Education

These educational resources provide background information and readings to address bias, race/ethnicity, gender and ability in academia and the workplace.

• UCLA's website provides videos, readings and resources to both understand and manage implicit bias.
• Victoria Alexander's anti-racist resource guide provides curated, updated resources to explain and solve injustices, particularly racial inequities.
• The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory has provided these guidelines for avoiding implicit bias in letters of recommendation.
• The University of Washington's AccessSTEM project provides resources to help increase the participation of people with disabilities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
• GeoReadingForEquity has compiled a library of resources, tips for discussions and actions to take to improve equity in STEM and the geosciences.
• The National Academy of Engineering’s Center for Engineering Ethics and Society is an online repository of resources on science, engineering and research ethics, for engineers, scientists, educators and students.
• In her presentation, Take Your Humanity with You, Sarah Myhre explains why STEM needs intersectional feminism. (video)
• Vernā Myers' book, What if I Say the Wrong Thing? 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People, encourages more diverse and inclusive workplaces by providing tips and action items that are accessible to employees and team members. 
• Ashley Mardell's book, The ABC's of LGBT+, includes in-depth definitions, personal anecdotes, infographics, links to online videos and more to provide a friendly voice to a community looking for information.

Tools

This list provides tools to take action and establish more diverse and inclusive practices in your workplace or institution.

• AGU's best practices for inclusive remote meetings is a resource describing ways to support inclusive meetings and better assure that remote meetings are successful for all participants. (PDF)
• Better Letters: Equitable Practices (PDF) provides guidance on how to ensure that letters of recommendation are effective tools for enhancing equity.
• The National Museum of African American History and Culture has shared tools and guidance for having meaningful conversations about race.
• “One Black employee’s answer to 'How can I help?'” is a blog post by Alica Forneret describing the actions organizations and institutions can take to support Black employees.
• Fernando T. Maestre's Ten Simple Rules Towards Healthier Research Labs describes 10 practices to improve workplaces and make research labs more welcoming and collaborative environments.
• V. Bala Chaudhary and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe's paper outlines 10 rules to help scientists conducting research in laboratories to develop anti-racist policies to promote racial and ethnic diversity, equity and inclusion.
• The National Center for Professional & Research Ethics' resources for leading different types of groups provide readings, tips and videos on leadership development to encourage more diverse and welcoming academic environments.
• This webinar video from the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities, Higher Education Recruitment Consortium and Association of Public & Land-grant Universities provides promising practices for hiring diverse faculty.
• Abigail J. Stewart and Virginia Valian's article, Recruiting Diverse and Excellent New Faculty, outlines how deans, department chairs and academic search committees can recruit more diverse faculty members.
• An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence, a book from The MIT Press, describes how colleges and universities can achieve their goals of greater diversity and inclusion on campus.
• The NSF and University Corporation for Atmospheric Research's Geoscience Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity program funds five pilot projects that work to increase the participation and belonging of underrepresented groups within STEM.
• AccessComputing's guidelines for accessible remote meetings outlines practices to incorporate in voice-only teleconferences to ensure participants with disabilities can actively engage in the conversation.
• 500 Women Scientists' Resources for addressing Racism / Support for #BlackLivesMatter, dos and don’ts lists social media resources, books and other readings, as well as actions to take to advocate against systemic racism.
• Vernā Myers' presentation, How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them, provides tips to address implicit biases to become advocates and allies in combating systemic racism. (video)
• Kevin G. McDonald's training video includes promising practices for organizations and institutions to implement to increase diversity and inclusion.
• This panel discussion video presents the freely available Antiracism Toolkit, developed for colleagues who want to become allies and advance inclusivity and equity within the scholarly publishing community.
• The Women in STEM resource guide contains useful information on demographics, history and areas of attention to help address gender equality and representation in STEM fields. 

Surveys

Listed below is an example of a diversity dashboard, as well as surveys that can help you implement a study of the environment at the departmental level or the institutional level in order to inform best practices in your workplace.

• The Administrator-Researcher Campus Climate Collaborative (ARC3) campus climate survey provides guidance for requesting and conducting a campus survey.
• The National Center for Professional & Research Ethics' Survey of Organizational Research Climate (SOURCE) outlines how to implement a departmental survey for academic leadership development.
• Cornell University has an example of a diversity dashboard, which shows information about university constituencies, as well as findings from a student climate survey on diversity.

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