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Invisible Student Scientists

Autor Robert Leslie Fisher
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 oct 2015
In this book, Robert Leslie Fisher contends that thanks to misguided university and government policies, we have created a science elite that does not represent the demographics of the nation. We need to recruit more native-born women and underrepresented minorities into graduate programs in order to maintain our nation's prosperity and military strength. Fisher draws on sample data from 1300 male and female respondents from White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian students. He shows how the student culture of graduate schools in science and engineering sees women, Black, and Hispanic students as outsiders and deprives these budding scientists and research engineers of the collaborators they need to succeed in their careers. Fisher argues that we must inspire female, Black, and Hispanic graduate students to believe they can succeed in their careers by (1) changing the student culture in graduate schools' science and engineering programs to be more inclusive, (2) removing burdensome undergraduate educational duties from graduate students so that they can concentrate on mastering the difficult subject matter of their disciplines, and (3) hiring more women and under-represented minorities as faculty to serve as role models.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780761866169
ISBN-10: 0761866167
Pagini: 166
Ilustrații: 115 tables
Dimensiuni: 151 x 229 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield

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Cuprins

List of Tables Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Theoretical Orientation and Study Plan Chapter Two: Cosseted White Males Revisited Chapter Three: Women Graduate Students: Some Are More Equal Than Others Chapter Four: Are (White) Men Better Professors and Scientists? Chapter Five: Conclusions and Policy Implications Bibliography Index

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Fisher asserts that more native-born women and underrepresented minorities need to obtain advanced degrees in the United States. Drawing on rich data from a sample of approximately 1,300 graduate students, Fisher shows how misguided graduate school policies and practices have discouraged women and minorities from seeking degrees in the sciences.