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Crippled at the Starting Gate

The Graduate Schools Created and Perpetuate the Gender Gap in Science and Engineering

By: Robert Leslie Fisher

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Crippled at the Starting Gate

The Graduate Schools Created and Perpetuate the Gender Gap in Science and Engineering

By: Robert Leslie Fisher

In Crippled at the Starting Gate, Robert Leslie Fisher argues that the United States needs an education bill, much like the G.I. Bill passed after World War II, to send more Americans to graduate school in the sciences and engineering. Equally important, the graduate schools need to change their culture not only to recruit more women, African-Americans, and Latinos into science, but to promote them to senior faculty positions. Accomplishing these changes in university science and engineering departments will be challenging since the institutions have a strong propensity to recruit white males similar to the overwhelmingly white male senior faculty. In Making Science Fair (2007), Fisher urged new productivity metrics to assure that more women can advance in science. Now Fisher urges ending burdensome educational practices including requiring women and foreign graduate students to teach under-graduates, which adversely affects both the graduate students and the undergraduates.

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0761849122

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9780761849124

Invisible Student Scientists

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

By: Robert Leslie Fisher

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Invisible Student Scientists

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

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In this book, Robert Leslie Fisher contends that thanks to misguided university and government policies, we have created a science elite that does not represent the demographics of the nation. We need to recruit more native-born women and under-represented minorities into graduate programs in order to maintain our nation’s prosperity and military strength. Fisher draws on sample data from 1300 male and female respondents from White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian students. He shows how the student culture of graduate schools in science and engineering sees women, Black, and Hispanic students as outsiders and deprives these budding scientists and research engineers of the collaborators they need to succeed in their careers. Fisher argues that we must inspire female, Black, and Hispanic graduate students to believe they can succeed in their careers by (1) changing the student culture in graduate schools’ science and engineering programs to be more inclusive, (2) removing burdensome undergraduate educational duties from graduate students so that they can concentrate on mastering the difficult subject matter of their disciplines, and (3) hiring more women and under-represented minorities as faculty to serve as role models.

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0761862625

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9780761862628

Educating Public Interest Professionals and the Student Loan Debt Crisis

By: Robert Leslie Fisher

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Educating Public Interest Professionals and the Student Loan Debt Crisis

By: Robert Leslie Fisher

In Educating Public Interest Professionals and the Student Loan Debt Crisis, Robert Leslie Fisher examines the student loan debt crisis and its effects on America’s citizens and economies. Exploring the shortage of professionals in fields such as education, medicine, and law, Fisher analyzes the causes and effects of the student loan debt crisis in America and argues for higher wages, student loan debt forgiveness, and an updated financial model to pay for training for public interest professionals. Supported by economic research and a sociological background, Fisher proposes a path forward that will ease the student loan debt crisis and revitalize the economy.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793614318

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9781793614315

Vanilla Republic

By: Robert Leslie Fisher

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Vanilla Republic

By: Robert Leslie Fisher

Richard Furman never imagined he would be a murder suspect when he signed up for the Peace Corps and shipped off to Sembeke, an island nation off the east coast of Africa, to teach English at an elite high school. He merely wanted to change careers, to indulge his life long dream of becoming a teacher even though it meant giving up a successful career in administration for New York State. As the story opens, Richard is waiting to testify in an inquest into the death of his native born girlfriend Caroline and wondering if he will be able to leave the country and start his new career as a teacher in the United States. Richard has much reason to worry. Although he knows his girlfriend committed suicide, he also realizes she was a secret agent of the ASN, the feared National Security Agency of Sembeke, spying on the Peace Corps volunteers for the new military government which has promised to islamify the nation. Does Carolines shadowy security agency want to blame him for her death? Do they want the Peace Corps volunteers kicked out? Richard realizes ruefully he has no more idea of what is in store for him than he knows about his native girlfriend and her past. What he does know is that her resume may include the murder of another agent of the National Security Agency, a man with connections to drug trafficking in the United States, before he surfaced in Sembeke to help the military coup leaders take over the country. Will he be allowed to testify about that in the inquest or will the ASN try to silence him permanently to keep all these messy facts from coming out?

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1438981953

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Educating Public Interest Professionals and the Student Loan Debt Crisis

By: Robert Leslie Fisher

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Crippled at the Starting Gate

The Graduate Schools Created and Perpetuate the Gender Gap in Science and Engineering

By: Robert Leslie Fisher

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The Graduate Schools Created and Perpetuate the Gender Gap in Science and Engineering

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The Research Productivity of Scientists

How Gender, Organization Culture, and the Problem Choice Process Influence the Productivity of Scientists

By: Robert Leslie Fisher

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The Research Productivity of Scientists

How Gender, Organization Culture, and the Problem Choice Process Influence the Productivity of Scientists

By: Robert Leslie Fisher

For over forty years, social scientists have noted and puzzled over the 'gender gap' in publication rates of academic scientists. In this study, the author, Robert L. Fisher, argues that men and women scientists differ in their 'problem choice process' and that this difference may be behind much of the difference in publication rates. Fisher draws on a large literature review, including much unpublished European research, and a detailed survey of 107 scientists from numerous disciplines that he carried out in the late 1990s in both the United States and Canada, to support his thesis.

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0761830251

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Invisible Student Scientists

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

By: Robert Leslie Fisher

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

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Massively Parallel, Optical, and Neural Computing in the United States

By: Gilbert Kalb,Robert Moxley

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Massively Parallel, Optical, and Neural Computing in the United States

By: Gilbert Kalb,Robert Moxley

A survey of products and research projects in the field of highly parallel, optical and neural computers in the USA. It covers operating systems, language projects and market analysis, as well as optical computing devices and optical connections of electronic parts.

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9051990979

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The Research Productivity of Scientists

How Gender, Organization Culture, and the Problem Choice Process Influence the Productivity of Scientists

By: Robert Leslie Fisher

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How Gender, Organization Culture, and the Problem Choice Process Influence the Productivity of Scientists

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Crippled at the Starting Gate

Crippled at the Starting Gate

Invisible Student Scientists

Invisible Student Scientists

Educating Public Interest Professionals and the Student Loan Debt Crisis

Educating Public Interest Professionals and the Student Loan Debt Crisis

Vanilla Republic

Vanilla Republic

Educating Public Interest Professionals and the Student Loan Debt Crisis

Educating Public Interest Professionals and the Student Loan Debt Crisis

Crippled at the Starting Gate

Crippled at the Starting Gate

The Research Productivity of Scientists

The Research Productivity of Scientists

Invisible Student Scientists

Invisible Student Scientists

Massively Parallel, Optical, and Neural Computing in the United States

Massively Parallel, Optical, and Neural Computing in the United States

The Research Productivity of Scientists

The Research Productivity of Scientists

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