The Scholarship on Department and Graduate Program Racial Climates in STEMM Fields

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 3
  In Roundtable Session: Transforming STEM Systems Toward Equity

Abstract

This systematic review focuses on synthesizing the scholarship on departmental and graduate program climates to understand how scholars define and measure departmental racial climate for STEMM graduate programs. We explore how scholars examine the role of faculty mentorship in creating a racialized departmental climate, how faculty perceive the racial climate, and how graduate students perceive their department’s racial climate. We discuss the implications for studying departmental climate and racial diversity in STEMM. The review will serve as the foundation for interventions that increase graduate mentors’ skills for interacting with underrepresented mentees, increasing their success in biomedical fields

Authors

• Amanda Carrasco, University of California - Los Angeles

• Sylvia Hurtado, University of California - Los Angeles

• Bernard Reyes, University of California - Los Angeles