JEE has undertaken several initiatives to provide training for peer reviewers and to make guidance for reviewers more transparent and comprehensive. These initiatives include the JEE Mentored Reviewer Program and related research, training to promote anti-racism in the reviewing and editing processes, and recent updates to the JEE Review Criteria that address issues such as the bias-free language and safeguarding vulnerable populations in research. This seminar will focus on these initiatives and the roles of academic publications in promoting equity and inclusion within and around communities of scholars.

Speaker Bio

Lisa Benson is a Professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University and the Editor of the Journal of Engineering Education. Her research focuses on the interactions between student motivation and their learning experiences. Her projects promote student voices in terms of their attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, sense of belonging and identity in their field, and beliefs about knowledge in their field. Dr. Benson is an American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Fellow and the 2018 recipient of the Clemson University Class of ’39 Award for Faculty Excellence. She earned a B.S. in Bioengineering (1978) from the University of Vermont, and M.S. (1986) and Ph.D. (2002) in Bioengineering from Clemson University.