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Work in Progress: Culture of Productivity—Multipositional Impacts on STEM Graduate Students

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Conference

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Baltimore , Maryland

Publication Date

June 25, 2023

Start Date

June 25, 2023

End Date

June 28, 2023

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 11

Tagged Divisions

Equity and Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY)

Tagged Topic

Diversity

Page Count

9

DOI

10.18260/1-2--44198

Permanent URL

https://strategy.asee.org/44198

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128

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D. C. Beardmore University of Colorado, Boulder Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-9900-9571

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D. C. Beardmore recently earned their Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder (Summer 2023). They are currently the Engineering GoldShirt Program Manager for the Broadening Opportunities through Leadership and Diversity (BOLD) center at the University of Colorado Boulder. Their current and historical positionality statements can be found at dcbeardmore.com.

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Angela R. Bielefeldt University of Colorado, Boulder

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Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) and Director for the Engineering Plus program. She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate

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Abstract

Those who do not conform to the ideology of the “ideal” normative human body/mind are often excluded from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Lacking the diversity in experience and perspectives that diverse students, staff, and faculty bring to STEM impedes our society’s progress to a better world. The purpose of this work-in-progress (WIP) paper is to explore the experiences of dis/abled, queer, AFAB STEM graduate students navigating a culture of productivity in their educational journey. This WIP paper offers a narrow preview of the findings in a larger exploratory study. This paper begins to untangle some of the intricacies in a short narrative excerpt through a neoliberal-critical, ableism-critical, and queer lens. This paper offers an invitation to the STEM community to collectively reflect on and engage in conversation regarding our cultural norms and assumptions.

Beardmore, D. C., & Bielefeldt, A. R. (2023, June), Work in Progress: Culture of Productivity—Multipositional Impacts on STEM Graduate Students Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44198

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