Postdocs as Key to Faculty Diversity: A Structured and Collaborative Approach for Research Universities.

ABSTRACT: Over the past 50 years the diversity of higher education faculty in the mathematical, physical, computer, and engineering sciences (MPCES) has advanced very little at 4-year universities in the United States. This is despite laws and policies such as affirmative action, interventions by universities, and enormous financial investment by federal agencies to diversify science, technology, mathematics, and engineering (STEM) career pathways into academia. Data comparing the fraction of underrepresented minority (URM) postdoctoral scholars to the fraction of faculty at these institutions offer a straightforward empirical explanation for this state of affairs. URM postdoc appointments lag significantly behind progress in terms of both undergraduate and Ph.D.-level STEM student populations. Inde

SUBMITTER: Patt C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9083322 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature