEM教育研究，这将产生该领域的基础知识。这项基本研究将通过一个多层次的研究设计，研究与种族相关的偏见和微攻击性行为如何影响黑人、美洲原住民和拉丁裔/a博士生和博士后研究人员的职业轨迹，从而探讨如何扩大对工程和计算机的参与。这项研究将考察研究人群中的三个主要变量：种族/民族微攻击、冒名顶替者综合症和少数民族地位压力。研究的目标是(1)研究这些障碍对工程和计算机专业学生和研究人员的博士经历和博士后职业抱负的影响；(2)确定这些学科的系/院是否实施了解决这些障碍的计划；(3)测试指导对于减少种族相关的压力源和可能帮助学生和研究人员留在STEM的以学术职业为中心的支持的价值。将使用混合方法研究方法，通过关于指导计划、年度研讨会和视频纪录片的调查、访谈和观察来收集数据。衡量干预带来的变化的核心战略将来自以种族为中心、以学术生涯为中心的指导计划，该计划将使用全国公认的在线指导模式和来自提名人S自己的在线门户网站的信息共同开发。该指导计划将测试该模型如何有效地减少种族/民族微攻击对黑人、拉丁裔/a和美洲原住民博士生和博士后研究人员的影响。结果将是多维的。首先，数据将为理解如何在边缘化有色人种学生的环境中改善代表不足的群体的体验提供基础。第二，这部纪录片将作为STEM管理人员和领导者的培训工具。第三，这部视频纪录片将提供基于研究的应对策略，帮助代表不足的人群将种族主义经历和负面结果的影响降至最低，同时促进对工程和计算领域的博士完成过程和教师生活的平衡视角。第四，这项研究将提供策略，使在工程和计算方面的学习更加肯定，从而导致增加兴趣和最终过渡到教授的长期目标。

The EHR Core Research program emphasizes fundamental STEM education research that will generate foundational knowledge in the field. This essential research will examine ways to broaden participation in engineering and computing through a multi-tiered research design that studies how race-related bias and microaggressive acts affect the career trajectories of Black, Native American, and Latino/a doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers. The research will examine three main variables in the study population: racial/ethnic microaggressions, impostor syndrome, and minority status stress. The goals are to (1) study the impact of such barriers on the doctoral experiences and post-doctoral career aspirations of students and researchers in engineering and computing, (2) determine whether departments/colleges in these disciplines implement programs that address these barriers, and (3) test the value of mentoring for reducing race-related stressors and of academic career-centric support that might help students and researchers remain in STEM.A mixed methods research approach will be used to collect data through surveys, interviews, and observations about the mentoring program, annual workshops, and video documentary. The core strategy for measuring change from the intervention will come from the race-focused, academic career-centric mentoring program that will be co-developed using a nationally recognized online mentoring model and information from the proposer?s own online web portal. This mentoring program will test how effectively the model reduces the impact of racial/ethnic microaggressions for Black, Latino/a, and Native American doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers. Outcomes will be multidimensional. First, data will provide a foundation for understanding how to improve the experiences of underrepresented groups in environments that marginalize students of color. Second, the video documentary will serve as a training tool for STEM administrators and leaders. Third, the video documentary will provide research-based coping strategies to help members of the underrepresented population minimize the impact of racialized experiences and negative outcomes while promoting a balanced perspective on both the doctoral completion process and faculty life in engineering and computing. Fourth, the study will offer strategies to make learning in engineering and computing more affirming, thereby leading to the long-term goal of increased interest and eventual transition into the professoriate.