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


Journal

Journal of microbiology & biology education
ISSN: 1935-7877
Titre abrégé: J Microbiol Biol Educ
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101543341

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2020
Historique:
received: 29 09 2019
accepted: 15 11 2019
entrez: 22 4 2020
pubmed: 22 4 2020
medline: 22 4 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

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.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32313596
doi: 10.1128/jmbe.v21i1.1941
pii: jmbe-21-8
pmc: PMC7148148
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Subventions

Organisme : NIGMS NIH HHS
ID : T34 GM008395
Pays : United States

Informations de copyright

©2020 Author(s). Published by the American Society for Microbiology.

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Auteurs

Verónica A Segarra (VA)

Minorities Affairs Committee, American Society for Cell Biology, Bethesda, MD 20814.
Department of Biology, High Point University, High Point, NC 27268.

Sydella Blatch (S)

Minorities Affairs Committee, American Society for Cell Biology, Bethesda, MD 20814.
American Society for Cell Biology, Bethesda, MD 20852.

Michael Boyce (M)

Minorities Affairs Committee, American Society for Cell Biology, Bethesda, MD 20814.
Department of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710.

Franklin Carrero-Martinez (F)

Minorities Affairs Committee, American Society for Cell Biology, Bethesda, MD 20814.
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC 20001.

Renato J Aguilera (RJ)

Minorities Affairs Committee, American Society for Cell Biology, Bethesda, MD 20814.
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968.

Michael J Leibowitz (MJ)

Minorities Affairs Committee, American Society for Cell Biology, Bethesda, MD 20814.
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616.

MariaElena Zavala (M)

Minorities Affairs Committee, American Society for Cell Biology, Bethesda, MD 20814.
Department of Biology, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA 91330.

Latanya Hammonds-Odie (L)

Minorities Affairs Committee, American Society for Cell Biology, Bethesda, MD 20814.
Department of Biology, School of Science and Technology, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA 30043.

Ashanti Edwards (A)

Minorities Affairs Committee, American Society for Cell Biology, Bethesda, MD 20814.
American Society for Cell Biology, Bethesda, MD 20852.

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