Latino engineering faculty in the United States

Arellano, Gerardo N.; Jaime-Acuña, Oscar; Graeve, Olivia A.; Madsen, Lynnette D.

doi:10.1557/mrs.2018.23

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“…According to the 2018 Engineering by the numbers report from the American Society for Engineering Education, approximately 10.2% of Bachelor’s degrees, 3.8% of Master’s degrees and 2.6% of Doctoral degrees in engineering fields are awarded to Latinx students 2 . Furthermore, as of 2016, only 587 3 of 27,412 2 tenured or tenure-track engineering faculty are Latinx in the USA, out of which only 48 were born in the USA 3 .…”

Section: Underrepresentation In Stemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building a virtual community to support and celebrate the success of Latinx scientists

Anseth

Porras

2020

Nat Rev Mater

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Section: Underrepresentation In Stemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building a virtual community to support and celebrate the success of Latinx scientists

Anseth

Porras

2020

Nat Rev Mater

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“…Take time to familiarize the department with where it stands with respect to various diversity metrics to remove any doubt that there is work to be done. In addition to internal data for your institution, national data resources enable benchmarking your institution and department to national statistics [12][13][14]. • Start with the academic leadership: Both the Chair and Dean are critical in running a successful search.…”

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A roadmap towards equitable hiring to diversify biomedical engineering faculty

Cosgriff‐Hernandez¹,

Aguado²,

Fleming³

et al. 2022

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Hiring practices in academia have critically limited the entry of individuals from historically excluded groups into our biomedical engineering faculty. Excluding diverse individuals has hindered our profession’s research impact and ability to equitably educate our students. With many departments committed to “do better,” we now need to embrace a new mindset and gain the skills necessary to rectify injustices in our faculty hiring processes. Here, we offer a faculty hiring roadmap that departments can leverage to eliminate many barriers of entry to members of historically excluded groups as faculty in biomedical engineering. We call on our colleagues to recognize the failings of our current hiring practices and adopt the guidelines provided here to diversify biomedical engineering departments so that we might collectively accelerate the impact, innovation, and power of our profession.

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“…For example, "Hispanic" is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as "a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race." The definition states that "Hispanics can be of any In 2016, 17.8% of the U.S. population was Hispanic/Latino but only 3.6% of engineering faculty nationally identified as Hispanic (Arellano et al, 2018). A deeper analysis of the national data showed that of the roughly 600 faculty members in this category, only 48 were born in the United States.…”

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Data-Driven Decision-Making

Barbu

McDonald

Brazil-Cruz

et al. 2021

Uprooting Bias in the Academy

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Addressing barriers to inclusion requires understanding the nature of the problem at the institutional level. Data collection and assessment are both crucial for this aim. In this chapter, we describe two important classes of data: (1) data on diversity that define the potential nature of the issues at stake and the need for change, and (2) data on assessing the usefulness of new programs, processes, and policies in creating a more diverse institution. Both sets of data are important for effective decision-making. At the same time, data analyses can be challenging because issues of equity and inclusion are complex and determining the basis of comparison or the “ideal” diversity target can be difficult. Nevertheless, data gathering and analysis are critical to assess progress and to provide a basis for both accountability and efficacy. Moreover, the ability to document that a problem indeed exists will help justify the need for change and, ideally, spur corrective action.

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Latino engineering faculty in the United States

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Building a virtual community to support and celebrate the success of Latinx scientists

Building a virtual community to support and celebrate the success of Latinx scientists

A roadmap towards equitable hiring to diversify biomedical engineering faculty

Data-Driven Decision-Making

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