Collaborative Research: ECR EIE DCL: The Influence of an Inclusive Climate on STEM Academic Early-Career Outcomes

密歇根大学安娜堡分校的研究人员将与密歇根州立大学的研究人员合作，实施EHR核心研究(ECR)项目。该项目将研究包容性的教育和工作环境如何影响STEM的学术生涯成果，特别是对来自代表性不足群体的早期职业生涯个人。提出者将开发一种新的包容性作者氛围，在这种氛围中，智力贡献在整个研究过程中受到充分欢迎和重视。提倡者将在研究小组、系和专业层面考察包容性环境，其中每一项都可能影响未被充分代表的早期STEM学者的职业前景。最终，这个项目将促进对如何促进STEM中多样性、公平性和包容性的理解。这项研究建立在人与环境匹配(PE Fit)的组织理论基础上，该理论声称，拥有与个人的需求、技能和价值观相一致的组织环境会对职业结果和态度产生积极影响。提出者认为，对于STEM中来自代表性不足的群体的个人来说，“适应”需要一种包容的环境(即，一种重视差异并使所有人都感到受欢迎的环境)。研究人员将开发、测试和实施一项针对STEM四个领域的3500名研究生、博士后学者和助理教授的调查，这四个领域的教职员工少数族裔比例较低，性别比例较低或中等：物理、经济学、生物学和心理学。结构方程模型将量化包容性环境对三个不同职业阶段、不同机构声望的部门以及不同规范和文化的学科中学者职业成就的影响差异。这项研究的一个重要贡献将是发展包容性作者的气候概念，并开发衡量标准和调查工具来衡量它。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。

Researchers from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor will collaborate with researchers from Michigan State University to implement an EHR Core Research (ECR) project. The project will study how an inclusive educational and workplace climate can affect academic STEM career outcomes, particularly for early-career individuals from underrepresented groups. The proposers will develop a novel construct of inclusive authorship climate in which intellectual contributions are fully welcomed and valued throughout the research process. The proposers will examine inclusive climate at the levels of the research group, department, and profession, each of which likely shapes career outcomes for underrepresented, early-career STEM scholars. Ultimately, this project will advance understanding of how to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM.The study builds on the organizational theory of Person-Environment Fit (PE Fit) which claims that career outcomes and attitudes are positively affected by having an organizational environment that is congruent with an individual’s needs, skills, and values. The proposers argue that for individuals in STEM from underrepresented groups, 'fit' requires an inclusive climate (i.e., an environment that values differences and makes all feel welcome). The researchers will develop, test and implement a survey of 3,500 graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and assistant professors in four STEM fields for which faculty racial minority representation is low and gender representation is low or moderate: physics, economics, biology, and psychology. Structural equation modeling will quantify differences in the effect of inclusive climate on career outcomes of scholars at three different career stages, in departments with different institutional prestige, and in disciplines with different norms and cultures. An important contribution of this research will be the development of the inclusive authorship climate concept and the development of metrics and survey instruments to measure it.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.