by Amy E. Slaton | Jul 7, 2022 | Higher Ed
As I frequently tell anyone who will listen, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), perhaps surprisingly to those who don’t know it, serves as a platform for some of the most transformative thinking underway today on issues of racism, misogyny,...
by Amy E. Slaton | Mar 26, 2018 | Higher Ed
A white engineering professor jokingly suggests a white alternative to the National Society of Black Engineers. What this can tell us about the comfort and security of being white in the American academy: If we’re going to face up to the continuing...
by Amy E. Slaton and Donna M. Riley | Jan 31, 2018 | Higher Ed
December 2017 cover of Prism, the magazine of the American Society for Engineering Education. The huge wealth disparities and widespread racism, homophobia and ableism that help drive homelessness in America are not mere background conditions against which...
by Amy E. Slaton | Nov 28, 2017 | Higher Ed
Goodbye, STEMequity.com Eight years ago, I started posting at that url about issues of discrimination in American science, technology, engineering and mathematics, looking at education and labor from the perspective of attaining greater “STEM equity.” Racism, sexism,...
by Amy E. Slaton | May 23, 2016 | Higher Ed
[Due to my own technical ineptitude, a version of this posting originally published here on March 28, 2016 subsequently disappeared. I’m reposting it now (thanks to the technical aptitude of Justin Carone) because education researcher Angela Duckworth has...
by Amy E. Slaton | Oct 4, 2015 | Higher Ed, Media, Uncategorized
Diversity, Katherine W. Phillips writes in Scientific American, is both harder to achieve in science and engineering workplaces than we might hope, and a more worthwhile goal if innovation and new ideas are our aims. At first glance that argument seems like it would...
