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Byars-Winston, Angela; Leverett, Patrice; Benbow, Ross J.; Pfund, Christine; Thayer-Hart, Nancy; Branchaw, Janet – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2020
This case study investigated how mentors and mentees in biology experience and understand race and ethnicity in their research mentoring relationships. Semistructured interviews were conducted with mentors (n = 23) and mentees (n = 15) who had participated in an undergraduate biology summer research opportunity program at a large Midwestern…
Descriptors: Race, Ethnicity, Biology, Mentors
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Butz, Amanda R.; Spencer, Kimberly; Thayer-Hart, Nancy; Cabrera, Ivan E.; Byars-Winston, Angela – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the motivation of research mentors to address race/ethnicity in their research mentoring relationships, using self-determination theory as a conceptual framework. Mentors from science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) fields primarily in the biological sciences (N = 115) were asked to…
Descriptors: Mentors, Motivation, Race, Ethnicity
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Carnes, Molly; Devine, Patricia G.; Isaac, Carol; Manwell, Linda Baier; Ford, Cecelia E.; Byars-Winston, Angela; Fine, Eve; Sheridan, Jennifer – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2012
The National Science Foundation and others conclude that institutional transformation is required to ensure equal opportunities for the participation and advancement of men and women in academic science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). Such transformation requires changing the habitual attitudes and behaviors of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Intervention, Organizational Change, Sex Fairness