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Through the & Engineering Capacity and with the support of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation officer's grant awarded in February 2005, AAAS has offered STEM human resource development consulting (on a cost-sharing basis). We have addressed key umbrella organizations and visited institutions of higher education to engage faculty and administrators in ways of examining their programs, outcomes, and overall capacity to recruit, enroll, and support STEM students.
AAAS Capacity Center leadership and consultants have facilitated the following conversations under the "engagement" banner:
- October 2006
Published Forum/Commentary on "The New Backlash on Campus," College and University Journal, vol. 81, pp. 65-68 (Chubin and Malcom) [PDF]
- February 2008
Organizer and Co-Moderator, "Improving the Climate for Your Science/Engineering Workforce," Career Workshop, AAAS Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (Chubin) [PPT]
- February 2008
Panelist, Promoting Diversity in Higher Education and Workforce STEM, Diversity & Innovation Caucus, Stakeholders' Listening Meeting, Washington, DC (Chubin) [PPT]
- March 2008
Presenter, "Standing Our Ground I and II," COSEPUP Committee on Underrepresented Groups and the Expansion of the Science and Engineering Workforce Pipeline, National Academies, Washington, DC (Chubin)
The following resources directly relate to topics under the “engagement” banner, more specifically, “Law, Policy and Practice.” Like the Research Catalogue, these issues are addressed by the AAAS Capacity Center and are updated periodically.
Bias Literacy
Bias Literacy: A Review of Concepts in Research on Discrimination (February 2008) offers a quick digest of the evidence for discrimination, especially with reference to women in science and engineering. It explains common terminology and lists relevant legislation and national policy initiatives. The twenty-five-page paper summarizes: tradition versus bias; conscious versus unconscious discrimination; overt versus covert discrimination; personal versus institutional bias; gender schema theory; accumulated advantage; stereotype threat; implicit bias theory; glass ceiling; mommy track; occupational segregation; statistical profiling; climate study; the value of diversity in learning. A short section lists some national and international measures of discrimination against women and benchmarking efforts. There is a list of major organizations working for diversity, with links. The paper is a short tour for people new to the topic. Many of the concepts are more fully described in the recent national report Beyond Bias and Barriers (2007), which inspired this “literacy” effort.
Authored by Ruta Sevo and Daryl Chubin, the paper may be copied and distributed with attribution.
Download: Bias Literacy Paper [PDF]
Title IX
A Title IX Timeline: The Enforcement of Title IX in Science and Engineering Education is a ten-page chronology of the policy movement to use Title IX compliance reviews to put pressure on universities to improve on the low numbers of women in science and engineering and to address biases in institutional policies and practices that contribute to the discouragement or exclusion of women. It lists documents that pave the intellectual course from 2000 to now, with links. Items recommended for quick study are marked.
Authored by Ruta Sevo, the timeline (HTML, PDF) may be copied and distributed with attribution.
Visit: momox.org
U.S. Education Department to Probe Program for Black Men on 16 CUNY Campuses
The U.S. Department of Education has opened investigations at 16 campuses of the City University of New York to determine whether a program to improve the enrollment and graduation rates of black men violates federal civil-rights law. In April 2006, the New York Civil Rights Coalition filed a federal complaint with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights about CUNY's proposed "Black Male Initiative," which the civil-rights group charged would offer "remedial and differential treatment" to students based on race and gender. The group argued that such a segregated pedagogy violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The Office for Civil Rights received a second complaint from the same group, in June 2006, charging discrimination in the hiring of staff members for the program.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education, News Blog, February 4, 2008
Visit: The Chronicle website to view the article.
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