Abstract Women and underrepresented minority (URM) undergraduates declare complete science, technology, engineering, mathematics majors at different rates in comparison to majority groups. Explanations of these differences have long been deficit oriented, focusing on aptitude or similar characteristics, but more recent work focuses institutional contexts, such as academic climate feelings belonging (fit). This study examines the experiences women URM students engineering undergraduate...

Abstract Background Social capital, defined as the people one knows and resources available through that network of people, has been a key variable in research examining participation women underrepresented minority students science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM). This study focuses on two types social capital: instrumental (concrete advice resources) expressive (emotional support encouragement). The analysis interviews with 55 White men engineering undergraduate shows how...

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professional societies (ProSs) are uniquely positioned to foster national-level diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) reform. ProSs serve broad memberships, define disciplinary norms culture, inform accrediting bodies thus provide critical levers for systems change. STEM could be instrumental in achieving the DEI system reform necessary optimize engagement of all talent, leveraging excellence resulting from diverse teams. Inclusive...

As part of a longitudinal research effort that examines the influence social capital on differential persistence and retention among undergraduate engineering majors, this study how degree-related differs for first-year students by gender ethno-racial groups. Social is operationalized as person's network relationships with individuals who hold influential positions (e.g. parent, teacher, advisers) access to resources support in programs. Our data comprise survey responses from 2186 students,...

Undergraduates with sexual and/or gender minority (SGM) identities, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, pansexual, intersexual, asexual, or additional positionalities, often face an unwelcoming STEM microclimate. The microclimate includes the places students experience, such as classrooms labs, and people, peers professors, whom they discuss their program. While previous work offers a framework of microaggressions faced by SGM behavioral, cognitive, emotional...

Professional engineering organizations (PEOs) have the potential to provide women and underrepresented minoritized (URM) students with social capital (i.e., resources gained from relationships) that aids their persistence in undergraduate programs into workforce. We hypothesize URM who participate PEOs are more likely persist major contribute by providing them access insider information supports persistence. Each year for five years we administered surveys closed- open-ended items examine...

Our work focuses on women and underrepresented minority (URM) students’ cultural models of engineering success (CMES) or beliefs about doing well in engineering. Because its consequential effect persistence, we pay special attention to the fit domain CMES—student feelings belonging their program. We examine 1) how student is affected by participatory social capital (i.e., participation professional organizations [PEOs] that have as part mission a goal assist students STEM education careers),...

Abstract Background Women and under-represented minority (URM) students continue to be in STEM earn the lowest proportion of undergraduate engineering degrees. We employed a mixed methods research approach grounded social capital theory investigate when they first consider pursuing as college degree major, who influences this decision, how influence occurs. First, we surveyed 2186 first-year entering programs at 11 universities U.S. during fall 2014. Next, interviewed subsample 55 women URM...

Key Points Disparities in predialysis nephrology care and KRT-directed education significantly influenced home dialysis underuse among marginalized populations. The influence of disparities on lasted for a long time even after starting the dialysis. More studies are needed to uncover layers through which structural racism influences Background Predialysis (KDE) essential incident use. However, there substantial these parameters patients with advanced CKD. effect has not been examined....

In contrast to efforts focusing on improving inclusion in STEM classrooms from kindergarten through undergraduate (K–16), improve scientific meetings and conferences, important hubs of culture, are more recent. Markers that sometimes overlooked at these events can include the composition panels, how workshops run, affordability various other mechanisms maintain pre-existing hierarchies norms limit participation early-career researchers individuals minoritized cultural, linguistic, economic...

In comparison to work on women and historically excluded racial/ethnic minority students in science, technology, engineering, math (STEM), research sexual gender (SGM) STEM is somewhat incipient. There little scholarship available SGM-focused organizations (e.g., oSTEM). Building the previous literature, we examine how provide social capital, both expressive emotional support) instrumental academic resources), that helps feel they fit ultimately persist. We report findings from a large...

It has been widely demonstrated that patient education and empowerment, especially involving shared treatment decisions, improve outcomes in chronic medical conditions, including kidney disease requiring replacement therapies. Accordingly, regulatory agencies the US worldwide recommend decision-making for finalizing one's choice of therapy. is also recognized needs to substantially increase home dialysis utilization leverage its positive impacts on healthcare cost-related outcomes. This...

