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LT O'Brien, HL Bart, DM Garcia - Social Psychology of Education, 2020 - Springer

Why are there so few ethnic minorities in ecology and evolutionary biology? Challenges to inclusion and the role of sense of belonging.

Broadening participation in STEM

Bart, Garcia, O'Brien

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African Americans and other ethnic minorities are severely underrepresented in both graduate education and among the professoriate in ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB). In the present research, we take a social psychological approach to studying inclusion by examining interrelationships among challenges to inclusion, the sense of belonging, and interest in pursuing graduate education in EEB. We conducted a survey of African American (N= 360), Latino/a/Hispanic (N= 313), White (N= 709), and Asian/Asian American (N= 524) …

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