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The Value of Assessing, Reporting, and Discussing Culture of Inclusion (Experience)

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Page Count

14

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41137

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https://peer.asee.org/41137

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256

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Denise M Driscoll Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

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Dr. Driscoll is an experimental social psychologist with expertise in stereotyping and prejudice; attitude and persuasion; diversity and inclusion; and, managerial and intercultural communication in business. Her experiences as an academic researcher, diversity consultant, and administrator over the last +30 years has helped her integrate broadening participation and inclusion practices across all research, workforce development, and community engagement initiatives. Dr. Driscoll is currently Director of Diversity and Inclusion at CISTAR, an NSF Engineering Research Center.

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Kristin Everett

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Dr. Everett is an educational evaluator and researcher and the lead evaluator at Everett Evaluation. She works with a variety of education programs and projects, including STEM, engineering education, teacher professional development, after school programs, and health education.

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Abstract

There is a common need across National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) —and likely other similarly large Centers, institutes, and working groups—to have a culture of inclusion that inspires individuals to bring all their energy, creativity, and talent to bear on solving the big societal problem that they were funded to solve. In this paper, we describe a Culture of Inclusion survey instrument that, although in early stages of use, is helping us to better understand what is contributing to, or detracting from, the Center’s culture of inclusion. We also describe an iterative process that helped us to incorporate suggestions from Center members and further improve both the Center’s culture of inclusion and our survey instrument.

Driscoll, D. M., & Everett, K. (2022, August), The Value of Assessing, Reporting, and Discussing Culture of Inclusion (Experience) Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41137

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