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

虽然科学社会试图通过几种外展机制来增加多样性，但很明显，需要影响文化的系统性变革才能在科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域实现真正的变革。该项目将开发如何整合和比较生物学学会（SICB），一个专业的科学社会，本质上是综合性的，并专注于早期职业科学家，可以在这种变革性的文化变革中发挥领导作用。为了有效地推动向公众寻求和传播相关和及时的生物知识，SIBB的成员人口统计数据应反映社会的人口统计数据。SICB的目标是通过建立公平，多样性和理解（SICBEDU）计划的变化来加强包容性，以创建一个更加热情和包容的科学社会，这将更加有机地增加社会成员中URG的数量，帮助提高他们作为SICB学科未来研究人员的职业机会。SICB的扩大参与委员会为SICBEDU改变文化的努力取得成功奠定了必要的基础。大量文献表明，除非URG真正感到被纳入并被确认为科学家，否则这些多样性的增加不太可能导致STEM领域的真正文化变革。SICBEDU计划通过向执行委员会提供包容性，多样性，公平性和接受（IDEA）培训来建立SICB IDEA社区，其中包括部门主席，建立一个领导层，使学会的成员参与为每个成员，特别是那些传统上代表性不足的成员，建立一个更加公平和包容的科学家园。拟议的活动将培训领导人，使他们成为成员的榜样，并为实施民主选举所提供必要的工具。此外，SICBEDU将提供以IDEA为中心的发展活动，使未来能够参与领导角色并在社会中建立社区。SICBEDU通过提供基于IDEA的讲习班和重要的社区建设活动，进一步教育和指导现有成员。讲习班和综合活动的目的是促进SICB成员之间的对话，讨论拥有一个多样化社会的好处，并共同努力建立一个欢迎和包容的综合和比较生物学家社区。SICBEDU活动投资于以开创性的方式培训科学家，使未来的STEM学者能够领导将IDEA融入这一科学领域的工作。短期目标是每年将IDEA的知识基础和社会支持增加10%，而长期目标是创造一个欢迎和包容的空间，允许创造力，分享/交流想法，并在不同的成员中解决STEM中的困难解决方案。SICBEDU的活动提供了一个承认复杂的社会问题并利用来自不同背景的不同意见来寻找创新解决方案的途径。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过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而被认为值得支持。

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.