Questions tagged [ethnicity]
For questions related to people of various ethnicities and races in an academic context. This can be used both for interactions and for research involving race and ethnicity.
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I insulted a professor by using an anti-Semitic slur in a department seminar. How bad is this?
I am in a research group in a French university in physics (I am a 1st year PhD student) and in a seminar in my university I used a slur against an Israeli professor, Professor X.
I am from an Arab ...
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What resources are available for academics of color to navigate academia from postdoc onward?
Many people have commented that there is a "hidden curriculum" in academia. In colleges, there are student groups that discuss issues related to race and ethnicity. In industry, there are ...
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What is the correct term to indicate the category "Race" on a chart showing demographic statistics? [closed]
I'm editing a quantitative paper in sociology based on a Statistics Canada survey. The survey uses the term "visible minority" in a yes/no question asking if participants identify as a ...
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How to handle requests for a race-based exam structure?
A colleague of mine is a non-tenured teaching-track faculty
in a neighboring university.
We work together frequently through our joint outreach and REU projects.
He is currently teaching a summer ...
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My student published a preprint of our published paper without me as an author
One of my former students uploaded a paper we just published in a top physics journal without my name. The fraudulent paper is now appearing on the Google Scholar search results below the original ...
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A social experiment. What is the worst that can happen? [closed]
I am a postdoc and I have been applying for jobs in both industry and academia. My h-index is good enough for junior faculty (~7).
Along my academic CV I have an industry-oriented CV and send both of ...
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Telling where I am originally from at the first lecture?
I am going to start teaching next year in a university in the UK. One common question I get with students in one-to-one conversations is about my origin. I certainly have an accent, and they are ...
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Does ethnic diversity of the academic staff affect the productivity of the faculty?
Are there any studies where the effect of ethnic diversity on the productivity studied? If so, what are the criteria?
Do universities with more diversity tend to prepare better publications, or the ...
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For STEM fields, is there self-segregation in United States academia?
I notice that often a lot of Chinese mathematicians collaborate with other Chinese, and Americans collaborate with other Americans. Many of the journal papers that I look up seem to indicate this ...
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Is this statistic about how many Latinos/Hispanics have a PhD in the USA correct?
According to Ileana Freytes-Ortiz,
< 2% of people in the US have a #phd
Of those, 6.5% are Hispanic
By defending my PhD yesterday, I just became part of the 0.13% in the US that is #...
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How to conduct research as a non-Latino in a Latino-studies research institute?
I will be conducting research in a Latino-studies research institute next summer. I will probably be the only non-Latino researcher in the institute that summer. I’m also approaching my research from ...
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A seminar about women in STEM fields [closed]
I'm attending a talk that will be given by a professor that runs a social-cognitive development lab at our school, and the topic will be about his work that attempts to explain why women are less ...
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Using my ethnically misleading name in a field where it's relevant
I'm a white person researching Asian history. Let's say I'm married and have taken my husband's name, which is unambiguously Asian (I'll use "Leung" for the examples). I'm unsure whether I should use ...
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Are universities strongly associated with ethnic minority groups a thing outside the USA?
This question asks about the history of why Howard University in Washington, DC, USA has remained a school whose student and faculty bodies are predominantly African-American.
Do "historically [...
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Could it be beneficial for me to not disclose my gender/ethnicity in an REU application?
I am an undergraduate in the US applying to REUs in mathematics. Every REU I am applying to through MathPrograms has a section where you can choose to fill out your gender/race, along with a message ...
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