This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $670,106 to examine faculty expectations and beliefs around the assimilation of racially marginalized and minoritized students in academic STEM research labs. The project aims to collect data from nearly 2,000 faculty across the U.S. to understand the cognitive, behavioral, and motivational manifestations of faculty's assimilation expectations for undergraduate research assistants, develop a measure to assess these faculty beliefs, and evaluate the prevalence and influence of these beliefs on diversity and research lab outcomes. The work will employ mixed methods including qualitative interviews, psychometric analyses, and quantitative multilevel analyses. The goal is to advance theoretical and methodological tools for understanding and addressing faculty assimilation expectations to recruit and retain a diverse scientific workforce. Subawards are planned under this grant.
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