Replication Data for: Reflections on an Institutional Journey Toward Enhancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Political Science

The discipline of political science has struggled to recruit, mentor, and retain significant
numbers of women and underrepresented minorities. Encouragingly, many individuals
and institutions have developed innovative programs and sought to create structural
changes to increase our discipline’s diversity and inclusivity. This piece discusses an
exciting new “pipeline program” aimed at diversifying the student body in the
discipline’s doctoral programs. We describe the program’s contours, structure,
personnel, and content; consider the lessons we learned from developing and
managing it, and offer preliminary data on outcomes. We emphasize the need for more
members of the discipline to incrementally develop bold and creative initiatives,
identifying the opportunities, capitalizing on the advantages, and confronting the
constraints that their context presents. We highlight the importance of achieving clarity
on the success parameters, and securing institutional backing, for such efforts; of
public and private funders supporting them; and of coordination and collaboration
among those who bring them to life.