Robert Leslie Fisher

Broschiertes Buch

Invisible Student Scientists

How Graduate School Science and Engineering Programs Shortchange Black, Hispanic, and Women Students

Beschreibung

Fisher asserts that more native-born women and underrepresented minorities need to obtain advanced degrees in the United States. Drawing on rich data from a sample of approximately 1,300 graduate students, Fisher shows how misguided graduate school policies and practices have discouraged women and minorities from seeking degrees in the sciences.

Autor

Robert Leslie Fisher is an independent researcher and author of The Research Productivity of Scientists and Invisible Student Scientists. He attended Stuyvesant High School, a special school for science-oriented students, and has degrees in sociology from City College of New York (B.A. cum laude), and Columbia University (M. Phil.). Prior to retiring in 2003, Fisher had a varied career as a criminal justice planner, research contracts officer, and program evaluator in New York State government. He is now an author and director of a nonprofit consulting organization in the Capital District of New York. Fisher is the author of three previous nonfiction books about the gender gap in science, all published by University Press of America, and has contributed articles on medical research. He also published Vanilla Republic, a mystery novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780761866169
• ISBN-10: 0761866167
• Artikelnr.: 43043754