HSI Planning Project: Shifting perspectives about why women of color are underrepresented in biology: the role of intersectional identities

在改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）的支持下，这个Track 1规划项目旨在更好地了解旧金山州立大学（SF State）生物学专业的有色人种女性离开本专业的原因。虽然女性在生物学领域的代表性很强，但有色人种女性的代表性仍然不足。这种代表性不足既限制了有色人种女性在生命科学领域的职业发展，也限制了将她们独特的观点和技能纳入生物科学工作队伍对科学的未实现的好处。本规划项目旨在利用本项目收集的关键信息，确定有色人种女性在生物学领域面临的障碍和促进因素。一款智能手机应用程序将用于捕捉SF州立大学生物系女性的日常经历信息，她们的多样性很强。有关这些经历的详细信息将通过对有色人种女性的信息访谈获得，这些女性通过智能手机应用程序提供了关于她们日常经历的信息。该规划项目将有助于阐明在生物学中具有交叉身份的有色人种女性所遇到的复杂性，以开发基于证据的干预措施，进一步支持她们在生命科学领域的宝贵进步。HSI计划旨在加强HSI的本科STEM教育和能力建设。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。该项目通过产生关于SF州立大学有色人种本科女性生物学复杂性的新知识来实现这些总体目标。这些经验在很大程度上仍然是未知的，并且没有使用基于资产或交叉镜头进行调查。这些镜头将用于分析通过使用MA2智能手机应用程序收集的SF州立大学生物学专业有色人种本科女性所经历的微肯定和微侵犯的数据。将收集600名参与者的回答，以记录定量和定性结果。为了验证定性结果，将进行20次信息访谈（即受访者验证），以更好地了解促进有色人种女性在生物学上坚持的因素（行为、规范、价值观、社会环境）。这一新知识将用于设计基于资产的干预措施，以提高具有交叉身份的有色人种女性在生命科学中的持久性。总体而言，该资助计划项目将为有色人种女性提供机会，从她们自己的角度分享她们在生物学方面的经验，以真实地告知一项专注于教师发展和改进教学实践的干预措施，这是对文化的反应。调查结果的传播将有助于全国各机构努力使妇女能够坚持下去。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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 Planning Project aims to better understand the reasons women of color majoring in biology at San Francisco State University (SF State) leave their major. While women are well represented in the field of biology, women of color remain underrepresented. This underrepresentation both limits the career advancement of women of color in the life sciences, and the unrealized benefit to science by inclusion of their unique perspectives and skills in the biological sciences workforce. This planning project seeks to identify the barriers and facilitators for women of color in biology, using critical information gathered in this project. A smartphone application will be used to capture information about the day-to-day experiences of women in the biology department at SF State, who are highly diverse. Detailed information about these experiences will be gained by conducting informational interviews with a subset of the women of color who contributed information about their day-to-day experiences via the smartphone app. This planning project will help to elucidate the complexities encountered by women of color who hold intersectional identities in biology to develop an evidence-based interventions to further supports their valuable advancement in the life sciences.The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims. This project achieves these overarching goals by generating new knowledge about the complexities experienced by undergraduate women of color in biology at SF State, an HSI. These experiences remain largely unidentified and have not been investigated using asset-based or intersectional lenses. These lenses will be used to analyze data about the microaffirmations and microaggressions experienced by undergraduate women of color in biology at SF State collected through use of the MA2 smartphone application. Responses from 600 participants will be collected to document quantitative and qualitative results. To validate the qualitative results, 20 informational interviews will be conducted (i.e., respondent validation) to better understand the factors (behaviors, norms, values, social environment) that facilitate persistence in biology for women of color. This new knowledge will be used to design an asset-based intervention that improves persistence of women of color having intersectional identities in the life sciences. Overall, the funded planning project will provide women of color with the opportunity to share their experiences in biology from their own perspective to authentically inform an intervention focused on faculty development and improved pedagogical practice that is culturally-responsive. Dissemination of the findings will contribute to efforts at institutions across the country to enable the persistence women.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.