Invisible Student Scientists
How Graduate School Science and Engineering Programs Shortchange Black, Hispanic, and Women Students
In this book, Robert Leslie Fisher contends that thanks to misguided university and government policies, we have created a science elite that does not represent the demographics of the nation. We need to recruit more native-born women and underrepresented minorities into graduate programs in order to maintain our nation's prosperity and military strength. Fisher draws on sample data from 1300 male and female respondents from White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian students. He shows how the student culture of graduate schools in science and engineering sees women, Black, and Hispanic students as outsiders and deprives these budding scientists and r…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7618-6258-1
- EAN: 9780761862581
- Produktnummer: 15454916
- Verlag: University Press Of America
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.3 cm 405 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 405
Über den Autor
Robert Leslie Fisher was educated in New York City. He attended Stuyvesant High School, a special school for science-oriented students, and has degrees in sociology from City College of New York (B.A. cum laude), and Columbia University (M. Phil.). Prior to retiring in 2003, Fisher had a varied career as a criminal justice planner, research contracts officer, and program evaluator in New York State government. He is now an author and director of a nonprofit consulting organization in the Capital District of New York. Fisher is the author of three previous nonfiction books about the gender gap in science, all published by University Press of America, and has contributed articles on medical research. He also published Vanilla Republic, a mystery novel.
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