Structure and belonging: Pathways to success for underrepresented minority and women PhD students in STEM fields.

ABSTRACT: The advancement of underrepresented minority and women PhD students to elite postdoctoral and faculty positions in the STEM fields continues to lag that of majority males, despite decades of efforts to mitigate bias and increase opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds. In 2015, the National Science Foundation Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NSF AGEP) California Alliance (Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, UCLA) conducted a wide-ranging survey of graduate students across the mathematical, physical, engineering, and computer sciences in order to identify levers to improve the success of PhD students, and, in time, improve diversity in STEM leadership positions, especially the professoriate. The survey data were interpreted via path analysis, a method that identif

SUBMITTER: Fisher AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6326412 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature