Overview of #ShutDownSTEM Activities (2020)

On Wednesday, 6/10/2020, EAPS held a department-wide discussion about antiracism within our department. You can find the agenda, notes, and action items from this discussion on this page. Please read more about #ShutDownSTEM here.

Planning and Agenda

The goals of this workshop were to crystallize the values and stance that EAPS takes on issues relating to anti-Black racism in STEM, and to develop an action plan, both on individual and departmental levels, to meaningfully address those issues.

You can find the planning document, along with agenda items, prior reading, and ground rules and other suggestions for our (volunteer!) discussion leaders can be found here. The slides summarizing the readings are available here.

Summary of Breakout Room Discussions - Resources for Individual Action

• Resources for Self-Education

• Individual Action Plans

Summary of Breakout Room Discussions - Calls for Departmental or Institutional Action

• Open Letter - Undergraduate Students

• Open Letter - Department-wide

• EAPS Action Plan

Thank you

We would like to thank Rob van der Hilst, Taylor Perron, Jen Fentress, Maggie Cedarstrom, Brandon Milardo, and Dave Wright, as well as Lyssa Freese, Lesly Franco, Raphael Rousseau-Rizzi, Noah Anderson, Henri Drake, Mason Rogers, Jonathan Lin, Joanna Millstein, Diana Dumit, and Rose Palermo for their invaluable assistance in planning and taking notes on this event. We also want to thank Kristin Bergmann, Julia Wilcots, Kasturi Shah, Meghana Ranganathan, Margaret Duffy, Mara Freilich, and Rohini Shivamoggi for organizing the discussion.