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The Inclusive Professional Framework for Societies: Changing Mental Models to Promote Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive STEM Systems Change

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professional societies (ProSs) are uniquely positioned to foster national-level diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) reform. ProSs serve broad memberships, define disciplinary norms and culture, and inform accrediting bodies and thus provide...

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Autores principales: Leibnitz, Gretalyn M., Gillian-Daniel, Donald L., Greenler, Robin M c C., Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca, Metcalf, Heather, Segarra, Verónica A., Peters, Jan W., Patton, Shannon, Lucy-Putwen, Andrea, Sims, Ershela L.
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8900615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35265700
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.784399
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author Leibnitz, Gretalyn M.
Gillian-Daniel, Donald L.
Greenler, Robin M c C.
Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca
Metcalf, Heather
Segarra, Verónica A.
Peters, Jan W.
Patton, Shannon
Lucy-Putwen, Andrea
Sims, Ershela L.
author_facet Leibnitz, Gretalyn M.
Gillian-Daniel, Donald L.
Greenler, Robin M c C.
Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca
Metcalf, Heather
Segarra, Verónica A.
Peters, Jan W.
Patton, Shannon
Lucy-Putwen, Andrea
Sims, Ershela L.
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description Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professional societies (ProSs) are uniquely positioned to foster national-level diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) reform. ProSs serve broad memberships, define disciplinary norms and culture, and inform accrediting bodies and thus provide critical levers for systems change. STEM ProSs could be instrumental in achieving the DEI system reform necessary to optimize engagement of all STEM talent, leveraging disciplinary excellence resulting from diverse teams. Inclusive STEM system reform requires that underlying “mental models” be examined. The Inclusive Professional Framework for Societies (IPF: Societies) is an interrelated set of strategies that can help ProSs change leaders (i.e., “boundary spanners”) and organizations identify and address mental models hindering DEI reform. The IPF: Societies uses four “I's”—Identity awareness and Intercultural mindfulness (i.e., equity mindset) upon which inclusive relationships and Influential DEI actions are scaffolded. We discuss how the IPF: Societies complements existing DEI tools (e.g., Women in Engineering ProActive Network's Framework for Promoting Gender Equity within Organization; Amplifying the Alliance to Catalyze Change for Equity in STEM Success' Equity Environmental Scan Tool). We explain how the IPF: Societies can be applied to existing ProS policy and practice associated with common ProS functions (e.g., leadership, membership, conferences, awards, and professional development). The next steps are to pilot the IPF: Societies with a cohort of STEM ProSs. Ultimately, the IPF: Societies has potential to promote more efficient, effective, and lasting DEI organizational transformation and contribute to inclusive STEM disciplinary excellence.
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spelling pubmed-89006152022-03-08 The Inclusive Professional Framework for Societies: Changing Mental Models to Promote Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive STEM Systems Change Leibnitz, Gretalyn M. Gillian-Daniel, Donald L. Greenler, Robin M c C. Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca Metcalf, Heather Segarra, Verónica A. Peters, Jan W. Patton, Shannon Lucy-Putwen, Andrea Sims, Ershela L. Front Sociol Sociology Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professional societies (ProSs) are uniquely positioned to foster national-level diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) reform. ProSs serve broad memberships, define disciplinary norms and culture, and inform accrediting bodies and thus provide critical levers for systems change. STEM ProSs could be instrumental in achieving the DEI system reform necessary to optimize engagement of all STEM talent, leveraging disciplinary excellence resulting from diverse teams. Inclusive STEM system reform requires that underlying “mental models” be examined. The Inclusive Professional Framework for Societies (IPF: Societies) is an interrelated set of strategies that can help ProSs change leaders (i.e., “boundary spanners”) and organizations identify and address mental models hindering DEI reform. The IPF: Societies uses four “I's”—Identity awareness and Intercultural mindfulness (i.e., equity mindset) upon which inclusive relationships and Influential DEI actions are scaffolded. We discuss how the IPF: Societies complements existing DEI tools (e.g., Women in Engineering ProActive Network's Framework for Promoting Gender Equity within Organization; Amplifying the Alliance to Catalyze Change for Equity in STEM Success' Equity Environmental Scan Tool). We explain how the IPF: Societies can be applied to existing ProS policy and practice associated with common ProS functions (e.g., leadership, membership, conferences, awards, and professional development). The next steps are to pilot the IPF: Societies with a cohort of STEM ProSs. Ultimately, the IPF: Societies has potential to promote more efficient, effective, and lasting DEI organizational transformation and contribute to inclusive STEM disciplinary excellence. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8900615/ /pubmed/35265700 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.784399 Text en Copyright © 2022 Leibnitz, Gillian-Daniel, Greenler, Campbell-Montalvo, Metcalf, Segarra, Peters, Patton, Lucy-Putwen and Sims. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Sociology
Leibnitz, Gretalyn M.
Gillian-Daniel, Donald L.
Greenler, Robin M c C.
Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca
Metcalf, Heather
Segarra, Verónica A.
Peters, Jan W.
Patton, Shannon
Lucy-Putwen, Andrea
Sims, Ershela L.
The Inclusive Professional Framework for Societies: Changing Mental Models to Promote Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive STEM Systems Change
title The Inclusive Professional Framework for Societies: Changing Mental Models to Promote Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive STEM Systems Change
title_full The Inclusive Professional Framework for Societies: Changing Mental Models to Promote Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive STEM Systems Change
title_fullStr The Inclusive Professional Framework for Societies: Changing Mental Models to Promote Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive STEM Systems Change
title_full_unstemmed The Inclusive Professional Framework for Societies: Changing Mental Models to Promote Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive STEM Systems Change
title_short The Inclusive Professional Framework for Societies: Changing Mental Models to Promote Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive STEM Systems Change
title_sort inclusive professional framework for societies: changing mental models to promote diverse, equitable, and inclusive stem systems change
topic Sociology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8900615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35265700
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.784399
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