Diversity and Inclusion

Enhancing diversity, within nuclear astrophysics and the field of physics at large, is an important goal of JINA-CEE. We strive for a culture of inclusivity and a welcoming environment to attract the best talent from around the nation and world. Diversity is therefore a goal in all center activities including research, education, and public outreach. As a multi-institutional center, we aim to build on diversity enhancing resources, programs, and processes at the various participating institutions and complement and connect them in new and innovative ways. JINA-CEE will continue to build upon the success of JINA in recruiting and retaining a higher than average fraction of female researchers at the junior and senior levels.

We encourage you to explore the tools, resources, data, and research below that we found to be helpful for rising awareness, and for creating a diverse and inclusive research and teaching environment in nuclear astrophysics.

 

Why Diversity?

How Diversity Makes Us Smarter

 

Why Inclusion?

Sense of belonging matters

 

Tools for Inclusive Advising/Mentoring/Teaching

• Take the implicit bias test to see if you associate one gender more with science
• Mentoring Tips from Science
• After writing a recommendation letter, switch all pronouns and reread it. More tips from U Arizona
• Pay attention to dynamics during group meetings. Are some members interrupted more than others? Are ideas being attributed to the correct person? Record one or two meetings and listen for instances. More tips from Brown University
• Inclusive Teaching
• Encourage women and under represented minorities (including yourself if applicable) to sign up for APS speaker lists
• Presenting tips

 

Hiring: Best Practices and Resources

• AURA guide to recruiting and hiring
• AURA pamphlet on unconscious bias
• UC Berkeley Guide to recruiting graduate students

 

Conference Organizing: Best Practices and Resources

• Conference Speaker Gender Balance
• Use the JINA-CEE Conference Code of Conduct and have participants acknowledge it

 

Data

• 2014 AIP Report on African Americans and Hispanics
• 2017 NSF Report Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
• AIP Women in Physics and Astronomy (multiple reports and data)
  
  

Research

• LGBT Climate in Physics Report
• Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines
• Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students
• Faculty Service Loads and Gender
• Gender and Letters of Recommendation for Academia
• Student evaluations of physics teachers: On the stability and persistence of gender bias
• Student Bias in Teacher Evaluations (online courses)
• Quantitative Evaluation of Gender Bias in Astronomical Publications from Citation Counts
• The Effect of Instructor Race and Gender on Student persistence in STEM Fields
• Women in physics: A comparison to STEM over four decades
• Women and men’s career choices in astronomy and astrophysics
• Motivational pathways to STEM Career Choices

 

More: External Lists of Best Practices and/or Resources

• Inclusive Astronomy: The Nashville Recommendations
• APS Women in Physics
• APS Minorities in Physics
• AAS Committee on Minorities in Astronomy
• AstroBetter Wiki of Collected resources
• Advancing a Respectful and Caring Community: Learning by doing at MIT

 

Programs that work

• APS Bridge program
• Posse Foundation

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