DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, ACCESS & Equity Resources

Here are resources that might be of use to you in planning meetings while thinking about diversity, inclusion, access, and equity.  If you have other resources that you like and want to share, please contact us.

ARTICLES

• On Becoming an Anti-Racist University: Principles and recommendations for universities from Black Engineering faculty 

• National Science Foundation 2019 Report on Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering

• #GRExit: Holistic review for graduate admissions

• Advances in Geosciences Special Issue (June 2020) on "Diversity and Equality in the Geosciences"

• EOS article on protecting BIPOC scholars in the field 

Best practices in meetings/conferences:

• EOS article on "Best practices for live captioning presentations"

• Inclusive scientific meetings from 500 Women Scientists (in collaboration with the Earth Science Women's Network)

• Improving conference accessibility for disabled people

• Improving inclusion of parents at meetings from PNAS

• Improving inclusion of LGBTQ+ people from the Creating Change Conference

• General conference inclusion guidelines from Physics World/IOP Publishing

• How to get the most from real-time auto-caption 

Are you hiring?  Check out:

• Isaac, C., Lee, B., & Carnes, M. (2009). Interventions that affect gender bias in hiring: A systematic review.Academic Medicine, 84(10):1440-1446.

• NCWIT Checklist for reducing unconscious bias in job descriptions/advertisements. National Center for Women & Information Technology.

• Tuitt, F.A., Sagaria, M.A.D., & Turner, C.S.V. (2007). Signals and strategies in hiring faculty of color. Higher Education Handbook of Theory and Research XXII, 497-535.

• Effective & Inclusive Remote Interviews for PhD Admissions

Videos, Seminars, PodCast and Online Panels

• The National Academy of Science's Science of Mentorship Podcast

• Kuheli Dutt's seminar on Addressing Systemic Racism in the Geosciences

• YouTube videos from the "Experience of Black STEM in the Ivory: A Call to Disruptive Action".  Access videos from day 1 and day 2

• Videos from first ever Black in Geoscience week (2020)

• Panel on "Race, Class, and Minority-Serving Institutions” from the Chronicle of Higher Education

• Goldschmidt Session on Diversity and Inclusion in the Geosciences – Pitfalls, Unconscious Bias and Practical Solutions

Blogs, Websites, Google Docs, and other resources

• Want to know if your website is accessible? Check out the web-accessible evaluation tool (WAVE).

• Looking to decolonize your geoscience syllabus?  Check out the great work of Geocontext.

• Advancing inclusion and anti-racism in the college classroom: A rubric and resource guide for instructors

• Unlearning racism in geosciences (URGE): lots of great readings

• Still learning about DIA issues?  Check out this glossary.

• Looking for underrepresented speakers?  Consider this list.

• Want to know whose land you're on? Also, here is an example of a thoughtful land acknowledgment.

• So many resources from #ShutDownSTEM

• 10 easy ways to support diversity in academia

• Improving inclusion in classrooms, research groups, and peer-to-peer

• Five AGU blogs on diversity, equity and inclusion

• Shelby Johnston's disability resources Google Doc

• University of Washington DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology): empowering people with disabilities through technology and education

• CAST: universal design for learning 

• Useful tips on accessible links

• Improving the academic workplace for your deaf and hard-of-hearing colleagues

• Two google docs of anti-racism resources: see document one and document two

• The incredible work of ADVANCEGeo addressing exclusion

• Honoring the Whole Student: Developing Space for Native American Students in STEM by Supporting Complex Identities

• Guide for URM in STEM

• Diversescholar.org for resources, readings, and job ads focusing on historically excluded groups

• Stanford University's Meaningful Work Kit: A career assessment tool to help you understand and prioritize what makes you thrive

• Field safety information from Field Futures

Conference Inclusion Goals

• designing a diverse structure of communication that allows for multiple learning and sharing platforms (e.g., lightning talks, think-pair-share, breakout groups, structured networking events, state-of-the-science talks meant for a general audience)

• providing explicit instructions with examples for presenters to employ active learning and equity strategies for prompting participation

• developing assessment instruments for participants so that you can adaptively adjust to our participants’ needs

• using software to allow audience members to anonymously ask questions during talks

• selecting panelists who reflect diverse backgrounds, cultures, sexualities, genders, races, etc., who may be willing and interested in communicating experiences that relate to audience members of diverse backgrounds

• helping participants get to the meeting by providing free parking and transport, options for child care, and a space for breast-feeding mothers to pump 

• selecting meals that are primarily vegetarian, with options for those with allergies or food aversions

• ensuring that conference facilities are accessible, have gender inclusive restrooms, and that all speakers use microphones—even if they think they are loud enough—to help with those who are hard of hearing

• including a place for pronouns on nametags

• asking permission to take photos—with respect to LGBTQ+ identities in particular, not everyone may have disclosed their identity publicly

• making it clear to the audience that the meeting is a learning environment, what harassment policies are and where to report problems, and the expectations for inclusion in the meeting

• designing activities to promote interactions between scientists at similar and different career stages