ERIC Number: EJ1467854
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Apr
Pages: 30
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0742-5627
EISSN: EISSN-1573-1758
Available Date: 2024-10-10
A Multi-Organizational Network's Evolving Efforts to Diversify the STEM Professoriate
Innovative Higher Education, v50 n2 p611-640 2025
Multi-organizational networks are increasingly understood as powerful levers for inducing change in higher education, particularly for fostering more diverse and inclusive organizations. Yet, there is limited scholarship on how these networks successfully change colleges and universities. This case study follows the evolution of one network effort, tracing how its theory of action changed over time. Through a close examination of semi-structured interviews and case-related artifacts, we generated a rich picture of network leadership, learning, and implementation. Future network leaders and funders will find this work useful. Scholars, too, will find that our work responds to numerous calls to examine how data-driven and equity-focused change efforts are successfully sustained in postsecondary education.
Descriptors: STEM Careers, Higher Education, Faculty, Diversity (Faculty), Inclusion, Teacher Attitudes, Networks, Colleges, Change Strategies, Research Universities, Coordinators, Organizational Climate, Partnerships in Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF); Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
Authoring Institution: N/A
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: 1834518; R305B200009
Department of Education Funded: Yes
Author Affiliations: 1Michigan State University, Educational Administration, East Lansing, USA; 2The Pell Institute, Washington, USA; 3University of Arizona, Educational Policy Studies and Practice, Tucson, USA; 4University of Maryland, Higher Education, Student Affairs, and International Education Policy, College Park, USA