APS-IDEA: Empowering physics organizations to improve equity, diversity and inclusion

Among STEM disciplines, physics has particularly lagged in including diverse participants across the educational spectrum. The APS-IDEA project, funded in 2019 by the American Physical Society’s Innovation Fund, seeks to empower and support physics departments, laboratories, and collaborations to identify and enact strategies for improving equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) through the creation of a national network of similarly-motivated organizations. The network now includes nearly 100 organizations from the U.S. and around the world which are undertaking the long and difficult tasks necessary for improving EDI. In this talk, I will present some of the research that led me to co-founding the APS-IDEA project (including the STEP UP project – stepupphysics.org), the mission and scope of APS-IDEA, its emerging community of transformation, and future plans for the network. More details about APS-IDEA can be found at Among STEM disciplines, physics has particularly lagged in including diverse participants across the educational spectrum. The APS-IDEA project, funded in 2019 by the American Physical Society’s Innovation Fund, seeks to empower and support physics departments, laboratories, and collaborations to identify and enact strategies for improving equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) through the creation of a national network of similarly-motivated organizations. The network now includes nearly 100 organizations from the U.S. and around the world which are undertaking the long and difficult tasks necessary for improving EDI. In this talk, I will present some of the research that led me to co-founding the APS-IDEA project (including the STEP UP project – stepupphysics.org), the mission and scope of APS-IDEA, its emerging community of transformation, and future plans for the network. More details about APS-IDEA can be found at https://www.aps.org/programs/innovation/fund/idea.cfm.

Host:  Mark Meisel