Scientific Societies Fostering Inclusive Scientific Environments through Travel Awards: Current Practices and Recommendations
| Autor: | Richard McGee, J. Luis Lujan, Michael J. Leibowitz, Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Laura Phelan, Mark A. Lawson, Candice M. Etson, Sonia C. Flores, Ashley N. Guillory, Catherine Fry, Kirsta Suggs, Susan L. Ingram, Clara Primus, Elizabeth Vuong, Verónica A. Segarra, Latanya Hammonds-Odie, Maria Elena Zavala, Ashanti Edwards, Stephanie Paxson, Leticia R. Vega |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Societies
Scientific Essay media_common.quotation_subject Sense of community Awards and Prizes Environment General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Education 03 medical and health sciences Engineering Underrepresented Minority 030304 developmental biology media_common 0303 health sciences Travel business.industry 05 social sciences Professional development Equity (finance) 050301 education Public relations Alliance Professional association business 0503 education Inclusion (education) Diversity (politics) |
| Zdroj: | CBE Life Sciences Education |
| ISSN: | 1931-7913 |
| Popis: | Diversity-focused committees continue to play essential roles in the efforts of professional scientific societies to foster inclusion and facilitate the professional development of underrepresented minority (URM) young scientists in their respective scientific disciplines. Until recently, the efforts of these committees have remained independent and disconnected from one another. Funding from the National Science Foundation has allowed several of these committees to come together and form the Alliance to Catalyze Change for Equity in STEM Success, herein referred to as ACCESS. The overall goal of this meta-organization is to create a community in which diversity-focused committees can interact, synergize, share their collective experiences, and have a unified voice on behalf of URM trainees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. In this Essay, we compare and contrast the broad approaches that scientific societies in ACCESS use to implement and assess their travel award programs for URM trainees. We also report a set of recommendations, including both short- and long-term outcomes assessment in populations of interest and specialized programmatic activities coupled to travel award programs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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