scholarly journals Using Funds of Knowledge to Address Diversity Issues in STEM

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-339
Author(s):  
Wendy Jackeline Torres ◽  
Jacqueline M. Gilberto ◽  
Margaret E. Beier
Keyword(s):  
Funds Of Knowledge ◽  
Underrepresented Minorities ◽  
Cultural Milieu ◽  
Daily Experiences ◽  
Diversity Issues ◽  
Diversity In Stem ◽  
Minorities In Stem

Miner et al. (2018) call for industrial and organizational (I-O) psychologists to examine the societal structures that influence women's underrepresentation in STEM. Here we extend their ideas and suggest that diversity in STEM would benefit from considering how people develop within the context of their environment. Educational researchers refer to the knowledge people develop through daily experiences with their cultural milieu as funds of knowledge. Funds of knowledge essentially represent a person's expertise, and educational researchers have recognized that designing environments that draw from expertise facilitates success for students, including women and underrepresented minorities in STEM.

scholarly journals Initiatives to financially, academically, and socially support underrepresented minorities in STEM disciplines

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anitha Sarah Subburaj ◽  
Pamela Lockwood-Cooke ◽  
Emily Hunt ◽  
Vinitha Hannah Subburaj
Keyword(s):  
Underrepresented Minorities ◽  
Stem Disciplines ◽  
Minorities In Stem

scholarly journals Hashtag #ThinkBigDiversity: Social Media Hacking Activities as Hybridized Mentoring Mechanisms for Underrepresented Minorities in STEM

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renetta Tull ◽  
Autumn Reed ◽  
Pamela Felder ◽  
Shawnisha Hester ◽  
Denise Williams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Underrepresented Minorities ◽  
Minorities In Stem

scholarly journals From HHMI: Doubling Down on Diversity

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. fe6 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Asai ◽  
Cynthia Bauerle
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Underrepresented Minorities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Postsecondary Science ◽  
National Effort ◽  
Minorities In Stem

In spite of modest gains in the past four decades, the United States has not been able to substantially improve on the pervasive underrepresentation of minorities in postsecondary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) pathways. We suggest a way to guide a national effort to double the persistence of underrepresented minorities in STEM in the next decade.

A Three-Pillar Approach to Preparing Tomorrow's STEM Professionals

2019 ◽  
pp. 64-119
Keyword(s):  
Minority Students ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Underrepresented Minorities ◽  
Stem Fields ◽  
Stem Careers ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Minorities In Stem

STEM professionals need specific knowledge, abilities, and general ways of working to be successful. In this chapter, the authors identify a three-pillar approach for preparing future STEM workers including 1) knowledge of STEM careers and professionals, 2) abilities to work in the STEM fields, and 3) ways of working as STEM professionals. Additionally, the individual components and activities of Project Engage that address each pillar are detailed. Finally, this chapter also presents the results and implications discovered through survey research designed to ascertain the participants' opinions of the project activities and the impact of the activities on retention in STEM fields and on participants' desires to continue into STEM careers. The survey results uncover a trend of more positive responses of minority students towards project activities designed to prepare future STEM professionals. This trend calls for future, more in-depth examinations on the project activities and similar ones as a means to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in STEM professions.

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