“We need a multitude of approaches, and we need to do them strongly and meaningfully.”
. The 359-page report includes 12 recommendations for leaders who want to foster change. “There is no magic bullet; there's no one single answer,” said Gilda Barabino, president of the Olin College of Engineering and co-chair of the committee that wrote the report, in a webinar today.
Thomas, a leader of the National Research Mentoring Network funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health —calls for institutions to take steps to boost the number of people from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine . It also urges institutions to adopt policies and cultural practices that foster a sense of belonging. “We need to move beyond diversity into inclusion,” says Mica Estrada, an author of the report and a professor at the University of California, San Francisco.
Other recommendations urge institutions to look for patterns of bias in data on hiring, promotion, graduate admissions, and awards; to examine gaps in pay and professional development opportunities between different racial and ethnic groups; and to conduct regular culture audits to assess the working conditions and environment.
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