Collaborative Research: Design: Strengthening Inclusion by Change in Building Equity, Diversity and Understanding (SICBEDU) in Integrative Biology

合作研究：设计：通过改变综合生物学中的公平、多样性和理解（SICBEDU）来加强包容性

• 批准号: 2335235
• 负责人: Brian Tsukimura
• 金额: $ 44.38万
• 依托单位: California State University-Fresno Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-15 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2335235&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Design; Strengthening; Inclusion

While scientific societies have tried to increase diversity through several outreach mechanisms, it has become abundantly clear that systemic changes that impact culture are required to effect true change within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. This project will develop how the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), a professional scientific society that is inherently integrative and focused on early career scientists, can lead the way in such transformative cultural changes. To be effective in advancing the pursuit and dissemination of relevant and timely biological knowledge to the public, membership demographics in SICB should reflect that of society. The goal of SICB’s Strengthening Inclusion by Change in Building Equity, Diversity and Understanding (SICBEDU) program is to create a more welcoming and inclusive scientific society that will more organically grow the number of URGs within the membership of the society, helping to enhance their career opportunities as future researchers within SICB disciplines. SICB’s Broadening Participation (BP) Committee has laid the necessary foundation for the success of this culture changing SICBEDU effort. A preponderance of literature suggests that until URGs feel truly included and validated as scientists these increases in diversity are unlikely to lead to true cultural change within STEM fields.SICBEDU plans to build a SICB IDEA community by providing Inclusive, Diversity, Equity, and Acceptance (IDEA) training to the executive committee, which includes division chairs, creating a leadership that engages the society's membership in developing a more equitable and inclusive scientific home for each member, especially those that are traditionally underrepresented. The proposed activities will train leadership such that they become role models for members and provide the necessary tools to implement IDEA. Additionally, SICBEDU will provide development activities centered around IDEA to enable future participation in leadership roles and build community within the society. SICBEDU further educates and guides current members by providing IDEA-based workshops plus important community-building activities. Workshops and integrative activities will be aimed at promoting dialogue among SICB members about the benefits of having a diverse society and working together to build a welcoming and inclusive community of integrative and comparative biologists. SICBEDU activities are invested in training scientists in pioneering ways that will enable future STEM scholars to lead the charge for integrating IDEA into this field of science. The short-term goal is to increase the IDEA knowledge base and support in the society by 10% a year, while the long-term goal is to create a welcoming and inclusive space that allows for creativity, sharing/exchanging ideas, and addresses difficult solutions in STEM amongst the diverse membership. SICBEDU activities provide an avenue that acknowledges complex societal problems and utilizes diverse opinions from different backgrounds to find innovative solutions.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.

尽管科学社会试图通过几种外展机制来提高多样性，但绝对清楚地表明，需要影响文化的系统性变化以实现科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域的真正变化。该项目将发展综合和比较生物学协会（SICB），这是一个专业的科学社会，其本质上融合并着重于早期职业科学家，可以领导这种变革性的文化变化。为了有效地向公众推进相关和及时的生物学知识的追求和传播，SICB的会员人口应该反映出社会的成员。 SICB通过改变建筑公平，多样性和理解（Sicbedu）计划加强包容的目的是创建一个更受欢迎和包容性的科学社会，该社会将在社会成员中更有机地增加URG的数量，从而帮助他们在SICB学科中作为未来研究人员的未来研究人员增强他们的职业机会。 SICB扩大参与（BP）委员会为改变Sicbedu努力的成功奠定了必要的基础。文学的优势表明，直到乌尔格（URG）感到真正地包含和验证，因为科学家这些增加的多样性不太可能导致真正的文化变化。传统上代表性不足。拟议的活动将培训领导力，使其成为成员的榜样，并提供实施思想的必要工具。此外，Sicbedu将提供围绕思想的发展活动，以使未来的领导角色参与并在社会内建立社区。 Sicbedu通过提供基于思想的研讨会以及重要的社区建设活动来进一步的教育，并指导现有成员。讲习班和综合活动将旨在促进SICB成员之间的对话，讨论拥有多样化的社会并共同建立一个综合和比较生物学家的欢迎和包容性社区。 Sicbedu的活动投资用于以开创性的方式培训科学家，这将使未来的STEM学者领导将思想融入这一科学领域的指控。短期目标是将社会的想法知识基础和支持增加10％，而长期目标是创建一个受欢迎的包容性空间，以创造性，共享/交流思想，并解决潜水员成员中STEM的困难解决方案。 Sicbedu的活动提供了一条途径，可以承认复杂的社会问题，并利用来自不同背景的潜水意见来找到创新的解决方案。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响评估标准来通过评估来表示赞成支持。