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: 2233787
• 负责人: Robin Kodner
• 金额: $ 120.37万
• 依托单位: Western Washington University
• 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=2233787&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.

EVOLVED（嵌入实现、提升和重视公平和多样性的愿景）是一套全面、综合的活动，将多样性、公平、包容、准入和正义的原则嵌入到水生科学学会联盟的支柱中CASS 会员包括来自各个职业阶段的 20,000 多名水生科学家，他们在学术、政府和行业领域开展工作，发起了变革性的多样性、公平性和包容性工作。 2021 年 BIO-LEAPS 规划拨款为 EVOLVED 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为 CASS 的首要任务之一。 3 个领域：(1) 制定计划，为代表性不足群体的成员提供服务（广泛用于指历史上 STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学），(2) 重新构想 CASS 的价值观，探索偏见和假设，并重新审视文化，将 CASS 氛围转变为一个欢迎不同民族和观点的开放论坛，以及 (3) 建立组织基础设施来支持和维持 CASS该项目包括对所有主要举措的综合混合方法评估，EVOLVED 活动将在多个层面上促进文化变革：跨 CASS 作为一个集体、在单一社会中以及在个人中。 EVOLVED 计划将把多样性、公平、包容、获取和正义融入到以环境、生态和生物生物学为重点的水生科学的文化结构中。跨三个层面的行动推动进步：个人成员、社会和 EVOLVED 将机械地联系结构和文化变革，旨在打破在一个联盟内建立多样性、公平和包容性 (DEI) 的主要障碍。专业、科学的社团，并作为集体联盟层面变革性文化变革的典范。为了实现这一目标，EVOLVED 将：(1) 制定计划，为代表性不足的群体的成员提供服务（在本提案中广泛用于指来自以下社区的个人）。 (2) 重新构想 CASS 内部的价值观和思维模式，将其文化转变为一个欢迎不同民族和观点的开放论坛，以及 (3) 建立组织基础设施来支持和维持这项工作对 CASS 的文化演变产生了更广泛的影响，包括增加与 CASS 内少数族裔服务机构的接触，将以 DEI 为中心的价值观融入各个 CASS 社会，以及在整个 CASS 集体中采用以 DEI 为中心的政策、管理和保护工作。拟议的活动扩大了环境生物学学科中代表性不足的群体的参与；确保更多不同的声音参与以生物学为重点的政策、保护和规划；并最终促进学科卓越和环境正义。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为是值得的。支持的通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估。