Structural vulnerability illuminates how social positionings shape outcomes for marginalized individuals, like migrant farmworkers, who are often Latino, indigenous, and/or undocumented. Furthering scholarship on negotiating constraints, we explore school employees (here, Migrant Advocates) broker health care access farmworker families. Ethnographic research in central Florida showed that Advocates perform similar functions as community workers while experiencing dilemmas. We propose...

By law, language information of students in U.S. schools must be identified during enrollment. This affects screening, federal reporting, provision services, and so on. In the Florida Heartland, analyses observations, records, a inventory (survey), interviews show that some parents’ languages registration are not recorded accurately. Raciolinguistic enregisterment played role registrars recording as others their differential questioning practices; employee training, policy, records system...

In this study on K-12 schools in the U.S. Florida Heartland, I take a QuantCrit approach to uncover how processes of data transformation, which call 'racial re-formation', shape utilization and reporting racial ethnic representations students. To understand actual use at schools, apply QuantCrit's principles numbers are not neutral categories/groups neither 'natural' nor given. introduce re-formation' identify mechanisms behind expression data. Analyses observations demonstrate that...

Professional STEM societies have been identified as an important lever to address diversity, equity, and inclusion. In this Perspectives article, we chronicle the highlights of first Amplifying Alliance Catalyze Change for Equity in Success (ACCESS+) convening held September 2021. Here, introduce three-part ACCESS+ approach using a model that entails (i) completion DEI self-assessment known equity environmental scanning tool, (ii) guided action plan development iteration, (iii) sustained...

Abstract Community-University Relationships in Environmental Engineering Service-Learning Courses: Social Network Vectors and Modalities of Communication Purpose The service-learning program, Project Local (anonym), seeks to benefit communities educate students engineering STEM courses three areas: brownfields, stormwater, climate change [9]. People local municipal government known as "community liaisons" connect universities communities. Emerging from the field social capital, 'social...

The STEM climate is overall less welcoming for queer students, and especially harrowing transgender, nonbinary, students with additional gender non-conforming identities (TNBGNC+). Professional societies provide a range of resources that help them persist in STEM, though qualitative research shows such geared toward trans may offer professional academic prioritize identity management. objective our to identify, among whether there are differences between how TNBGNC+ majoritized access...

It is known that Florida school employees as Migrant Advocates facilitate or broker MSF health care access for migrant and seasonal farmworker (MSF) families, but it not how states without a Education Program might also access. To address this, present study examines the role of in brokering to immigrant Mexican Indigenous Guatemalan families Connecticut. Informed by prior work, interviews (n = 12) with parents elementary showed (1) vast array non-Migrant Advocate employees, mostly Latinx...

The Environment Corps (E-Corps) program emerged out of our goal to reciprocally serve undergraduate students and communities as they engage with faculty across E-Corps courses in collaborative environmental sustainability pursuits. Currently, the three focus on brownfields, stormwater, climate. is a unique two semester sequence coursework anchored high leverage practices (HLPs) that we have collaboratively developed worked refine over last several years. In this article, describe program,...

Background: Environmental sustainability-focused service learning programs can aid communities in addressing environmental problems and provide students with hands-on training. Understanding the implementation of such inform research application. Purpose: We investigate an program at a large New England public university. Our inquiry sought to better understand epistemic by question: What conditions, including contextual factors resources (funding, university context) people (i.e. faculty,...

I interrogate how consequential representations of student characteristics are fashioned by analyzing identification, recording, and reporting parent language, race, ethnicity in K-12 school registration, records, state reporting. In the Florida Heartland, analysis ethnographic observations, electronic a language inventory (survey), interviews, official data show that information for some students parents (especially indigenous Mexicans) collected during enrollment not recorded accurately...

High Leverage Practices (HLPs), as a core set of teaching practices, represent important instructional priorities and provide guidance for students' engagement in practice-based instruction. The goals this research were to 1) understand how an epistemic community (the people designing leading courses programs) viewed the HLP creation process, 2) processes through which actually engaged refinement HLPS, 3) identify present HLPs created. Data collected across 2019-2020 academic year included...