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Coleen Carrigan: Awarded NSF Grant to Diversify the National Engineering Population

Cal Poly professor Coleen Carrigan is part of a team that has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE grant to broaden participation in engineering. Launching Academics on the Tenure-Track: an Intentional Community in Engineering (LATTICE) is a joint effort between California Polytechnic State University, the University of Washington, and North Carolina State University that seeks to positively impact women faculty in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and underrepresented minority women in academic Engineering. Carrigan leads the ethnographic research to study:

· Individual and group values, politics, and practices of change agents in the NSF ADVANCE community;

· Differences in social identities and disciplines of both program organizers and participants; and

· Feminist strategies to facilitate consciousness-raising and transformative leadership in STEM.

This research is intended to create and share new knowledge on social change efforts in academic engineering and the critical elements of intervention programs that ensure the retention and success of faculty underrepresented in engineering. The long-term goal of LATTICE is to diversify the national engineering faculty population.

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