Identifying and Leveraging Community Cultural Wealth in Physics Bridge Programs

The Research Hub is excited to share our latest resource, which is a guide to help bridge students identify their cultural wealth. Even with the preparation and community that Bridge Programs provide, students may still face challenges in their graduate programs. While racially minoritized students are often able to overcome these challenges by drawing on various forms of cultural capital they possess, the forms of cultural capital they utilize are often overlooked and unacknowledged in the academy. This research-based guide is designed to help students in physics and other fields’ bridge programs recognize and become empowered by the cultural wealth they already possess.

This work is the result of a Research Hub project led by Dr. Geraldine Cochran at the Ohio State University. The student-centered focus of this guide is based on the recommendations of the students that Dr. Cochran and her team interviewed for this project. Please share with your colleagues and students!

Special thanks to Geraldine Cochran, Stella Nelson, Sabrina Henige, and Jordan Koehnke for their leadership in developing this guide!