Scientific Societies Advancing STEM Workforce Diversity: Lessons and Outcomes from the Minorities Affairs Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology
Scientific Societies Advancing STEM Workforce Diversity: Lessons and Outcomes from the Minorities Affairs Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology
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DOI：
10.1128/jmbe.v21i1.1941
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发表时间：
2020-02-01
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1.9
通讯作者：
Edwards, Ashanti
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作者：
Segarra, Veronica A.;Blatch, Sydella;Edwards, Ashanti
促进STEM学术队伍的多样性和包容性仍然是一项关键挑战和国家优先事项。科学社团可以在这一过程中发挥重要作用，通过创建和实施促进STEM学术劳动力多样化的计划，并通过提供指导和技能发展培训，使来自代表性不足的少数族裔（URM）背景的科学家能够在他们的实践社区中取得成功。在这篇文章中，我们提供了科学协会在这些领域遇到的挑战的例子，并提供了来自美国细胞生物学学会的数据，强调了实习生通过长期参与其项目所获得的好处。这些举措的成功说明了科学社团在支持URM科学家的发展和日益多样化和包容性的STEM学术社区方面的学科特定规划的影响。
Promoting diversity and inclusiveness in the STEM academic workforce remains a key challenge and national priority. Scientific societies can play a significant role in this process through the creation and implementation of programs to foster STEM academic workforce diversification, and by providing mentoring and skills development training that empower scientists from under-represented minority (URM) backgrounds to succeed in their communities of practice. In this article, we provide examples of challenges met by scientific societies in these areas and present data from the American Society for Cell Biology, highlighting the benefits received by trainees through long-term engagement with its programs. The success of these initiatives illustrates the impact of discipline-specific programming by scientific societies in supporting the development of URM scientists and an increasingly diverse and inclusive academic STEM community.