Broadening Participation for Greater Diversity

 National Science Foundation (NSF) Diversity Mission Statement

NSF's goal is to expand the numbers and diversity of individuals – women and men, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities – engaged in the science and engineering enterprise through increased participation of underrepresented groups and institutions in all NSF programs and activities. Here underrepresented minorities include African Americans, American Indians including Native Alaskans, Hispanics and Native Pacific Islanders. (For further details see the FY 2007 Budget Request to Congress).

Recruitment

• NSB Report: The Science and Engineering Workforce - Realizing America's Potential 03-69
• NSB Reports on Broadening Participation 04-41 and 04-72
• Race-Neutral Approaches to Diversity [student recruitment]
• Diversity in the Sciences [student recruitment and retention]
• Finding Qualified Minorities and Women [faculty recruitment]
• Faculty Recruitment Handbook (U MI) [faculty recruitment]

People with Disabilities

• Equitable employment practices [faculty recruitment and retention]

Minorities

• Sloan Manual [student recruitment]

Women

• Workshop report on Building Strong Chemistry Departments through Gender Equity [faculty recruitment and retention]

• Mentoring for Academic Careers in Engineering: Proceedings of the PAESMEM/Stanford School of Engineering Workshop [mentoring students, junior and recently-tenured faculty]
• Preparing Women and Minorities for the IT Workforce [retention of students]
• MentorNet [mentoring students through untenured faculty]
• Mentoring for Workforce Develop and Lifelong Productivity (PAESMEM 2005)

People with Disabilities

• Optimizing the Learning Environment for Students with Disabilities [including links to laws and other resources, broken down by disability type]
• Visual Impairment Links [employee retention, with links to other resources]

Women

• American Council on Education: Office of Women in Higher Education [reports and other information about retaining women]

Resources

• NSF Statistics: Science and Engineering Indicators
• Implicit Association Tests
• Diversity Myths and Realities
• 2007 Diversity Update
• Land of Plenty report: Diversity as America's Competitive Edge in Science, Engineering and Technology
• NSF-Funded Science Diversity Center
• National Academy of Engineering: Engineering Workforce Diversity

Women

• Tutorials for Change: Gender Schemas and Science Careers
• How to Choose a Woman-Friendly Engineering Faculty/School
• Physics Graduate Programs in the USA [female friendly graduate schools in physics]
• Gender Equity Indicators in the USA

Networks and Organizations

People with Disabilities

• National Federal for the Blind (NFB) Learning Resources [includes link to NSF supported National Center for blind Youth in Science]:

Minorities

• Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science
• National Society of Hispanic Physicists
• National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists & Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE)
• National Society of Black Physicists
• American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES)

Women

• WEPAN (Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network)
• WISE
• Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
• American Association of University Women (AAUW)

Academic Institutions

People with Disabilities

• National Technical Institute for the Deaf
• PEPNet (Postsecondary Education Programs Network) [addresses needs of individuals with deafness, including those who are deaf with co-occurring disabilities]
• Wheelchair accessibility [examples]

Minorities

• Department of Education Site
• Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Pacific Islander and Asian Institutions
• Tribal Colleges and Universities
• Hispanic Serving Institutions

Women

• Women's Colleges

DMR Activities and Programs Aimed at Broadening Participation

• Presentation of DMR's Strategy for Diversity (Fiscal Year 2008)

Minorities

• Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (NSF 05-615) [aimed at the pipeline]

This page is brought to you by the DMR Working Group on Diversity. For questions, comments or suggestions, contact the chair gtessema@nsf.gov).