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Hybrid Vigor: Strengthening the Science and Engineering Workforces with Women and Minorities

Learn about the critical components in creating a strong workforce, the importance of valuing differences, and the role of community-based approaches in diversifying the science and engineering fields. Explore the changing U.S. demographics and the gap between the school-age population and the STEM workforce. Discover the principles of science through Native American perspectives and the requirements for successful community-based approaches. Education is key to improving generations.

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Hybrid Vigor: Strengthening the Science and Engineering Workforces with Women and Minorities

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  1. Hybrid Vigor: Strengthening the Science and Engineering Workforces with Women and Minorities Anne C Petersen, PhD W K Kellogg Foundation Presentation at the Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce: Women, Underrepresented Minorities, and Their S&E Careers Harvard University, January 14, 2005

  2. “Education offers the best opportunity for truly improving one generation over another.” W. K. Kellogg

  3. 3 Critical Components in Creating a Strong Workforce • The importance of valuing difference • The need to start early in reaching all of our youth • The role of community-based approaches

  4. Diversity means • Increasing “the diversity of imagination, methods, and experience available to the scientific workforce so it can find new and more powerful ways to address critical environmental, health, and energy problems.” Native Science, Tapestry Institute, 2004

  5. U.S. demographics are changing Hispanics will contribute the greatest change in the U.S. population. It is projected that they will be 44% of the population growth from 2000 to 2020, and 62% from 2020 to 2050. (U.S. Bureau of Census)

  6. Gap Between School-age Population and STEM Workforce • About 1/3 of the school-age population are underrepresented minorities, but only 11% of the working population in STEM. • Women are ½ of school-age population, but only ¼ of STEM workforce.

  7. Minority = Black/African American, Hispanic, and American Indian • Source: Joan Burrelli, NSF, based on 1999 Common Core of Data, U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES); NCES, 1998 IPEDS Fall Enrollment Survey; UCLA Higher Education Research Institute,1998 American Freshman Survey (estimate); and NCES, 1998 IPEDS Completions Survey

  8. Cradleboard’s CD-ROM Science: Through Native American Eyes • Principles of sound • Principles of friction • The science found in the construction of Native American lodges

  9. “ A lot of the work we’ve done is to change people’s perceptions of the potential of the students.” ---Robin Casselman at UC Irvine and member of Santa Ana Partnership

  10. Requirements for Successful Community-based Approaches • Systemic community-driven change. • Development of community leadership. • A commitment to diversity at all levels of the educational/career pipeline – not just the junior levels. • Resources needed for sustained efforts.

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