RCN: LEAPS Realizing Inclusion in Societies for Environmental Biology (RISE)

专业科学协会为提高STEM的多样性、公平性和包容性（DEI）所做的努力，传统上侧重于从代表性不足的群体中招募个人的计划。虽然这些计划取得了一些成功，但环境生物学社会的人口统计和文化基本保持不变。因此，本规划提案中的协会将侧重于领导力，审查社会内部的权力结构，并探索创造包容性环境的最佳做法。社会领导人将接受培训和工具，以帮助他们识别和消除社会中的结构性障碍，以创造文化变革。通过这一合作提案，每个学会将从其过去和当前的努力中汲取经验，围绕改变社会文化的最佳做法建立共识和知识交流。该项目旨在通过培养学会领导人识别和消除社会结构性障碍的能力，在专业学会中营造包容性环境。该项目的参与者包括三个环境生物学学会（美国生态学会，淡水科学学会，野生动物学会）和三个致力于扩大STEM中代表性不足群体的参与的学会（美国印第安人高等教育联盟;农业，自然资源和相关科学少数民族学会;以及促进墨西哥裔/西班牙裔和美洲原住民科学学会）。这些协会的领导人将参加旨在加强合作关系的活动，同时建设他们的能力，以确定和消除融入专业协会的结构性障碍，包括：（1）领导人峰会-定期召开会议，以建立关系和信任，讨论成功和挑战，参加培训并确定现有方案之间的协同作用，（2）在合作伙伴会议上的沉浸式体验-社会领导者将积极参与会议，重点是扩大参与，以加强社会伙伴关系，同时提高领导者的文化能力，和（3）AAAS SEA Change STEM专业协会DEI自我评估-这些学会将利用这一工具来确定那些阻碍其计划纳入的政策和程序，并共同努力制定解决方案。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并被认为值得通过以下方式予以支持：使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估。

Professional scientific society efforts to improve diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in STEM have traditionally focused on programs for recruitment of individuals from underrepresented groups. While these programs have achieved some success, the demographics and culture of Environmental Biology societies remain largely unchanged. Therefore, the societies on this planning proposal will focus on leadership, examining the power structures within societies and exploring best practices to create inclusive environments. Society leaders will receive training and tools to help them identify and remove structural barriers in their societies to create cultural change. Through this collaborative proposal, each of the societies will bring insight from their past and current efforts, building towards a shared understanding and intellectual exchange around best practices for changing the culture of societies.This project aims to cultivate an inclusive environment in professional societies by building capacity of leaders of societies to identify and to dismantle structural barriers in societies. Participants in this project include three Environmental Biology societies (Ecological Society of America, Society for Freshwater Sciences, The Wildlife Society) and three societies dedicated to broadening participation of underrepresented groups in STEM (American Indian Higher Education Consortium; Society for Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences; and the Society for Advancing Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science). Leaders from these societies will participate in activities designed to strengthen collaborative relationships while building their capacity to identify and remove structural barriers to inclusion in professional societies, including: (1) Leadership Summits – regular convenings to build relationships and trust, to discuss successes and challenges, and to participate in training and identify synergies between existing programs, (2) Immersive Experiences at Partner Conferences –society leaders will actively contribute to conferences focused on broadening participation to strengthen society partnerships while boosting cultural competency of leaders, and (3) AAAS SEA Change STEMM Professional Societies DEI Self-Assessment – the societies will utilize this tool to identify policies and procedures that create barriers to inclusion in their programs and work together to develop 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.