Broadening Participation Committee

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Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

This LTER page includes a description of the Broadening Participation Committee’s function, activities, and membership.

Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

The Fieldwork Initiative

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Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

The Fieldwork Initiative is a grassroots network of over 3,500 students and researchers facing trauma, unsafe conditions, or sexual harassment and assault during research fieldwork. The Fieldwork Initiative seeks to maintain a network for victims who have struggled with gendered violence while conducting research and to proliferate pre-fieldwork training seminars that break open the blackbox of data collection.

Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

What is Bias

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Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

This page defines bias (explicit and implicit) microaggressions, and then aggregates resources on bias in sciences general and geosciences specifically. The page also shares resources on how implicit bias affects self-perception.

Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

The Irony of Inclusion and Accessibility Statements

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Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

Article from Inside Higher Education, which calls for faculty to rethink their inclusion and accessibility statements in their syllabi which points to several elements beyond the content to focus on.

Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

The misuse of colour in science communication

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Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

This publication details how commonly used color maps distort perception for all readers and how they may make visualizations unreadable or misleading for those with color vision deficiencies. The artilce includes recommendations for improved color mappings.

Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

MCR Code Conduct

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Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

The Moorea Coral Reef (MCR) LTER site code of conduct.

Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

Jornada Basin LTER Code of Ethics

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Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

Jornada Basin LTER Code of Ethics including their code of conduct.

Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

Invisible Labor

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Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

An Inside Higher Education article about the exploitation of scholars through inequities in labor in academia (cultural taxation) for faculty of color and gives career advice centered on ways to minimize the burden.

Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

Black Women in the Ivory Tower

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Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.

This book provides scholars with a historical lens from which to view the higher education of Black women.

Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.