Scientific Societies Fostering Inclusive Scientific Environments through Travel Awards: Current Practices and Recommendations

Autor/inn/en	Segarra, Verónica A.; Vega, Leticia R.; Primus, Clara; Etson, Candice; Guillory, Ashley N.; Edwards, Ashanti; Flores, Sonia C.; Fry, Catherine; Ingram, Susan L.; Lawson, Mark; McGee, Richard; Paxson, Stephanie; Phelan, Laura; Suggs, Kirsta; Vuong, Elizabeth; Hammonds-Odie, Latanya; Leibowitz, Michael J.; Zavala, MariaElena; Lujan, J. Luis; Ramirez-Alvarado, Marina
Titel	Scientific Societies Fostering Inclusive Scientific Environments through Travel Awards: Current Practices and Recommendations
Quelle	In: CBE - Life Sciences Education, 19 (2020) 2, (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1931-7913
DOI	10.1187/cbe.19-11-0262
Schlagwörter	Professional Associations; Inclusion; Travel; Scientists; Professional Development; Disproportionate Representation; Committees; Diversity; Minority Groups; Conferences (Gatherings); Social Networks; Communities of Practice; Costs; Sense of Community; Program Implementation; Financial Support + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Inklusion; Travelling; Reisen; Reise; Scientist; Wissenschaftler; Committee; Ausschuss; Ethnische Minderheit; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Community; Cost; Kosten; Finanzielle Förderung
Abstract	Diversity-focused committees continue to play essential roles in the efforts of professional scientific societies to foster inclusion and facilitate the professional development of underrepresented minority (URM) young scientists in their respective scientific disciplines. Until recently, the efforts of these committees have remained independent and disconnected from one another. Funding from the National Science Foundation has allowed several of these committees to come together and form the Alliance to Catalyze Change for Equity in STEM Success, herein referred to as ACCESS. The overall goal of this meta-organization is to create a community in which diversity-focused committees can interact, synergize, share their collective experiences, and have a unified voice on behalf of URM trainees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. In this Essay, we compare and contrast the broad approaches that scientific societies in ACCESS use to implement and assess their travel award programs for URM trainees. We also report a set of recommendations, including both short- and long-term outcomes assessment in populations of interest and specialized programmatic activities coupled to travel award programs. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01