{"id":2607,"date":"2020-11-11T13:02:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T13:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2020-11-11T13:02:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T13:02:42","slug":"aaas-drafts-plan-to-address-systemic-racism-in-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/aaas-drafts-plan-to-address-systemic-racism-in-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"AAAS drafts plan to address systemic racism in sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Becky Ham<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"p-5\">The American Association for the Advancement of Science has released two parts of a draft plan that directs the organization to strengthen its advocacy on behalf of diversity, equity, and inclusion\u2014while taking a hard look at its own demographics and related policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"p-6\">AAAS&#8217;s \u201cAddressing Systemic Racism in the Sciences\u201d plans were developed by AAAS CEO Sudip Parikh and AAAS leadership, after discussions inside and outside the association prompted by a year that Parikh calls \u201can opportunity born of tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"p-7\">Protests over police brutality against Black people in the United States and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black and brown communities are sharp reminders that no part of society is immune from discrimination, Parikh said. \u201cWe haven&#8217;t yet held a mirror to the scientific enterprise, and we may not like everything we see.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/370\/6516\/541.full\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becky Ham The American Association for the Advancement of Science has released two parts of a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}