Diversity Equity & Inclusion Reading List
iDigBio’s Education, Outreach, Diversity, and Inclusion team has compiled a reading list of mostly academic literature (i.e., papers and books) related broadly to topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion with a special focus on natural sciences and museums
https://www.idigbio.org/content/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-reading-list-special-emphasis-natural-sciences-and-natural
https://www.idigbio.org/content/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-reading-list-special-emphasis-natural-sciences-and-natural
Resources for Departments
We asked entomologists around North America what their departments are doing to improve inclusivity in entomology. We’ve consolidated all their answers here as a resource for other departments (not just entomology/biology) to use. What can you do in your department this year?
Bring youth into the community
Outreach
- Target schools with representative or diverse populations.
- Target under-represented communities (e.g., native land or predominantly black communities)
- Summer work programs and field courses
Diversify recruitment strategies
Recruit at diverse conferences Correct inequitable recruitment strategies
- Remove GRE requirement while emphasizing personal statement and letters of recommendation (graduate school)
- Value service and pro-diversity activity on CVs
- Advertise positions with Historically Black Colleges and Universities and EntoPOC Job Board
- Berkley rubric for assessment
Supporting programs
- McNair Scholar Program
- LSAMP
- URSA
- POSSE
- SciMed GRS
- McKnicght doctoral fellowship program (Florida only)