Panel/Workshop:

Concurrent Session

Paper Title:

Understanding The Tenure-Track Experiencesof Black Women In Science And Engineering

Date & Time:

06/10/03  09:45

Abstract:

While women and minorities have made some strides in joining the American professoriate during the last several decades, they continue to be sorely underrepresented among science and engineering faculties at research universities. To understand more about the tenure-track experiences of a particular group of underrepresented faculty—African American women in science and engineering—Dr. Cecilia Lucero recently conducted a qualitative study that explored the nuances of several Black women’s early career faculty socialization. This research focused particularly on communication between Black women and their colleagues, especially with regard to messages about job expectations--what it means to be a science and engineering professor. Dr. Lucero summarizes her research here. For the WEPAN conference, Dr. Lucero presents her findings and asks a diverse group of female science and engineering faculty to compare and contrast their own tenure-track experiences with those of the African American women whom she interviewed.

Index Terms ¾ Black women faculty, new faculty socialization.

Authors:

Cecilia Lucero , The National GEM Consortium
The National Consortium for Grad. Degrees , for Minorities in Engineering and Science , PO Box 537
Notre Dame , IN , 46556
lucero.5@nd.edu

DiOnetta Jones , The National GEM Consortium