Dear Colleagues,
Ira
Harkavy, Founding Director of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at
the University of Pennsylvania, and Vice Chair of the Committee on Equal
Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE) and Nancy Cantor, Chancellor
of Rutgers University-Camden and a Committee member, are pleased
to share CEOSE's most recent biennial report
(2013-2014) to Congress. CEOSE "advises the National
Science Foundation (NSF) on policies and programs to encourage full
participation by persons from underrepresented racial and ethnic minority
groups (African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans),
persons with disabilities, and women within all levels of America’s science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) enterprise.”
The report summary emphasizes that “NSF can be the catalyst to
help higher education take greater responsibility for a diverse STEM workforce,
transforming STEM at all levels and educating STEM domestic talent that fully
reflects and represents the US population. Indeed, this is the grand challenge
of broadening participation in STEM: to transform
the STEM enterprise at all levels to fully engage the nation’s human
capital — including women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with
disabilities.”
Building upon its 2011-2012 report that called for a bold new
initiative, the Committee laid out a framework for implementing the ‘grand
challenge’ of broadening participation in its 2013-2014 report:
(1) Develop
and implement an effective preK-20+ system of STEM pathways that significantly
increase participation of underrepresented individuals at every stage of
schooling and across all STEM fields. This recommendation, among other things,
calls for the transformation of “institutions of higher education into more
inclusive institutions with the will, know-how, and the capacity to help build these
effective pathways.”
(2) Provide
stable and sufficient direct support for individuals who represent the very
broadened participation that we ultimately seek.
(3) Support
the further development of a science of broadening participation grounded in
empirical research.
(4) Conduct
field experiments including assessment of interventions and outcomes to
understand and mitigate the barriers to broadening participation.
(5) Recognize
the field-specific nature of the broadening participation challenge by
embedding and engaging the bold initiative within and across all NSF
directorates and divisions.
Below are the links to the cover letter from the CEOSE committee,
the two-page summary of the report’s recommendations, and the full 2013-2014
CEOSE Report to Congress.
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