A Negative Case Analysis: Support for Students of Color and Women in STEM Graduate Programs

• In Event: Studies of Minority and Underrepresented Graduate Students

Abstract

To strengthen developing theory about inclusive graduate education, we undertook a negative case analysis of 29 students’ narratives about faculty support in STEM doctoral programs. Guided by structuration and intersectionality theories, we found parallel spectra of interactions (individual faculty-student interactions and institutional interactions) that individually and interactively shaped the support that women and students of color perceived.

Authors

• Theresa E Hernandez, University of Southern California

• Julie Renee Posselt, University of Southern California