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，但显而易见的是，要在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域内实现真正的变革，就必须进行影响文化的系统性变革。该项目将开发综合与比较生物学学会(SICB)如何在这种变革性的文化变革中发挥带头作用。为了有效地推动向公众传播相关和及时的生物学知识，SICB的成员人口统计数据应该反映社会的人口统计数据。SICB通过变革加强包容性建设公平、多样性和理解(SICBEDU)计划的目标是创建一个更受欢迎和更具包容性的科学社会，使其在社会成员中更有机地增加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(BP)委员会为这一改变SICBEDU文化的努力的成功奠定了必要的基础。大量文献表明，在URGs真正被纳入和验证为科学家之前，这些多样性的增加不太可能在STEM领域带来真正的文化变化。SICBEDU计划通过向执行委员会提供包容性、多样性、公平性和接受性(IDEA)培训来建立SICB想法社区，该委员会包括分部主席，创造一种领导力，让社会成员参与为每个成员，特别是那些传统上代表不足的成员发展一个更公平和更包容的科学家园。拟议的活动将培训领导力，使其成为成员的榜样，并为实施IDEA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通过提供以想法为基础的研讨会和重要的社区建设活动，进一步教育和指导现有成员。讲习班和综合活动将旨在促进SICB成员之间就拥有一个多样化社会的好处进行对话，并共同努力建立一个由综合生物学家和比较生物学家组成的欢迎和包容的社区。SICBEDU的活动致力于以开创性的方式培训科学家，使未来的STEM学者能够带头将想法融入这一科学领域。短期目标是以每年10%的速度增加社会中的创意知识库和支持，而长期目标是创建一个欢迎和包容的空间，允许创意、分享/交流想法，并在STEM的不同成员中解决困难的解决方案。SICBEDU的活动提供了一种途径，认识到复杂的社会问题，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智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，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.