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

多元化促进项目和公平项目旨在对学生和大学生活产生积极影响。虽然有大量的科学数据表明，在STEM教育环境中，这些项目的有效性得到了广泛的参与，但当学生从大学毕业后，对这些项目的影响却知之甚少。本博士论文项目考察了美国边缘化青年在大学环境外过渡时多样性项目的社会和经济动态。除了支持对一名研究生进行人类学分析和严格数据收集方面的民族志培训外，该项目还有可能记录大学公平项目的长期影响，以及它对这些毕业后的年轻人的影响。本研究的结果将增进公众对多元化招生的社会和经济动态的理解，以及高等教育公平计划的影响。本项目在美国一个种族多元化的城市进行了为期12个月的人种学研究，考察了大学多样性和公平培训项目的长期影响，该城市也是一所主要研究型大学的所在地。研究人员将追踪来自两个不同的历史上代表性不足的群体的学生样本，因为他们在大学环境和毕业后都遇到了多元化项目。跟踪大学毕业的学生进入平民生活，为了解大学扩大代表性不足群体参与的努力所产生的影响提供了一个非常需要的纵向维度。本项目将采用混合方法：人种学访谈、口述/迁移家族史、参与者观察、调查和档案工作，从人种学田野调查中获得数据。该项目的研究结果有可能促进了解哪些因素能够和抑制代表性不足的人口进入大学和获得经济机会。这些发现将为有关高等教育和多元化项目的长期影响的科学辩论提供信息。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

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.