DOI: 10.3886/icpsr39443
title: Enhance Diversity Study Faculty Survey, Los Angeles, California, 2017-2022
title: Archival Version

description: The Enhance Diversity Study (EDS) was part of the longitudinal evaluation of the training and mentoring interventions implemented by institutions receiving grants through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative, BUilding Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD). Interventions, launched in 2015, were designed to understand effective approaches to mentoring, faculty development, student engagement, research capacity building, and infrastructure development at undergraduate institutions.


Study participants were faculty at one of the institutions with a BUILD program, with focus on those in departments broadly related to biomedical research. The cohort was initially created from those who completed the survey in academic year 2016-2017. As faculty participated in BUILD programs, they were added to the study if they had not been in the initial cohort. The sample was refreshed in 2020-2021 to include recently hired faculty. Once participants were enrolled in the study, they were surveyed annually each Spring through 2022.


Surveys focused on elements of academic career trajectories that are relevant to the BUILD interventions. Related to Hallmarks of Success, these reflected psychosocial predictors such as mentor competency and science identity; short and medium-term outcomes included mentoring, research engagement, publications, and pedagogy presentations; and longer-term outcomes such as participation in professional organizations and grant submissions/awards. In 2017 and 2020, EDS used the Faculty Survey administered by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). For other time points, surveys were developed specifically for the study to include measures important for the evaluation.


In addition to surveys, the data available in this study include information about BUILD program participation by academic term. The BUILD programs were wide-reaching, including professional skill development (mentoring, pedagogy, and research), mentoring opportunities, and pilot and lab grant funding. These data can be used to determine whether survey respondents participated in any BUILD programs and the type and date of such participation.


Finally, summary demographics are provided. Using demographic information across surveys and from institution records, researchers created standardized indicators based on NIH classification of under-represented groups for faculty racial and ethnic, gender, and sexual minority identities.
description: The overarching goal of the study was developing, implementing, assessing, and disseminating innovative, effective approaches to engage, train, and mentor students; enhance faculty development; and strengthen institutional research and research training infrastructure.
description: Surveys compose the primary data for The Enhance Diversity Study (EDS), generally presented annually online from 2015-2023. Investigators leveraged existing national surveys conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI). The focus was on those in departments broadly related to biomedical research. Once participants were enrolled in the study, they were surveyed annually each Spring through 2022 with the Faculty Annual Follow-up Survey (FAFS), except for 2020, when the triennial Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) Faculty survey was used.
description: Surveys focused on elements of academic career trajectories that were relevant to the BUilding Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) interventions. These reflected psychosocial predictors such as mentor competency and science identity; short and medium-term outcomes including mentoring, research engagement, publications, and pedagogy presentations; and longer-term outcomes such as participation in professional organizations and grant submissions/awards.
description: Presence of Common Scales: 
Mentoring Competency Assessment


Cultural Diversity Awareness


Clinical Research Appraisal Inventory


Self Efficacy as Faculty Change Agent for Diversity


Teacher Self-Efficacy
description: The original cohort was created from those who completed the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) Faculty survey in academic year 2016-2017. As faculty participated in BUilding Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) programs, they were added to the study if they had not been in the initial cohort. The sample was refreshed in 2020-2021 to include recently hired faculty.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Enhance Diversity Study - Faculty 2017
DS2: Enhance Diversity Study - Faculty 2020
DS3: Enhance Diversity Study - Faculty Annual Follow-up Survey (FAFS) 2018
DS4: Enhance Diversity Study - Faculty Annual Follow-up Survey (FAFS) 2019
DS5: Enhance Diversity Study - Faculty Annual Follow-up Survey (FAFS) 2021
DS6: Enhance Diversity Study - Faculty Annual Follow-up Survey (FAFS) 2022
DS7: Enhance Diversity Study - Faculty Demographic Data
DS8: Enhance Diversity Study - Faculty Participation Data
description: Faculty of higher education institutions.
description: web-based survey