Conference Session

Diversity Research - Session I

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Diversity Research

structural change, so as to post a real challenge to systems of White supremacistcapitalist patriarchy. She also notes that the attacks have created opportunities for scholars tocome together and organize in new and broader way.Our field’s debates about how best to approach the enhancement of diversity, inclusion, andsocial justice in engineering education are healthy, vibrant, engaging, and must continue. For thisto happen, we need to be able to test new ideas in our publication venues and at conferences likeCONECD without fearing for our personal or professional security. It is not simply about theprinciple of academic freedom, which protects faculty expertise and scholarly authority. We needto make clear that research on diversity in engineering