Multicultural Awareness.

Resources for Multicultural STEM Education.

Multi-cultural Awareness Matters: More Engaged Communities, More Robust Knowledge – A resource compiled by Dr. Monica Torres
Latina Faculty Transcending Barriers: Peer Mentoring in a Hispanic-Serving Institution – In this article, Elizabeth T. Murakami and Anne-Marie Núñez conducted a research metasynthesis of publications by a group of Latina tenure-track faculty participating in a peer mentoring group, where they asked, “What peer mentoring strategies can Latina faculty employ to navigate academia?”
Exploring College Students’ Identification with an Organizational Identity for Serving Latinx Students at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and an Emerging HSI – In this article, Gina A. Garcia and Brighid Dwyer z conducted a study was to understand students’ organizational identification with an identity for serving Latinx students who attend an HSI or an emerging HSI.
The Impact of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), Emerging HSIs, and Non-HSIs on Latina/o Academic Self-Concept – In this article, Marcela Cuellar performed multiple regression analyses on data from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program that illuminate how background characteristics and student experiences at four-year HSIs, emerging HSIs, and non-HSIs influence Latinx academic self-concept.
Undergraduate Research Experiences: Mentoring, Awareness, and Perceptions—A Case Study at a Hispanic-Serving Institution – Laura Rodríguez Amaya, Tania Betancourt, Kristina Henry Collins, Orlando Hinojosa, and Carlos Corona explore the impact of student characteristics such as gender, classification, ethnicity, and first-generation status on UREs of STEM students through four specific constructs that current literature deems particularly important.
Factors Influencing Student Gains from Undergraduate Research Experiences at a Hispanic-Serving Institution – Heather Daniels, Sara E. Grineski, Timothy W. Collins, Danielle X. Morales, Osvaldo Morera, and Lourdes Echegoyen examine factors hypothetically relevant to underrepresented minority student gains from UREs at a Hispanic-serving institution, such as mentoring quality, family income, being Latinx, and caring for dependents.
Addressing STEM Culture and Climate to Increase Diversity in STEM Disciplines – In this blog post by Kimberly Griffin explains that in order to increase diversity in STEM, college and university faculty and administrators must engage and challenge elements of STEM culture and institutional climate.
Designing professional development for teachers of science and mathematics – By Loucks-Horsley, S., Stiles, K. E., Mundry, S., Love, N. & Hewson, P. W. (2010).Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. DOI: 10.4135/978145221910.