UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #914

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  approximately_how_many_hours_a_week_would_the_research_assistant: '10'
  are_you_currently_looking_for_students_: 'Yes'
  confirmation_1: '1'
  contact_email_fsu_email: ''
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  contact_email_fsu_email_if_affiliated_: ml22a@fsu.edu
  faculty_advisor_confirmation: '1'
  faculty_advisor_name: 'Danny Fay'
  faculty_advisor_s_fsu_email: dfay@fsu.edu
  fsu_college: 'Social Sciences and Public Policy'
  fsu_department_if_applicable_: 'Askew School of Public Administration'
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  mentoring_philosophy: 'My goal is to provide mentees with the opportunities to develop basic research skills (critical thinking, literature review, etc.) that are necessary for them to work on their own research projects. I will listen to the needs of my mentees, discuss and identify the goals they want to meet, and how to help them meet these goals. As a mentor, I will aim to create an inclusive, respectful, and positive environment for the mentees by actively communicating with them, learning from them, and being open-minded to different opinions. During this mentorship, I will use a phased approach to set up goals and meet weekly with the mentees. I will provide timely feedback on their progress and timely responses to their questions. I aim to establish a positive and easy-to-work relationship with the mentees by paying attention to the way I communicate with the mentees and learning about their thoughts and difficulties. '
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  overall_research_project_description: |
    The political response to the transgender issue has become polarized within the U.S. (Kline et al., 2023). There is a continuing changing environment of transgender policies at the federal level and the continuing increasing anti-transgender rights policies at the state level (Larson, 2022; Kline et al., 2023). Transgender individuals might experience very differently based on where they live. Putting these geographical differences into the context of higher education. Without specific, explicit, and holistic Federal-level inclusion of transgender students’ rights at the federal level, higher education institutions have the discretion to implement regulations that are against transgender groups’ rights in response to state-level policies and public opinions (Crissman et al., 2020; Coffey, 2022). Using the theory of policy diffusion and innovation, which focuses on learning how a policy or program that is new to an entity gets adopted and what factors influence the adoption decision, this study aims to understand how these policy movements at higher levels (federal and state levels) would influence transgender policy adoptions at higher education institutions (Berry & Berry, 2018).  

    References:
    Berry, F., & Berry, W. (2018). Innovation and Diffusion Models in Policy Research. Theories of the Policy Process (4th ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429494284

    Coffey, L. M. (2022). Equity or Discrimination: Addressing Legal Challenges to Transgender Participation in U.S. High School and College Sport. Journal of Global Sport Management, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/24704067.2022.2071321
    Crissman, H. P., Czuhajewski, C., Moniz, M. H., Plegue, M., & Chang, T. (2020). Youth Perspectives regarding the Regulating of Bathroom Use by Transgender Individuals. Journal of Homosexuality, 67(14), 2034–2049. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2019.1618646

    Kline, N. S., Webb, N. J., Johnson, K. C., Yording, H. D., Griner, S. B., & Brunell, D. J. (2023). Mapping transgender policies in the US 2017–2021: The role of geography and implications for health equity. Health & Place, 80, 102985–102985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.102985

    Larson, S. J. (2022). Actions for Queering American Public Administration. Administration & Society, 54(1), 145–163. https://doi.org/10.1177/00953997211011937
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  please_select_the_choice_that_most_accurately_describes_your_exp: 'Partially Remote'
  please_select_the_location_of_your_project_: 'On FSU Main Campus'
  position_availability_for_student_research: 'Flexible schedule'
  position_title: 'Graduate Student'
  primary_research_mentor_name: 'Mingxu Li'
  project_keywords: 'Policy diffusion; Transgender policy; higher education'
  relevant_student_major_s_: 'Public administration; Higher education'
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  research_tasks_for_student_research_assistant_s_: |-
    Literature Review; 
    Data collection (collecting data from higher education institutions regards their transgender-related policies and regulations; collecting state-level transgender-related policies)
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  skills_that_research_assistants_may_need_: |-
    Data Collection and Analysis (required);
    Critical Thinking (recommended);
    Verbal and Written Communication Skills (required)
  title_of_the_project: 'Under the Countermovement of Federal and State Policies: How Would Higher Education Institutes Adopt Trans-inclusive Policies?'
  update_url: 'https://cre.fsu.edu/urop-research-mentor-project-submission-portal?token=6T2WCTwI70leJZRWsfjpNAaLvUKaXrNeyLzbX2VDJCg'
  urop_performance_evaluation: '1'
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  would_you_like_to_participate_in_the_urop_research_mentor_round2: 'No'
  would_you_like_to_participate_in_the_urop_research_mentor_roundt: 'No'
  year: '2024'