Dr Ezella McPherson

Broschiertes Buch

Dream On! Supporting and Graduating African American Girls and Women in STEM

Beschreibung

Dream on! Supporting and Graduating African American Girls and Women in STEM tells the life stories of African American women who originally pursued degrees in pre-medicine and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors in high school and college. In Dream On! Dr. McPherson draws upon the personal stories of 16 undergraduate African American women who had aspirations of pursuing undergraduate degrees that led to careers in medicine, health professions, engineering, or mathematical fields. The book begins by telling their success stories and love for math and science in K-12 settings. It then discusses their stories of trials, triumphs, and even some tragedies when pursuing their undergraduate degrees at predominantly white institutions (PWIs). Despite enduring challenges in their majors, all 16 of resilient African American women completed undergraduate degrees in health science, social science, and/or STEM majors. A discussion on how they built a sense of community, that is a sense of belonging in their majors is described as well. Careers that these women pursued were medical doctors, scientists, mathematicians, engineer, business professional, and human resources professionals. The book is a must read for girls, women, and minority women, and minorities who want to pursue medical degrees or STEM fields at predominantly white institutions, families, educators, administrators, and policymakers.

Autor

Dr. Ezella McPherson earned a Master of Education and Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. As an African American woman, she is familiar with the STEM culture through first-hand experiences, observations of friends, and former students in STEM majors and pre-medicine. She has also published manuscripts on African American women's giftedness in STEM ("Oh you are smart: Young, gifted African American women in STEM majors"), spiritual capital ("Having our say in higher education: African American women's stories of 'doing science' through using spiritual capital"), resilience ("African American women's resilience in hard science majors"), informal learning ("Informal learning in SME fields for African American undergraduate females"), and commitment to STEM majors ("To commit or leave from STEM majors at a PWI: An exploration of African American women's experiences"). She recently published the number 1 best-selling book titled, Real Outreach: A Practical Guide to Retaining and Graduating College Students. Her co-authored manuscripts include the mentoring of African American women in STEM at Historically Black College and Universities ("Mentoring our own: African American women in engineering" with co-author Dr. Virginia Tickles) and examining the experiences of minority women in STEM ("Minority women in STEM: A valuable resource in the global economy" with co-author Dr. Diane Fuselier-Thompson"). She has presented on college student persistence, retention, and graduation of African American women, minority students, and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) students at conferences, such as the American Educational Research Association, American Educational Studies Association, Association for the Study of Higher Education, STEM Education Conference University of British Columbia, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Oakland University Student Success Conference, American Sociological Association, and the Equity within the Classroom Conference.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dr. McPherson Coaching
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9781737273127
• ISBN-10: 1737273128
• Artikelnr.: 62819884