Case Study Library
The Societies Consortium Case Study Library aims to help both societies and IHEs engage their overlapping communities and build more inclusive and equitable STEMM fields. Each of the Case Studies – which contain Section 1 (facts and reflection questions only) and Section 2 (facts, reflection question, and analysis) – can be accessed by clicking the buttons below. A description of each Case Study is below the button.
Materials:
- Vol. I Facts and Scopes of Issues
- Vol. II Facilitator Guide: Reflections
- Vol. III Facilitator Guide: Analysis
Description:
A recently tenured associate professor at a research university invites students and a post-doc to his home, serves them alcohol and engages in a game that includes sexual harassment. He is alleged to have sexually harassed one of the students who applied for his research position later that night while alone in a science lab. The victims don’t know what to do in the moment. The society and institution learn of the incident on social media and must respond.
Materials:
- Vol. I Facts and Scopes of Issues
- Vol. II Facilitator Guide: Reflections
- Vol. III Facilitator Guide: Analysis
Description:
A male tenured professor and society board member has brought in significant research funding and greatly enhanced the prestige of a university as an-up-and-coming program for women interested in computer science careers. He also writes and publishes historic-romance graphic novels, under a pen name, in his free time. The professor pressures his Black female graduate assistant/advisee to read one of his books, which has a racist and sexualized title and content, and discuss it at a picnic lunch. Despite the student raising her concerns with another faculty member in the department, when she meets her advisor for the picnic, he attempts to kiss and grope her.
Materials:
- Vol. I Facts and Scopes of Issues
- Vol. II Facilitator Guide: Reflections
- Vol. III Facilitator Guide: Analysis
Description:
A female society board member, and tenured professor, attends an annual conference, accompanied by selected students, as their faculty advisor. The group celebrates the faculty members’ successful research presentation with dinner and drinking. The faculty member and some reluctant students accompany other students who plan an outing to a gay bar with a notoriously sexually explicit cabaret show. Hotel staff notice the inebriated group when they return to the hotel and notify society staff who implement a response protocol.
Materials:
- Vol. I Facts and Scopes of Issues
- Vol. II Facilitator Guide: Reflections
- Vol. III Facilitator Guide: Analysis
Description:
A biracial, gender non-conforming, neurodiverse recent Ph.D. applying for a university fellowship attends a society annual meeting, arranged by the society’s in-coming President, who is also chair of the department offering the fellowship to vet leading candidates. The Ph.D experiences microaggressions and bias—comments/questions that are dismissive, demeaning, stereotyped, “old-school,” and inattentive to identity needs.
The Supplemental Materials and Resources below are intended to complement and support individual, or group facilitated, work with the Case Study Library. The information contained is not unique to any one case study and can be used with all case studies in the Library.
| Supplemental Materials & Resources (click each row to download) |
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| Section 3. Facilitator Preparation and Practices |
| Section 4. Elements of Effective Policies and Community Building Practices |
| Section 5. Reflection Questions for Individual Action |
| Section 6. National Support Resources |