RCN: GOLD-EN: Leadership Academy and Network for Diversity and Inclusion in Geosciences (LANDInG): Building, Developing and Sustaining DEI Leaders

美国地球物理联合会（AGU）将组织一个研究协调网络（RCN），以支持社区和领导力发展工作，目标是建立一个更加多样化和包容性的地球科学工作队伍。领导力可以促进文化转变，研究表明，多样性，公平和包容性（DEI）倡议在最高层的支持下往往更有效。通过实践社区（CoP）和地球科学领域的专业发展来提高DEI领导能力，将填补基础设施方面的空白，以扩大地球科学的参与，并改善整个学科的DEI成果（直接和间接）。地球科学领域的DEI倡导者和领导者缺乏一个用于网络和专业发展的中心社区，阻碍了他们的努力产生更广泛的影响。LANDInG RCN（领导学院和地球科学研究协调网络的多样性和包容性网络）的目标是建立一个可持续的正式和非正式领导人网络，以支持DEI的价值观和实践，发展新的领导者队伍，以实施DEI的努力，扩大地球科学的参与。利用AGU的成员和影响力，与其他地球科学学会合作，该计划将实现四个目标：目标1：为地球科学领域的DEI冠军建立一个可持续的CoP网络，包括一个虚拟平台（LANDInG网站）和面对面的活动，以参与和支持地球科学领域的DEI冠军的广泛代表性，网络，资源共享和专业发展活动。目标二：建立地球科学环境倡议领导者学院，建设地球科学环境倡议工作的循证领导能力，专门满足地球科学界的需求。目标三：创造和促进直接经验的机会，领导地球科学领域的DEI倡议，以进一步确保广泛参与基于证据的文化和组织变革战略，同时扩大对CoP的影响。目标4：提高DEI冠军的知名度和认可度/DEI在地球科学领域的领导价值，扩大参与CoP网络和学院的人的专业知识和成功，以提高DEI冠军和领导者在学科中的认可和价值。变革模式借鉴了跨社会和组织科学的研究和理论，包括关于专业网络/指导的文献，以及实施有效的多样性和领导者培训。制定变革的方法是以证据为基础的，并以高等教育/STEM内基于群体的专业发展国家模式为框架LANDInG在地球科学方面的成果将包括：1）DEI专业发展的新模式; 2）提高DEI领导能力; 3）更广泛和更强大的DEI冠军专业网络; 4）提高对DEI需求的理解; 5）将整个学科的DEI变革的新实践/模式制度化。LANDInG的目标包括1）增加招聘，保留和提高妇女，残疾人，代表性不足的少数民族，以及那些在地球科学中处于这些身份交叉点的人; 2）提高DEI冠军出现和影响地球科学变革的能力; 3）专业协会影响DEI变革和扩大STEM参与的可扩展，可持续的模式;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，被认为值得支持。

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) will organize a Research Coordination Network (RCN) to support community and leadership development efforts with the goal of creating a more diverse and inclusive geoscience workforce. Cultural shifts can be facilitated by leadership, and research indicates that Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives are more often effective when championed from the top. Increasing capacity for DEI leadership through a Community of Practice (CoP) and professional development within the geosciences would fill an infrastructure gap for efforts that broaden participation in the geosciences and improve DEI outcomes (directly and indirectly) across the discipline. DEI champions and leaders in the geosciences lack a central community for networking and professional development, hindering broader impact of their efforts. LANDInG RCN's (Leadership Academy and Network for Diversity and Inclusion in the Geosciences-Research Coordination Network) aim is to develop a sustainable network of formal and informal leaders to champion DEI values and practices, developing cohorts of new leaders to implement DEI efforts that broaden participation across the geosciences. Leveraging the membership and reach of AGU, in partnership with other geoscience societies, the program will achieve four objectives: Objective 1: Implement a sustainable CoP Network for DEI champions in the geosciences, including a virtual platform (The LANDInG Site) and in-person events to engage and support a broad representation of DEI champions within the geosciences in networking, resource-sharing, and professional development activities. Objective 2: Implement a DEI Leader Academy for the geosciences, building capacity for evidence-based leadership of DEI efforts that specifically address the needs of the geoscience community. Objective 3: Create and foster opportunities for direct experience leading DEI initiatives in the geosciences, to further ensure broad engagement with evidence-based strategies for culture and organizational change while broadening impact for the CoP. Objective 4: Raise the visibility and recognition of DEI champions/ the value of DEI leadership in the geosciences amplifying the expertise and successes of those who participate in the CoP Network and Academy to elevate recognition and value of DEI champions and leaders within the discipline. The model for change draws from research and theory spanning social and organizational sciences, including the literatures on professional networks/mentoring, and implementing effective diversity and leader training. The methods for enacting change are evidence-based and framed by national models for cohort-based professional development within higher education/STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).LANDInG's outcomes for geosciences would include: 1) new models for DEI professional development; 2) increased capacity for DEI leadership; 3) broader and stronger professional networks for DEI champions; 4) increased understanding of DEI needs; 5) institutionalization of new practices/models for DEI change across the discipline. LANDInG's goal's include 1) Increased recruitment, retention, and advancement of women, persons with disabilities, underrepresented minorities, and those at the intersections of these identities in the geosciences; 2) Increased capacity for DEI champions to emerge and affect change in the geosciences; 3) Scalable, sustainable models for professional societies to affect DEI change and broaden participation in STEM; 4) enhanced partnerships between academia, associations, industry, and nonprofit organizations; and 5) development of a diverse, globally competitive STEM workforce.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.