Overcoming Persistent Barriers to Broadening Participation in the Federal Workforce

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 676-682
Author(s):  
Bill Valdez
Keyword(s):  
Personnel Management ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Office Of Personnel Management ◽  
National Science ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Participation Program ◽  
Broadening Participation ◽  
Underrepresentation Of Women ◽  
Federal Workforce ◽  
The U.S

“Broadening participation” is defined as programs or policies that have the potential to benefit society and contribute to the achievement of specific, desired societal outcomes. This program was created by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to address the underrepresentation of women, minorities, the disabled, and other groups in NSF’s programs and workforce. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management has recently taken steps that could lead to a closer examination of the NSF Broadening Participation Program as a way to deliver key insights into ways to overcome three persistent barriers to broadening participation in the overall federal workforce.

scholarly journals Chapter 1. Remarks on the opening of the historic place names of Franz Josef Land workshop, Oslo, Norway, 12-13 May 2015

2015 ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Susan Barr
Keyword(s):  
National Science Foundation ◽  
High Arctic ◽  
State University ◽  
Place Names ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Franz Josef Land ◽  
National Science ◽  
Penn State ◽  
The U.S

Remarks at the opening of a workshop, sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and held in Oslo, Norway, from 12-13 May 2015, to discuss the historic place names of the High Arctic archipelago of Franz Josef Land. The visiting students from Penn State University, none of whom had ever before been to Europe, were anxious to hear how Dr. Barr, a native of the United Kingdom, had come to Norway and made a life for herself in a different country with a different language, as a female in a then-largely male universe of polar research, and, in a nation of hunters, as a vegetarian.

Senior Designs to Aid the Disabled: The UAB Experience

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan W. Eberhardt ◽  
Laura K. Vogtle ◽  
Gary Edwards
Keyword(s):  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Senior Design ◽  
National Science ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The University

Abstract This paper presents a review of two years experience regarding senior design projects to aid persons with disabilities, for mechanical engineering students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The efforts are funded by the National Science Foundation and are aimed at developing alternative, low cost, custom devices to aid specific disabled individuals or targeted groups. A collaboration has been established with UAB Occupational Therapy and United Cerebral Palsy of Birmingham (UCP), who have provided projects which combine depth in both engineering and life sciences. The “UAB experience” described in the following includes project selection, development, student advising and overall significance. Completed designs are listed, along with efforts to bring the products to a marketable level.

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