Coley, B. C., & Bekki, J. M., & Wilkins-Yel, K. G., & Nicole, F., & Maitra, D., & Gutierrez, J. D., & Darvishpour Ahandani, M., & Campbell, M. (2023, June), It’s No Mystery, So It Must Be Intentional: How Institutions Fail to Support Black STEM Doctoral Students’ Mental Health  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43895

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  Coley, B. C., \& Bekki, J. M., \& Wilkins-Yel, K. G., \& Nicole, F., \& Maitra, D., \& Gutierrez, J. D., \& Darvishpour Ahandani, M., \& Campbell, M. (2023, June), \emph{It’s No Mystery, So It Must Be Intentional: How Institutions Fail to Support Black STEM Doctoral Students’ Mental Health}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--43895

Brooke Charae Coley, Jennifer M. Bekki, Kerrie G. Wilkins-Yel, Fantasi Nicole, Debalina Maitra, Juan David Gutierrez, Motahareh Darvishpour Ahandani, and Michelle Campbell.  "It’s No Mystery, So It Must Be Intentional: How Institutions Fail to Support Black STEM Doctoral Students’ Mental Health".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/43895 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_43895}
  Brooke Charae Coley, Jennifer M. Bekki, Kerrie G. Wilkins-Yel, Fantasi Nicole, Debalina Maitra, Juan David Gutierrez, Motahareh Darvishpour Ahandani, and Michelle Campbell.
  "It’s No Mystery, So It Must Be Intentional: How Institutions Fail to Support Black STEM Doctoral Students’ Mental Health".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/43895 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Within a pseudo-post COVID-19 pandemic period of time, and juxtaposed within our current hyper-divisive socio-political landscape, members of the Black community in the United States face daily challenges including continuous, subtle, and overt expressions of racism that create disproportionate risk to physical, mental, and economic health and safety at the hands of the basic systems that undergird society (e.g., criminal justice, housing, political, educational) and that were designed to promote and sustain white supremacy  At institutions of higher education, Black doctoral students in STEM additionally endure the impact of systemic anti-Black racism within their academic/professional environments, regularly navigating microaggressions, spirit injuries, and concurrent hyper and invisibility.  

This paper reports on findings from interviews with 11 Black doctoral students in STEM from a variety of institutions (i.e., Traditionally White Institutions (TWIs), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and Hispanic Serving Institutions (MSIs)) across the United States.  Research participants (hereafter referred to as co-constructors, in recognition of their co-construction of the knowledge generated by the project) were recruited to the study through targeted social media outlets and professional networks, and inclusion criteria were identifying as a Black student enrolled in a STEM doctoral program at a US-based institution.  

During 1-2 hour semi-structured zoom interviews conducted in pairs by members of our research team, co-constructors shared experiences related to their academic climate, institutional department / climate, doctoral program advisor, mental health and wellbeing, or career trajectory and aspirations.   Reported in this paper are an analysis of their responses to the following prompts:  “How has your STEM department/program supported Black doctoral students’ mental health? If not, how would you like your STEM department/program to support Black doctoral students' mental health?”  Three categories of findings and related implications are presented:  1) mental health support that co-constructors indicated was provided to all students; 2) mental health support provided by institutions explicitly to support Black students, and 3)the types of support Black doctoral students in STEM wish their institutions had provided.  The recommendations shared in this paper highlight the critical and unmet needs of Black graduate students across institutions and STEM disciplines

AU  - Brooke Charae Coley
AU  - Jennifer M. Bekki
AU  - Kerrie G. Wilkins-Yel
AU  - Fantasi Nicole
AU  - Debalina Maitra
AU  - Juan David Gutierrez
AU  - Motahareh Darvishpour Ahandani
AU  - Michelle Campbell
CY  - Baltimore , Maryland
DA  - 2023/06/25
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - It’s No Mystery, So It Must Be Intentional: How Institutions Fail to Support Black STEM Doctoral Students’ Mental Health
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/43895
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--43895
ER  -