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Researchers are debating whether biases against women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) have reduced over time, persist in nearly all training and career contexts, or vary in more nuanced ways across contexts and STEM fields. AIR is synthesizing four decades of research to understand the postsecondary and workforce contexts in which bias against women in STEM remains especially pernicious and the interventions that can most effectively reduce such biases.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic put extraordinary pressures on the U.S. economy, a number of disruptive shifts complicated workforce stability and preparation. AIR's Workforce Development and Economic Mobility/Prosperity Working Group conducted a series of analyses to better understand current economic dynamics. Here are the key takeaways and guideposts for building a strong, enduring workforce system.
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On April 22, 2021, the Institute for Educational Leadership, AIR, and a panel of regional and global business leaders met for a discussion about the benefits to the business community in serving customers with disabilities. The panelists discussed business strategies for inclusion of people with disabilities and their families, from design to marketing to hiring.
The 36th SIOP Annual Conference will be held entirely virtually, offering an expanded schedule of live synchronous sessions, plenaries, workshops, and interactive receptions and breaks, alongside a rich array of asynchronous sessions for convenient on-demand viewing. AIR will participate in several presentations at the conference
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AIR is strengthening its efforts to diversify the fields of behavioral and social science research through a partnership with three large universities across the country. The AIR Pipeline Partnership Program seeks to address a persistent lack of racial and ethnic diversity in the BSSR fields and ensure that individuals from underrepresented backgrounds are not marginalized or excluded from opportunities, resources and supports to excel in their career pursuits.
Experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and Maher & Maher, an affiliate of AIR, will present several sessions during the 2021 Coalition on Adult Basic Education (COABE) National Virtual Conference, being held March 22 – 24, 2021. AIR and Maher experts will present a number of sessions on a wide variety of topics, including the Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS), resources for adult education, distance education during the coronavirus pandemic, and more.
In the midst of the economic fallout from COVID-19, Scott Cheney, CEO of Credential Engine, joined Irma Perez-Johnson, vice president at AIR, to discuss recent research findings by Candace Hester and Sami Kitmitto suggesting that credit-bearing credentials are worth about 17% more annually than non-credit-bearing credentials.