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Scientific Societies Advancing STEM Workforce Diversity: Lessons and Outcomes from the Minorities Affairs Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology

Promoting diversity and inclusiveness in the STEM academic workforce remains a key challenge and national priority. Scientific societies can play a significant role in this process through the creation and implementation of programs to foster STEM academic workforce diversification, and by providing...

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Autores principales: Segarra, Verónica A., Blatch, Sydella, Boyce, Michael, Carrero-Martinez, Franklin, Aguilera, Renato J., Leibowitz, Michael J., Zavala, MariaElena, Hammonds-Odie, Latanya, Edwards, Ashanti
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Publicado: American Society of Microbiology 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7148148/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32313596
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v21i1.1941
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author Segarra, Verónica A.
Blatch, Sydella
Boyce, Michael
Carrero-Martinez, Franklin
Aguilera, Renato J.
Leibowitz, Michael J.
Zavala, MariaElena
Hammonds-Odie, Latanya
Edwards, Ashanti
author_facet Segarra, Verónica A.
Blatch, Sydella
Boyce, Michael
Carrero-Martinez, Franklin
Aguilera, Renato J.
Leibowitz, Michael J.
Zavala, MariaElena
Hammonds-Odie, Latanya
Edwards, Ashanti
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description Promoting diversity and inclusiveness in the STEM academic workforce remains a key challenge and national priority. Scientific societies can play a significant role in this process through the creation and implementation of programs to foster STEM academic workforce diversification, and by providing mentoring and skills development training that empower scientists from under-represented minority (URM) backgrounds to succeed in their communities of practice. In this article, we provide examples of challenges met by scientific societies in these areas and present data from the American Society for Cell Biology, highlighting the benefits received by trainees through long-term engagement with its programs. The success of these initiatives illustrates the impact of discipline-specific programming by scientific societies in supporting the development of URM scientists and an increasingly diverse and inclusive academic STEM community.
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spelling pubmed-71481482020-04-20 Scientific Societies Advancing STEM Workforce Diversity: Lessons and Outcomes from the Minorities Affairs Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology Segarra, Verónica A. Blatch, Sydella Boyce, Michael Carrero-Martinez, Franklin Aguilera, Renato J. Leibowitz, Michael J. Zavala, MariaElena Hammonds-Odie, Latanya Edwards, Ashanti J Microbiol Biol Educ Articles Promoting diversity and inclusiveness in the STEM academic workforce remains a key challenge and national priority. Scientific societies can play a significant role in this process through the creation and implementation of programs to foster STEM academic workforce diversification, and by providing mentoring and skills development training that empower scientists from under-represented minority (URM) backgrounds to succeed in their communities of practice. In this article, we provide examples of challenges met by scientific societies in these areas and present data from the American Society for Cell Biology, highlighting the benefits received by trainees through long-term engagement with its programs. The success of these initiatives illustrates the impact of discipline-specific programming by scientific societies in supporting the development of URM scientists and an increasingly diverse and inclusive academic STEM community. American Society of Microbiology 2020-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7148148/ /pubmed/32313596 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v21i1.1941 Text en ©2020 Author(s). Published by the American Society for Microbiology This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ and https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode), which grants the public the nonexclusive right to copy, distribute, or display the published work.
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Zavala, MariaElena
Hammonds-Odie, Latanya
Edwards, Ashanti
Scientific Societies Advancing STEM Workforce Diversity: Lessons and Outcomes from the Minorities Affairs Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology
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