ADVANCING RACIAL EQUITY FOR BLACK STUDENTS IN POSTSECONDARY STEM.

Black epiSTEMologies promotes racial equity for All Black people by advancing research that disrupts anti-Black norms, values, beliefs, and practices in STEM.

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Outcomes

A new $8.8 million, five-year National Science Foundation research projecT.

Black epiSTEMologies is a multi-institutional collaborative research project seeking to develop theories, research methods and tools (e.g., qualitative protocols, quantitative instruments), and forms of knowledge that expand the field of STEM education’s conceptual understandings of and implications for racial equity in STEM for Black students.

Black epiSTEMologies is funded by the National Science Foundation (EHR Racial Equity) and encompasses the following research awards:
UIC & TSU: 2243109, GSU: 2140902, American: 2140903, UT: 2140904, NC A&T: 2140905.

Research

an exploratory sequential mixed methods project

PHASE 01. Mosaic Ethnography

Gather and analyze contextual, demographic, institutional, and focus group data on Black students’ perspectives of Blackness in STEM from four-year institutions.

PHASE 03. Survey Implementation

Launch survey across the nation to establish a data repository.

PHASE 02. Survey Development

Develop and validate a survey that examines critical, nuanced perspectives of Blackness in STEM.

PHASE 04. ONGOING Dissemination

Generate various products for dissemination to academic, education, and general audiences.

Institutional Partners

A MULTI-INSTITUTIONAl COLLABORATION.

Black epiSTEMologies is a research collaborative representing one project that is housed among six institutions located across the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Southeast, and Southwest regions of the United States.

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LEADERSHIP TEAM

Dr. Terrell R. Morton

Lead PI, University of Illinois at Chicago
Dr. Tia C. Madkins

PI, The University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Paula Groves Price

PI, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Dr. Shari Earnest Watkins

PI, American University
Dr. Nickolaus Alexander Ortiz

PI, Georgia State University
Dr. Brian McGowan

Co-PI, American University
Dr. Andrea L. Tyler

Co-PI, Tennessee State University
Dr. Ashley N. Woodson

Qualitative Methodology Coach, Wayne State University
Dr. Yasmiyn Irizarry

Co-PI & Quant Methods Lead, The University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Jennifer D. Adams

Research and Evaluation Consultant
Postdoctoral Researchers

Cross-Institutional
Graduate Students

Cross-Institutional
Undergraduate Students

Cross-Institutional