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Appendix E-9: American Physical Society Written Testimony
Appendix E-9: American Physical Society Written Testimony
Pages 188-194
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Further, the percentage of women that take AP physics roughly reflects the ratios seen in undergraduate degrees. Roughly the same percentage of females receives PhD's in physics.
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With employment data from the AIP overlaid onto Figure E-9-1, Figure E-9-3 indicates that assistant professors in physics are hired at rates at or above the production rate of PhDs. This is especially apparent when one considers that the data for professors should be moved to the left on the graph to indicate the population of PhDs that feed this crop of professors.
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Although women are hired at a rate consistent with their graduation rate, it is also clear that they remain underrepresented in physics. Minority women suffer from the combined factors of underrepresentation as women and as minorities.
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, women -- especially those living in the intersection of race and gender -- represent a growing source of untapped domestic talent to help meet the nation's STEM needs. Moreover, although policies aimed at increasing women of color should be based on empirical research on women of color pursuing STEM educations, there is a documented paucity of such work.
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COM conducts site visits and offers a minority scholarship for undergraduate physics majors. The APS is also beginning a major effort to build sustainable bridge programs throughout the country that will help improve the pipeline of minority undergraduates into graduate school and beyond.
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As indicated in the recent PCAST report, "Engage to Excel," a significant loss of talent for this country is dismissed from studying physics by their first course in the subject as an undergraduate. Physics is particularly egregious at this boundary, and education research has demonstrated techniques that have documented success at lowering the drop/fail/withdraw rates particularly for women and minorities using enhanced pedagogical techniques.
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SEEKING SOLUTIONS effort. Addressing this issue also directly addresses the transition between high school and university where we lose a significant amount of underrepresented students.
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