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Appendix E-17: American Sociological Association Written Testimony
Appendix E-17: American Sociological Association Written Testimony
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As the national organization for sociologists, the ASA, through its Executive Office in Washington, DC, provides a wide range of services to its members, and promotes the vitality, visibility, and diversity of the discipline. Support Structure ASA has been successful at improving the participation, visibility, and status of underrepresented minorities and women in the discipline by focused efforts to create an organizational support structure that includes appointed status committees, dedicated personnel, and innovative programs.
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MOST emphasized increased rigor in scientific methods, direct research experiences, and the integration of content on race, ethnicity, class, and gender in all courses and aspects of the curriculum; the responsibility of all faculty members in a department to mentor all students; a departmental climate sensitive to diversity; and increasing the number of undergraduates of color going to graduate school. The outcomes of this program were overwhelmingly positive, as the course offerings including diversity content doubled and the percent of minority students who graduated increased from 18 to 33 percent.
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Findings from Recent National Science Foundation-Funded Research about MFP ASA received an NSF research grant to compare the past 13 years of MFP PhDs to a random sample of sociology PhD recipients from the same period. We hypothesized that MFP leveled the playing field and that Fellows would be equally successful at securing the "ideal" academic career as measured by employment at research-extensive schools, number of peer reviewed journal articles (including in "top" journals)
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She has also coordinated the Social and Political Sciences Cluster, was a senior analyst in the Division of Science Resources Statistics, and Program Officer in the Methodology, Measurement and Statistics program, all at NSF. Despite the distinguished records of many MFP alumna of color, our recent study of MFP Fellows finds that, in general, alumna are not doing as well as alumni in terms of achieving that "ideal" academic career.
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ASA has formed a collaborative research network of former MFP scholars to supplement the quantitative findings, with in-depth micro-level data on motivations, perceptions, and experiences of individual minority graduate students and early career faculty to explore gender differences in the roles of choice and social exclusion in minorities' pursuit of "ideal" versus other career trajectories. As such, ASA is moving to continue MFP support into Fellows' early post-PhD careers to help enhance grant and publication productivity.
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