Blosser, E. G., & Pennathur, A., & Pennathur, P., & Bowman, N. A. (2023, June),  How Engineering Faculty, Staff and Administrators Enact and Experience Diversity Programs.  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--42284

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  Blosser, E. G., \& Pennathur, A., \& Pennathur, P., \& Bowman, N. A. (2023, June), \emph{ How Engineering Faculty, Staff and Administrators Enact and Experience Diversity Programs.}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--42284

Emily  Gwen Blosser, Arunkumar Pennathur, Priyadarshini Pennathur, and Nicholas A Bowman.  " How Engineering Faculty, Staff and Administrators Enact and Experience Diversity Programs.".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/42284 Internet.  13 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_42284}
  Emily  Gwen Blosser, Arunkumar Pennathur, Priyadarshini Pennathur, and Nicholas A Bowman.
  " How Engineering Faculty, Staff and Administrators Enact and Experience Diversity Programs.".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/42284 Internet.  13 May, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Women and men of color and white women remain severely underrepresented in engineering education, despite the myriad of programs and initiatives that have been implemented to increase their participation. While much research has investigated the impacts of diversity programs on minoritized groups in engineering, less has been done to study how engineering faculty, staff and administrators tasked with implementing and enacting diversity policies and programs discuss their roles and efforts in these programs.

 Our analysis looks at how policies and practices unfold around diversity work. Using one primarily white flagship university we call ‘Middle University’ as a case study, we use interview data with faculty, staff and administrators. Drawing on literature from scholars that conceptualize diversity work as a dynamic and contested process in higher education, we consider how diversity work is implemented and carried out in this college of engineering. Our results show that interviewees describe the following four themes: (1.) Diversity work lacks resources (2.)  Diversity work is not tightly coordinated or organized (3.) Diversity work is not always consistently rewarded by the institution (4.) Diversity outcomes are rarely tracked systematically. In summary, our study sheds light on the ways engineering education institutions may express their commitment to diversity in theory, but face difficulties carrying it out in practice.  

This work is funded by NSF Grant # 2042363:Identifying Catalysts for Increasing Student Diversity in Engineering in a Predominantly White Institution

AU  - Emily  Gwen Blosser
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