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CBE-LIFE SCIENCES EDUCATION
Volume 19, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.19-11-0262
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- National Institutes of Health [T36-GM008622, R25GM116707]
- NSF [1744098]
- HHMI
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Diversity-focused committees continue to play essential rotes in the efforts of professional scientific societies to foster inclusion and facilitate the professional development of under-represented minority (URM) young scientists in their respective scientific disciplines. Until recently, the efforts of these committees have remained independent and disconnected from one another. Funding from the National Science Foundation has allowed several of these committees to come together and form the Alliance to Catalyze Change for Equity in STEM Success, herein referred to as ACCESS. The overall goat of this meta-organization is to create a community in which diversity-focused committees can interact, synergize, share their collective experiences, and have a unified voice on behalf of URM trainees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. In this Essay, we compare and contrast the broad approaches that scientific societies in ACCESS use to implement and assess their travel award programs for URM trainees. We also report a set of recommendations, including both short- and long-term outcomes assessment in populations of interest and specialized programmatic activities coupled to travel award programs.
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