Advancing Latinas in STEM Academic Careers
We invite papers for inclusion in a Special Edited Volume on Advancing Latinas in STEM Academic Careers focused on best practices, lessons learned, and cutting-edge research on advancing Latinas in STEM academic careers. This work comes out of our 2-Part NSF INCLUDES Advancing Latinas in STEM Academic Careers symposium (2019 & 2021). The audience for the collection will be researchers, colleges, universities, and other institutions with the goal to share knowledge, best practices, and resources for advancing Latinas in STEM academic careers. The Volume will be published with an online component (publisher to be determined).The Volume will include topics presented at the symposium, including, but not limited to:
- Best practices and lessons learned to enhance the success of Latinas, a significantly underrepresented group in STEM academic careers.
- How inclusive academic climates that take into account issues related to the intersectionality of gender and ethnicity impact the success of Latinas, other women, and other under-represented groups in STEM academic careers.
- Research on how attitudes/behaviors, policies, and practices at institutions of higher education affect the professional success of Latinas, other women, and other under-represented groups in STEM academic careers.
- How work-life issues, policies/ practices, and mentoring impact the pathways/pipelines, recruitment, retention, and advancement/leadership of Latinas in academic STEM careers.
- How networking activities facilitate and lead to the implementation of programs/initiatives impacting the advancement of STEM Latinas.
We will consider a variety of formats, including a traditional academic research paper, collaborative approach, an interview format, narrative report of practices and lessons learned by your institution/organization, personal testimonios, to name just a few examples.
Please submit a Word document version of your paper per the instructions below to ADVANCE@utrgv.edu along with a brief (100 word maximum) author bio at the end of your submission (in the same Word document).
Instructions:
The maximum page limit is 20-25 pages.
Use Times New Roman, size 12 font, with 1-inch margins.
- Double space the entire paper including endnotes and Works Cited.
- Center your title followed by your name and affiliation right under it
- After your affiliation and before the first paragraph of the essay, include a short essay abstract (250 words maximum).
- Use endnotes instead of footnotes.
- Use the Chicago-Style for Works Cited and endnotes; see http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html. When referencing work in the text, follow the “author date” format, where the author and date are included in parentheses. An example is “Many of the jobs lost during recent economic downturns have been middle-skilled positions (Jaimovich and Siu 2012; Acemoglu and Autor 2011)”.
- Left justify the entire paper including subheadings in this fashion:
Subheading 1
Subheading 2
Subheading 3
- Save your document as a Microsoft Word file as follows: “yourfirstinitiallastnameSTEMLATINAS.doc” for example: MMcMahonSTEMLATINAS.doc.
- Write: "ADVANCING STEM LATINAS VOLUME" on the Subject line of your email.
- Include a brief (100 word maximum) author bio in your Word document submission.
- Submit the Word version of your paper to ADVANCE@utrgv.edu