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An interdisciplinary committee of experts will develop a cohesive report with recommendations for actionable antiracist mechanisms to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion. The final consensus report will review research and evidence in which racism and bias conditions create systemic barriers and impede STEM careers for historically marginalized racial/ethnic groups; identify principles for sustainable organizational culture change to address racism and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion; synthesize existing research on methods to improve recruitment, retention, and advancement; identify examples of effective strategies to advance anti-racism in STEM organizations; define a research agenda to address gaps to advance anti-racism, diversity/equity, and inclusion.
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Individuals from minoritized racial and ethnic groups continue to face systemic barriers that impede their ability to access, persist, and thrive in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) higher education and workforce. Without actively dismantling policies and practices...
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will appoint an interdisciplinary committee to review the literature on bias and racism in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) workplaces; approaches to increase racial and ethnic diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in STEM organizations (e.g., universities, nonprofit organizations, hospitals, and industry); and offer best policies and practices for DEI and anti-racism initiatives, as well as outline goals for relevant, future research and for organizational strategic planning. The committee's final consensus report will:
- Review the research and evidence from lived experience on the ways in which racism (at the individual level and conditions that create systemic barriers) impedes STEMM careers for historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups;
- Identify the principles for sustainable organizational culture change to address racism and promote DEI; including discussion of the role of training, ways to motivate buy-in at all levels of the STEMM organization, and stay the course in adopting a strategy and goals aimed at addressing racism and its role as a barrier to a STEM career;
- Review and synthesize the existing research on methods to improve the recruitment, retention, and advancement of members of historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups pursuing STEMM careers; and identify promising policies and practices for changing existing systems and structures;
- Identify examples of effective strategies to advance anti-racism in STEMM organizations, including roles for members within organizations; and
- Define a research agenda to address gaps in knowledge in the evidence base to advance anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Sponsors
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Fred Kavli Endowment Fund
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Heising-Simons Foundation
National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
Ralph J. Cicerone and Carol M. Cicerone Endowment for NAS Missions
Rita Allen Foundation
The Shanahan Family Charitable Foundation
Staff
Emily Vargas
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Tina Winters
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Jacqueline L. Cole
Major units and sub-units
Center for Health, People, and Places
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Policy and Global Affairs
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Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
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Board on Higher Education and Workforce
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Social and Economic Systems Program Area
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Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences
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