Pearson, Y. E., & Phillips, C. M. L., & Borello, L. J., & Cropps, T., & Wu, J., & Boyle, S. R. (2025, February), Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Members’ Personal and Professional Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion  Paper presented at 2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD), San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--54083

\bibitem{asee_peer_54083}
  Pearson, Y. E., \& Phillips, C. M. L., \& Borello, L. J., \& Cropps, T., \& Wu, J., \& Boyle, S. R. (2025, February), \emph{Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Members’ Personal and Professional Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion}
  Paper presented at 2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering \& Computing Diversity (CoNECD), San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--54083

Yvette E. Pearson P.E., Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Lisa J. Borello, Torrie Cropps, Jue Wu, and Samara Rose Boyle.  "Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Members’ Personal and Professional Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion".  2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD), San Antonio, Texas, 2025, February.  ASEE Conferences, 2025.  https://peer.asee.org/54083 Internet.  22 May, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_54083}
  Yvette E. Pearson P.E., Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Lisa J. Borello, Torrie Cropps, Jue Wu, and Samara Rose Boyle.
  "Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Members’ Personal and Professional Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion".
  \emph{2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering \& Computing Diversity (CoNECD), San Antonio, Texas, 2025, February}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2025.
  https://peer.asee.org/54083 Internet.  22 May, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Individuals from racially and ethnically minoritized identities, women, and persons with disabilities continue to be minoritized in STEM academic programs and in the STEM workforce. Recognizing incumbent faculty members are gatekeepers to student success, and ultimately the STEM workforce (including academia), we aim to understand how their perspectives on diversity, equity, and inclusion might influence their professional practice. 


We conducted a nationwide survey of STEM faculty members and administrators using an adapted version of Pohan and Aguilar’s Personal and Professional Beliefs about Diversity scales. The questions on the Pohan and Aguilar scales cover several dimensions of diversity – race, ethnicity, gender, nationality, socioeconomic status, disability, and sexual orientation; this study included results from items related to race, ethnicity, and nationality. Though these instruments account for social desirability bias, we added items from a 10-item version of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale to determine respondents’ tendency toward social conformity and examine the extent to which responses on the beliefs scales might be impacted by those tendencies. 

The research questions that guide this study are:

•	What is the relationship between engineering and computer science faculty members’ personal and professional beliefs about race, ethnicity, and nationality?
•	To what extent are those beliefs influenced by social desirability bias?

We administered the survey to faculty members and administrators in all STEM disciplines, including social and behavioral sciences. Of the 334 who responded to all three sections (personal beliefs, professional beliefs, and social desirability), 84 had primary appointments in engineering or computer science, and thus, comprised this study population. We found a moderate positive correlation between respondents’ personal and professional beliefs. We did not find a significant relationship between personal or professional belief scores and tendency toward social conformity; however, our results indicated respondents were more favorably disposed toward personal beliefs about race, ethnicity, and nationality than professional beliefs and the relative frequency of those responses occurred in the presence of high social conformity.

AU  - Yvette E. Pearson P.E.
AU  - Canek Moises Luna Phillips
AU  - Lisa J. Borello
AU  - Torrie Cropps
AU  - Jue Wu
AU  - Samara Rose Boyle
CY  - San Antonio, Texas
DA  - 2025/02/09
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Members’ Personal and Professional Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/54083
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--54083
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