Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - Resources to Get Started

For engineering & sciences

Mission of the project

Collect references and resources into one place to help faculty:

in the classroom

in their research laboratories

in their programs

in their service


Responses to 10 Common Criticisms of Anti-Racism Action in STEM

Roberson, M. L. (2020). On supporting early-career Black scholars. Nat Hum Behav, 4(8), 773. doi:10.1038/s41562-020-0926-6

Classroom

Long, L.L., III (2020), Toward an antiracist engineering classroom for 2020 and beyond: A starter kit. J Eng Educ. doi:10.1002/jee.20363

McChesney, K. Y. (2015). Teaching Diversity. SAGE Open, 5(4). doi:10.1177/2158244015611712

Wagner, A. E. (2005). Unsettling the academy: working through the challenges of anti‐racist pedagogy. Race Ethnicity and Education, 8(3), 261-275. doi:10.1080/13613320500174333

Kishimoto, K. (2016). Anti-racist pedagogy: from faculty’s self-reflection to organizing within and beyond the classroom. Race Ethnicity and Education, 21(4), 540-554. doi:10.1080/13613324.2016.1248824

Ong, M., Smith, J. M., & Ko, L. T. (2018). Counterspaces for women of color in STEM higher education: Marginal and central spaces for persistence and success. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 55(2), 206-245. doi:10.1002/tea.21417

Onyeador, C. N., Gilmartin, S. K., Sheppard, S., Trujillo, G., & Muller, C. B. (2018). Adding Diversity and Culture to the Engineer’s Toolkit: Evaluating a Unique Course Option for Engineering Students. Paper presented at the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT.

Research laboratories & Mentoring

Bloodhart, B., Balgopal, M. M., Casper, A. M. A., Sample McMeeking, L. B., & Fischer, E. V. (2020). Outperforming yet undervalued: Undergraduate women in STEM. PLoS One, 15(6), e0234685.

Chaudhary, V. B., & Berhe, A. A. (2020). Ten simple rules for building an antiracist lab. PLoS Comput Biol, 16(10), e1008210.

W. H. Robinson, E. O. McGee, L. C. Bentley, S. L. Houston and P. K. Botchway, "Addressing Negative Racial and Gendered Experiences That Discourage Academic Careers in Engineering," in Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 29-39, Mar.-Apr. 2016, doi: 10.1109/MCSE.2016.38.

Hund, A. K., Churchill, A. C., Faist, A. M., Havrilla, C. A., Love Stowell, S. M., McCreery, H. F., . . . Scordato, E. S. C. (2018). Transforming mentorship in STEM by training scientists to be better leaders. Ecol Evol, 8(20), 9962-9974. doi:10.1002/ece3.4527

Programmatic Efforts

Fávero, B., Vilas, C., Moran, S., & Eniola-Adefeso, O. (2018). The Power of Peer Mentoring in Enabling a Diverse and Inclusive Environment in a Chemical Engineering Graduate Program. Chemical Engineering Education, 52(2), 78-88.

Stolle-McAllister, K., Sto Domingo, M. R., & Carrillo, A. (2011). The Meyerhoff Way: How the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program Helps Black Students Succeed in the Sciences. J Sci Educ Technol, 20(1), 5-16. doi:10.1007/s10956-010-9228-5

Lane, T. B. (2016). Beyond Academic and Social Integration: Understanding the Impact of a STEM Enrichment Program on the Retention and Degree Attainment of Underrepresented Students. CBE Life Sci Educ, 15(3). doi:10.1187/cbe.16-01-0070

Delaine, D. A., Tull, R., Sigamoney, R., & Williams, D. N. (2016). Global Diversity and Inclusion in Engineering Education: Developing Platforms toward Global Alignment. International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP), 6(1). doi:10.3991/ijep.v6i1.5372


Education & Service

Platt, M. O. (2020). We exist. We are your peers. Nature Reviews Materials. doi:10.1038/s41578-020-00248-x

Chesler, N.C. A How-To Guide for Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Biomedical Engineering. Ann Biomed Eng 47, 1167–1170 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-019-02223-2

Luedke, C. L. (2017). Person First, Student Second: Staff and Administrators of Color Supporting Students of Color Authentically in Higher Education. Journal of College Student Development, 58(1), 37-52. doi:10.1353/csd.2017.0002

Trix, F., & Psenka, C. (2003). Exploring the color of glass: letters of recommendation for female and male medical faculty. Discourse & Society, 14(2), 191-220. Summary from U Arizona.

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Sora Kim - University of California, Merced: https://aaberhe.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/avoiding-racial-bias-in-reference-writing.pdf

Chesler, N. C., Barabino, G., Bhatia, S. N., & Richards-Kortum, R. (2010). The pipeline still leaks and more than you think: a status report on gender diversity in biomedical engineering. Ann Biomed Eng, 38(5), 1928-1935. doi:10.1007/s10439-010-9958-9


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