Boosting Scientific Community Values: The Impact of Social Inclusion Interventions on Biomedical Instructors

• In Event: Faculty Experiences and Environments: A Deeper Understanding

Abstract

Gender and racial inequality plague the STEM professoriate (Casad et al., 2021). Interventions to foster inclusive learning environments by benefit faculty instructors in STEM (Main et al., 2020). Accordingly, we investigated the impact of a Social Inclusion Intervention (SII) on the scientific self-efficacy, identity, community values, and persistence intentions of a large and diverse sample of (n=116) biomedical college instructors in the US. The results indicated the SII group developed stronger scientific community values than the controls group and that the effect was strongest for instructors who had initially expressed low values. Given the importance of personal-professional values conflict in flight from academic STEM careers, the SII may support the future career satisfaction and choices of diverse STEM faculty.

Authors

• Zoey Du, Texas A&M University

• Rachelle M. Pedersen, Texas Tech University

• Holly Miller, Texas A&M University

• Hyewon Lee, University of California - Irvine

• Cristian Cervantes Aldana, University of California - San Francisco

• Nichole Broderick, Johns Hopkins University

• Jo Handelsman, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Natalia Maldonado, University of California - San Francisco

• Sarah Miller, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Megan Patterson, Texas A&M University

• Perla Sandoval, University of California - San Francisco

• Mica Estrada, University of California - San Francisco

• Paul R. Hernandez, Texas A&M University