Mathematics Leaders Exploring Racial Equity

该项目旨在通过增加成功的数学和STEM学生的数量和多样性来服务于国家利益。学生在高等教育数学课程的经验发生在部门。有关学生和教师的经验，招生标准和部门的其他方面的政策和做法往往有助于长期存在的不平等的代表性和少数民族学生的结果。2020年夏天，在全国范围内关于种族平等的大讨论中，一个基层研讨会汇集了数学界的100多位领导人，以了解这些不同的种族影响，集思广益，并探索积极变革的机会。 与会者建立了一个共同的理解和承诺，以促进更大的种族平等的学生和教师在全国各地的数学系。 该项目旨在扩大最初的工作，目标是鼓励进一步讨论并促进数学科学界更广泛的转变。 系主任，本科生和研究生主任，以及国家数学组织领导人将定期聚集在促进组通过共享阅读和分析部门的政策和做法工作。 每个小组将参与与他们的经验和机构相关的对话，目的是确定更公平地为学生服务的策略。工作组的一些重点领域将包括指导和建议，研究生招生，以及面向学生和面向教师的政策。 参加者将被要求选择一条“变革之路”，这是一个在其部门或机构实现变革的明确目标，并将由其同行负责执行这一任务。除了更广泛地传播讲习班成果外，每组参加者还将通过社交媒体、出版物、国家会议或其他为最大限度地扩大覆盖面和推广可能性而选择的手段，分享他们的活动。 NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project aims to serve the national interest by increasing the number of and diversity of successful mathematics and STEM students. Students’ experiences in higher education mathematics courses take place in departments. Policies and practices relating to student and faculty experiences, admissions criteria and other aspects of departmental have too often contributed to longstanding inequities in representation and outcomes for minoritized students. In the summer of 2020, amidst the larger national discussion on racial equity, a grassroots workshop brought together over 100 leaders in the mathematics community to understand these disparate racial impacts, brainstorm, and explore opportunities for positive change. Participants built a shared understanding and commitment to promote greater racial equity for students and faculty in mathematics departments across the nation. This project looks to expand upon that initial work with a goal of encouraging further discussions and fostering wider transformation in the mathematical sciences community. Department chairs, undergraduate and graduate directors, and national math organization leaders will gather regularly in facilitated groups to work through shared readings and analyze departmental policies and practices. Each group will engage in conversations relevant to their experiences and institutions with a goal of identifying strategies to more equitably serve their students. Some areas of focus for working groups will include mentoring and advising, graduate admissions, and both student-facing and faculty-facing policies. Participants will be asked to select an “Avenue of Change”, which is an explicit goal to bring about change in their department or at their institution, and will be held accountable by their peers to carry out this task. In addition to broader dissemination of workshop outcomes, each cohort of participants will share their activities through social media, publications, sessions at national meetings or other means chosen to maximize reach and potential replication. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students.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.