Women, Community Colleges, and STEM Careers

Wang, Xueli; Wickersham, Kelly

doi:10.1002/ir.20276

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“…Increasing community college research that can identify access issues and disaggregate student data by layers of demographic characteristics is a step towards brainstorming how community colleges can provide solutions for broadening STEM participation ( Hagedorn and Purnamasari, 2012 ). Wang and Wickersham (2018) urge for the use of innovative analytical approaches to further explore the STEM pathways of women through the STEM pathway from two-year to four-year institutions. Metcalf (2016) recommends using critical mixed-methods approaches in revealing richer insights about the importance of reviewing the intersections of demographic identities of underrepresented and historically excluded groups in STEM fields.…”

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Family Helps Transform the STEM Pathways of Community College Women of Color STEM Majors

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Foriest,

Walker

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Family Helps Transform the STEM Pathways of Community College Women of Color STEM Majors

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“…In our work, we conceptualize equity in STEM as encompassing issues of access and representation, as well as ongoing support for students who have been historically underrepresented and minoritized in STEM along multiple dimensions of their identities, including gender and race. Relevant to our inquiry, community colleges serve as a key access point for students from groups that are currently underrepresented in STEM, such as women, particularly women from minoritized racial/ethnic groups (Wang & Wickersham, 2019). STEM students who transfer from community colleges to 4‐year institutions (i.e., upward transfer students) tend to be more diverse in a number of key ways (e.g., race and ethnicity), relative to students who begin their postsecondary STEM degree at 4‐year institutions (Lyon & Denner, 2017).…”

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Diversifying STEM pathways: A look into upward transfer students’ sense of belonging in computing

Blaney

Barrett

Choi

2022

New Drctns Community Coll

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This article discusses transfer pathways to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) degrees and highlights ways in which existing literature on equity in STEM fails to represent transfer student experiences, limiting opportunities to support transfer students and diversify STEM programs. More specifically, we synthesize findings across research studiesfocusing closely on recent studies of disparities in students' sense of belonging in computing-to make a case that existing research on equity in computing is not generalizable to students following upward transfer pathways to their computing degree. Implications for centering upward transfer students' experiences in future research and practice are discussed.

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“…College sector may matter as well. For example, scholars have studied students' pathways through community colleges toward STEM degrees (Wang & Wickersham, 2019); some studies have focused in particular on women of color (Reyes, 2011). In development of this study on undergraduate women in STEM to be received by an institutional research audience, we drew on publicly available and frequently utilized data on four-year colleges and universities.…”

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Warming the Chill: Insights for Institutions and Researchers to Keep Women in STEM

Saras¹

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting

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Despite women's gains in higher education degree achievement in recent years, women still lag behind their male peers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) degree persistence and completion (DiPrete & Buchmann, 2013;Perez-Felkner, 2019). Women's precollege experiences and background characteristics shape their entry into STEM degrees; these include mathematics ability beliefs, STEM course-taking patterns in high school, and quality of precollege instruction (Hill, Corbett, & St Rose, 2010;Ma, 2011;Perez-Felkner, Nix, & Thomas, 2017). Importantly, however, student characteristics and precollege experiences do not fully explain the perception of a gendered chilly climate on campus (Hurtado et al., 2011;Morris & Daniel, 2008). BackgroundPostsecondary institutional climates matter as well to women's STEM degree achievement. Sandler (1982, 1984) assert that chilly climates in traditionally masculine fields are fostered and perpetuated by students, faculty, and staff, as women experience isolation, microaggressions, and discrimination from male peers and faculty. Since Hall and Sandler developed the concept of "chilly climates" for women in STEM, practitioners and researchers alike have observed women experience differential treatment that discourages their learning and persistence in those fields. However, few studies have attempted to quantitatively evaluate the institutional features of chilly climates. To address this gap, we used nationally representative Integrated Postsecondary Data System (IPEDS) data from 2007-2009 to assess STEM degree outcomes by institution. The most recent IPEDS reporting cycle to include a battery of questions

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Women, Community Colleges, and STEM Careers

Abstract: Two‐year colleges are an increasingly used but understudied pathway to STEM degrees for women from historically underserved backgrounds. This chapter discusses the community college promise in solving the gender gap in STEM attainment, as well as related research findings and directions.

Cited by 12 publications

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Family Helps Transform the STEM Pathways of Community College Women of Color STEM Majors

Family Helps Transform the STEM Pathways of Community College Women of Color STEM Majors

Diversifying STEM pathways: A look into upward transfer students’ sense of belonging in computing

Warming the Chill: Insights for Institutions and Researchers to Keep Women in STEM

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