Collaborative Research: IMPLEMENTATION: EVOLVED - Embedding a Vision to Operationalize, Lift up, and Value Equity and Diversity in the Consortium of Aquatic Science Societies

合作研究：实施：演进 - 在水生科学协会联盟中嵌入实施、提升和重视公平和多样性的愿景

• 批准号: 2233788
• 负责人: Kiyoko Yokota
• 金额: $ 8.83万
• 依托单位: SUNY College at Oneonta
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-15 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2233788&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; IMPLEMENTATION; EVOLVED; Embedding

EVOLVED (Embed a Vision to Operationalize, Lift up, and Value Equity and Diversity) is a comprehensive and integrated set of activities that embeds the principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and justice into the backbone of the Consortium of Aquatic Sciences Societies (CASS). CASS membership includes 20,000+ aquatic scientists from all career stages working across academic, government, and industry sectors. CASS initiated transformative diversity, equity, and inclusion work through a 2021 BIO-LEAPS planning grant, which laid the groundwork for EVOLVED. In that process, CASS leadership demonstrated a collective commitment to equity and inclusion and a desire to elevate this work to one of CASS’s primary priorities. The EVOLVED program will focus its work in 3 areas: (1) developing programming to serve members of underrepresented groups (broadly used to refer to individuals from communities that are historically underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), (2) re-envisioning CASS’s values, exploring biases and assumptions, and reexamining culture, to transform the CASS climate into a welcoming and open forum for diverse peoples and perspectives, and (3) building organizational infrastructure to support and sustain CASS's cultural evolution. The project includes a comprehensive mixed-method evaluation of all major initiatives. Together, the EVOLVED activities will catalyze cultural change at multiple levels: across CASS as a collective, in single societies, and by individual members within societies. The EVOLVED program will embed diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and justice into the cultural fabric of environmental, ecological, and organismal biology-focused aquatic sciences. This program will develop, implement, and assess activities that scale-up equity driven advancement across three levels of action: individual members, societies, and the CASS collective. EVOLVED will mechanistically link structural and cultural change aimed at breaking down major barriers to building diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within a consortium of professional, scientific societies and serve as a model for transformative culture change at the collective consortium level. To operationalize this, EVOLVED will: (1) build programming to serve members of underrepresented groups (broadly used in this proposal to refer to individuals from communities that are historically underrepresented in STEM), (2) re-envision values and mental models within CASS to transform its culture into a welcoming and open forum for diverse peoples and perspectives, and (3) build organizational infrastructure to support and sustain CASS's cultural evolution. Broader impacts of this work include increased engagement with minority-serving institutions within CASS, integration of DEI-focused values within individual CASS societies, and adoption of DEI-centric policy, management, and conservation work across the CASS collective. The proposed activities broaden participation of underrepresented groups in environmental biology disciplines; ensure more diverse voices are involved in biology-focused policy, conservation, and planning; and ultimately foster disciplinary excellence and environmental justice.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

进化（嵌入了运营，提升，价值公平和多样性的愿景）是一组全面而综合的活动，将多样性，公平，包容性，访问权限和正义的原则嵌入到水生科学协会（CASS）的骨架中。 CASS成员包括来自各个职业阶段的20,000多名水上科学家，在学术，政府和行业领域工作。 CASS通过2021年的Bio-Leaps Planning Grant启动了变革性的多样性，公平和包容性工作，这为进化的基础奠定了基础。在此过程中，CASS领导层表现出了对公平和包容性的集体承诺，并希望将这项工作提升到CASS的主要优先事项之一。 The EVOLVED program will focus its work in 3 areas: (1) developing programming to serve members of underrepresented groups (broadly used to refer to individuals from communities that are historically underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), (2) re-envisioning CASS’s values, exploring biases and assumptions, and reexamination culture, to transform the CASS climate into a welcome and open forum for divers people and （3）建立组织基础设施来支持和维持CASS的文化进化。有机生物学以水生科学为中心。该计划将开发，实施和评估跨三个行动范围驱动公平驱动的进步的活动：个人成员，社会和CASS集体。进化将在机械上将结构性和文化变革联系起来，旨在打破在专业，科学社会的财团内建立多样性，公平和包容性（DEI）的主要障碍，并作为集体财团变革性文化变革的模型。为了实现这一目标，进化的意愿：（1）为代表性不足的群体的成员提供服务（在本提案中广泛使用，指的是从历史上属于STEM中代表性不足的社区的个人），（2）在Cass中重新启动的价值观和心理模型，以将其文化转变为一个受欢迎的文化和开放的论坛，以使其成为不同的人民和构建的组织和（3）CASTRUTIONS CARTISTIRALS和3）CASTRUTION和3）。这项工作的更广泛的影响包括增加与CASS内少数派服务机构的参与，在Cass社会中以DEI为注重的价值观的整合以及在CASS集体中采用以DEI为中心的政策，管理和保护工作。拟议的活动扩大了代表性不足的群体在环境生物学学科中的参与；确保更多的潜水员参与以生物学为中心的政策，保护和计划；并最终促进了卓越纪律和环境正义。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准来评估，以诚实的方式表示支持。