Creating inclusive workspaces that foster and support BAJEDI leaders in the Big Ten Academic Alliance of geoscientists

该奖项的全部或部分资金来自《2021年美国救援计划法案》(公法117-2)。该项目将促进对地球科学学术界阻碍多样性领军者发展的障碍的了解，并帮助确定战略，以在俄亥俄州立大学和更广泛的十大学术联盟(BTAA)创造和维持一批地球科学领域的多样性领导者。PI将组织一系列由社会和行为科学专家大力参与的地球科学家会议，以创建和管理机构气候调查，着眼于基于结果的行动计划，培养地球科学方面的BAJED1教职员工，并为即将进入就业市场的研究生和博士后提供BAJED1方面的专业发展培训。研究表明，多样性激发创新，代表性不足的群体产生更高的科学新颖率。然而，存在一个创新-多样性悖论，因为使科学组织多样化的代表性不足的群体在学术界的职业生涯不太成功(Hofstra等人)。2020)。尤其是地球科学在建立一个不同学者的包容性社区方面继续落后于其他科学、技术和经济领域。该项目的主要目标是创建注重成果的实施，重点是培训和支持俄亥俄州立大学和更广泛的十大学术联盟(BTAA)的BAJEDI(归属获取正义、公平多样性包容)领导人。本项目概述的活动将解决两个关键问题。(1)地球科学学术界存在哪些障碍阻碍了多样性领军者的发展？(2)可以采用什么战略来创建和维持一批多样性领导者，以最大限度地发挥集体影响？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。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).This project will advance knowledge of the barriers within geoscience academia that prevent the development of diversity champions, and help identify strategies to create and sustain cohorts of diversity leaders in geoscience at The Ohio State University and the wider Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA). The PI will organize a set of convenings of geoscientists with strong engagement from social and behavioral science experts to create and administer institutional climate surveys with an eye towards results-based action plans, developing BAJED1 faculty leaders in the geosciences, and providing professional development training in BAJED1 for graduate students and postdocs who will soon be on the job market.Studies have demonstrated that diversity sparks innovation with underrepresented groups producing higher rates of scientific novelty. Yet, there is an innovation-diversity paradox because the underrepresented groups that diversify scientific organizations have less successful careers within academia (Hofstra et al. 2020). Geoscience in particular continues to lag behind other STEM fields in creating an inclusive community of diverse scholars. The main objective of this project is the creation of results-based implementation that focuses on training and support of BAJEDI (Belonging Access Justice Equity Diversity Inclusion) leaders at Ohio State and the broader Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA). The activities outlined in this project will address two key questions. (1) What barriers exist within geoscience academia that prevent the development of diversity champions? (2) What strategies could be employed to create and sustain cohorts of diversity leaders to maximize collective impact?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.