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  • Learning from Hidden Realities of Latinx Contingent STEM Faculty at Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Policies to Support Latinx Contingent STEM Faculty.
Title: Learning from Hidden Realities of Latinx Contingent STEM Faculty at Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): Policies to Support Latinx Contingent STEM Faculty.
The Conference for Latinx Contingent Faculty Members convened a group of faculty members in STEM fields at Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) in the California State University System. The two-day event explored the often hidden, or unacknowledged realities of contingent faculty participants, with the purpose of gathering information about barriers and trade-offs these faculty experience professionally and personally that impact their work. This report provides an overview of barriers and challenges that were raised in the conference, and a brief review of the literature of strategies that could address these experiences, and better support Latinx contingent faculty in STEM.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2137331
PAR ID:
10453025
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of higher education policy and management
Volume:
28
Issue:
2
ISSN:
1469-9508
Page Range / eLocation ID:
19-31
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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