Campus Diversity and Creativity

Project Summary

Researchers Involved: Ian S. Ray (PI)

This project involves developing a measure to determine the impact of campus DEI initiatives on institutional publication productivity. Overall project outcomes include:

  1. Determining the nature of the relationship between campus diversity and institutional productivity

  2. Differentiate between effects of campus diversity and effects of regional or county diversity on institutional productivity

  3. Creating a measure of creativity arising from diversity

  4. Creating growth model for the impact of campus policies on campus diversity

  5. Correlating the growth of campus diversity with the growth in academic creativity and productivity

Work Accomplished To Date

  1. Data collected from Nature and IPEDS

  2. Preliminary descriptive statistics

  3. Regional diversity impacts in progress.

  4. Measure development in progress.

Publications to Date

Ray, I.S. (In Review). Student Diversity Positively Predicts Publications in Nature-Affiliated Journals at US-based Institutions. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Next Steps

Regional diversity impacts and measure development.

Longitudinal growth model and institutional policy assessments.