Being a Self-Advocate When Building Experience
Part of being career ready is knowing how to advocate for yourself. Self-advocacy can bedefined as an “action of representing oneself or one’s views or interests.”
Cultivating Self-Advocacy for All Students on College Campuses
The skill of self-advocacy is not only useful for supporting changes that students want to see in their institutions and beyond: It may be the most important foundational skill behind success in college.
Science facilitation: navigating the intersection of intellectual and interpersonal expertise in scientific collaboration
This essay defines scientific facilitation as a form of interactional expertise and explains how facilitating scientific teams requires skills in managing interpersonal interactions as well as understanding how different types of disciplinary knowledge integrate in the creation of new knowledge. Next, it explains how this science facilitation expertise may be developed through metacognition. Finally, it… Read more »
Working Through Conflict: Strategies for Relationships, Groups, and Organizations
Now in its eighth edition, Working Through Conflict provides an introduction to conflict and conflict management that is firmly grounded in current theory, research, and practice, covering a range of conflict settings (interpersonal, group, and organizational).
Inclusive Practice Glossary for Facilitators
This glossary is intended to be used by facilitators, particularly in the scientific arena when replying to queries or in designing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI or D&I) workshops. Included are terms thatcome up regularly in our work; this is by no means an exhaustive list.
Honor Native Land: A guide and call to acknowledgment
Created in partnership with Native allies and organizations, this guide offers context about the practice of acknowledgment, gives step-by-step instructions for how to begin wherever you are, and provides tips for moving beyond acknowledgment into action.
Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges (TKs) in Climate Change Initiatives
There is increasing recognition of the significance of traditional knowledges (TKs) in relation to climate change. And yet there are potential risks to indigenous peoples in sharing TKs in federal and other non-indigenous climate change initiatives. These guidelines are intended to examine the significance of TKs in relation to climate change and the potential risks… Read more »
How to include Indigenous researchers and their knowledge
Researchers from Native American and Indigenous communities explain how colleagues and institutions can help them to battle marginalization.
Systemic inequalities for LGBTQ professionals in STEM
This study found that LGBTQ STEM professionals were more likely to experience career limitations, harassment, and professional devaluation than their non-LGBTQ peers. They also reported more frequent health difficulties and were more likely to intend to leave STEM.
Creating Inclusive Virtual Spaces
Virtual places of learning and work bring with them new challenges to maintaining inclusive and safe classrooms and workspaces. The rapid shift to virtual learning and working from home for large segments of the population in the US and globally in response to the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted some of these challenges, especially given little time… Read more »
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