Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at AGU:  New Leadership Commitments and Progress Under an Updated Strategic Plan  

Author(s):  
Billy Williams ◽  
Margaret Fraiser ◽  
Lisa White ◽  
Pranoti Asher ◽  
Brooks Hanson

<p>The American Geophysical Union (AGU), a global scientific society of >60,000 members, has a series of initiatives underway to address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Earth and space sciences, including the well-known issues of harassment and its impact on women scientists, and the closely related issues of systemic racism, sexism, ableism, discrimination against LGBTQ community, and their related intersectional issues. Building on its earlier work of establishing an updated AGU Ethics Policy which defines harassment and discrimination as scientific misconduct, AGU has taken additional significant steps over the past 12 months to further advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) practices— including work lead by the AGU Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee to launch a public facing AGU D&I dashboard, steps under the updated AGU Strategic plan to provide additional resources for supporting a more equitable and inclusive culture, and work and commitments by AGU leadership to address systemic racism through its “Eight Deliberate Steps.”  This presentation will highlight new AGU DEI-related initiatives most recently underway, including the role of partnerships in helping to achieve the broader DEI culture change objectives, and the associated work across AGU Meetings, Publications, and Honors. Progress to date on these and other emerging new AGU Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI)-related resources and partnership initiatives, including metrics to track the impact of these changes, will be discussed.</p>

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Billy Williams ◽  
Brooks Hanson ◽  
Robin Bell

<p>The American Geophysical Union, a scientific society of > 60,000 members worldwide, has undertaken strategic initiatives over the past twenty-four months, to help spotlight and address important issues around ethics, diversity and inclusion.  Most recently, this work has focused on building partnerships and a unique coalition of societies to help extend and promote leading ethics and diversity practices across STEM. These recent advancements build on AGU’s earlier work of establishing an updated AGU Ethics Policy which defines sexual harassment as scientific misconduct and its more recent adoption of an updated AGU Diversity and Inclusion Strategic plan – providing a vision and roadmap for AGU to operate as a model organization for advancing diversity and inclusion in science.</p><p>This presentation will review AGU global demographics considerations, highlight key features of the AGU Diversity and Inclusion Strategic plan, and will include an update on key programmatic work and unique resources provided through the AGU Ethics and Equity Center and its partner organizations. AGU’s role in the formation of a consortium of more than 120 scientific societies to help leverage D&I-related leading practices and influence culture change—will also be discussed, including progress to date, preliminary program metrics, and remaining challenges and opportunities.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (209) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Victor Lima De Queiroz

The purpose of this article is to analyze the role of Endomarketing in the construction of the work atmosphere. It will be investigated the impact that investments or lack of investments in Endomarketing actions create regarding to employee's perception of their work environment and the interpersonal relationships within the organization . The author intends to focus specifically on how issues of diversity and inclusion can affect positively and / or negatively the professional and interpersonal development of employees and, consequently, be reflected on the team and company results. It will discussed the issues involving the subject and the impact of his/her social spheres in the relationship between the co-workers and in professional performance, the role of managers in mediating these aspects will be taken in consideration as well.


2020 ◽  
pp. 016344372096092
Author(s):  
Clive James Nwonka

This article addresses the role of data in the analysis of racial diversity in the UK film industry. Due to the prolonged poor representation of racial difference, academic researchers increasingly identify the UK film sector as a particular site of multi-dimensional structural inequalities. This article will assess the impact of data-led interventions made by the UK film industry to increase the presence of BAME individuals within the sector. It will do this through an analysis of the policy approach of the UK’s lead body for film, the British Film Institute, examining how one major policy initiative, the BFI’s Diversity Standards launched in 2016 as an industry intervention into prevailing sector inequalities, has sought to achieve racial diversity and inclusion across its Film Fund-supported film productions between 2016 and 2019. Analysing cross-sectional data from 235 films which is aggregated across differing film genres, budgets and regions, the study assesses how the outcomes of the Diversity Standards have offered a representation of racial diversity across these production areas.


Eos ◽  
2017 ◽  
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S. K. Satheesh was awarded the 2017 Devendra Lal Memorial Medal at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 13 December 2017 in New Orleans, La. The medal is for “outstanding Earth and/or space sciences research by a scientist belonging to and working in a developing nation.”


Eos ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
Author(s):  

Andrew C. Revkin received the 2015 Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 16 December 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes "a journalist or team of journalists who have made significant, lasting, and consistent contributions to accurate reporting on the Earth and space sciences for the general public."


Eos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  

Roberta Marie Johnson received the 2016 Athelstan Spilhaus Award at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 14 December 2016 in San Francisco, Calif. The award honors an individual "for their enhancement of the public engagement with Earth and space sciences."


Eos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  

Alexandra Witze received the 2016 David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism–News at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 14 December 2016 in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes "a journalist for a news story or series in any medium except books that makes information about the Earth and space sciences accessible and interesting to the general public."


Eos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
Author(s):  

Richard Monastersky received the 2017 Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 13 December 2017 in New Orleans, La. The award honors “a journalist or team of journalists who have made significant, lasting, and consistent contributions to accurate reporting on the Earth and space sciences for the general public."


Eos ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
Author(s):  

Holly Gilbert received the Athelstan Spilhaus Award at the 2015 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 16 December 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. The award honors an individual "for their enhancement of the public engagement with Earth and space sciences."


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