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Fig. 4. Ethnicity of U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents among Degree Recipients in Selected Subjects, Combined and Weighted by Highest Degree to Reflect ASA Membership Profile.
(Numbers in parentheses indicate the percentage of degree recipients in that field who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents.)
nomenon limited to the U.S. only, interna- tional members should consider ways to increase ethnic diversity in acoustics in their own countries.
Diversity in acoustics
Acoustics as a discipline is rich in aca- demic diversity, drawing from arts, sci- ences, humanities, social sciences, and medicine. However, the data presented here indicate that there is still work to be done with respect to women, Blacks, and Hispanics; these are all underrepresented
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actions of every member.AT
References and notes
1 See http://acosoc.org/diversity/Diversity. html for more information about the CDA.
2 Taken from the Profile of Society Membership of the Acoustical Society of America, http://asa.aip.org/prof_members .html, accessed May 19, 2010, and adjusted for non-respondents.
3 Profile of Society Membership of the Acoustical Society of America, http://asa. aip.org/prof_members.html, accessed May 19, 2010.
4 See, for example, http://www.aip.org/statistics /trends/highlite/other/womenbach.htm, accessed May 19, 2010.
5 National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES), Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Degree Completion Surveys, accessed through National Science Foundation’s WebCASPAR (https://webcaspar.nsf.gov/), accessed April 14, 2010.
6 This weighted average is computed as
% women in acoustics = 􏰀f * % ASA membersf where f represents the academic fields first shown in Table 1.
7 National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES), Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Degree Completion Surveys, accessed through National Science Foundation’s WebCASPAR (https://webcaspar.nsf.gov/), accessed April 14, 2010.
8 Data from National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Degree Completion Surveys, accessed through National Science Foundation’s WebCASPAR (https://webcaspar.nsf.gov/), accessed April 14, 2010, and adjusted using ASA member-
In addition, women are underrepresented within the member- ship of the Acoustical Society of America. Future comparisons with existing data can be used to measure the effectiveness of these committees; however, the effective- ness of these committees depends on the
groups in acoustics.
Fig. 5. Ethnicity of Non-White U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents among Degree Recipients in Selected Subjects, Combined and Weighted by Highest Degree to Reflect ASA Membership Profile.
(Numbers in parentheses indicate the percentage of degree recipients in that field who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents.)
Fig. 6. Ethnicity of Non-White U.S. Citizens and Non-White U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents among Degree Recipients in Selected Subjects.
(Numbers in parentheses indicate the percentage of degree recipients in that field who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents.)
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