PDF Handouts
Each handout includes general information about Black males along various STEM pathways, tips or recommended practices, and reflection questions. The reflective questions have been provided to support ongoing conversations toward the support of Black males in STEM. The reflection questions can be used individually or as a group.
Research Articles
Article Co-authors
Anne Bonanno, Emily Boerman, Jordan Burkhart, Jennifer Hormell, Jarrel Johnson, Alex Knight, Carmen C. McCallum, Alade McKen, Gordon J. M. Palmer, Tiaira Porter, Justin Roberson, William A. Smith, Blayne D. Stone Jr., Joshua D. Wallace.
Burt, B. A., Stone Jr., B. D., Porter, T., & Wallace, J. D. (2023). Aspiring to the road less traveled: Factors influencing Black males’ pursuits of engineering graduate degreesopens in new tab. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 29(5), 65-92.
Burt, B. A., McCallum, C. M., Wallace, J. D., Roberson, J., Bonanno, A., & Boerman, E. (2021). Moving toward stronger advising practices: How Black males’ experiences at HPWIs advance a more caring and wholeness-promoting framework for graduate advisingopens in new tab. Teachers College Record, 123(10), 31-58.
Burt, B. A., Roberson, J., Johnson, J., & Bonanno, A. (2020). Black men in engineering graduate programs: A theoretical model of the motivation to persistopens in new tab. Teachers College Record, 122(11), 1-58.
Burt, B. A., McKen, A., Burkhart, J., Hormell, J., & Knight, A. (2019). Black men in engineering graduate education: Experiencing racial microaggressions within the advisor-advisee relationshipopens in new tab. Journal of Negro Education, 88(4), 493-508.
Burt, B. A., Williams, K. L., & Palmer, G. J. M. (2019). It takes a village: The role of emic and etic adaptive strengths on the persistence of Black men in engineering graduate programsopens in new tab. American Educational Research Journal, 56(1), 39-74.
Burt, B. A., & Johnson, J. (2018). Origins of STEM interest for Black male graduate students in engineering. School Science and Mathematics, 118(6), 257-270.
Burt, B. A., Williams, K. L., & Smith, W. A. (2018). Into the storm: Ecological and sociological impediments to Black males’ persistence in engineering graduate programsopens in new tab. American Educational Research Journal, 55(5), 965-1006.
Burt, B. A., Knight, A., & Roberson, J. (2017). Racializing experiences of foreign-born and ethnically diverse Black male engineering graduate students: Implications for student affairs practice, policy, and researchopens in new tab. Journal of International Students, 7(4), 925-943.
Statistics
- Of the 798,534 US graduate students enrolled in STEM programs in 2022, only 2% were Black males
(National Science Foundation, 2022opens in new tab) - Of the 790,752 STEM degrees (associate, bachelors, masters, and doctoral) awarded by institutions in 2021, only 4.5% were earned by Black males (National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 2022opens in new tab)