A Model for Crafting Diversity, Inclusion, Respect, and Equity (DIRE) Policy Statements Toward Catalyzing Organizational Change

Authors

Carolyn Gentle-Genitty, Butler UniversityFollow
Breanca Merrit, Indiana University - Indianapolis
Ann C. Kimble-Hill, Indiana University - Indianapolis

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2021

Abstract

In light of the Black Lives Matter movement, the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) community has had to reflect on how their organizations can address their disparities in identity representation. To that end, the ACS Committee on Minority Affairs (CMA) has been called upon to advise various levels of the chemistry enterprise in their interventions, such as structured and actionable policy statements. As a result, this work was created to provide a model for all organizations to write catalytic diversity, inclusion, respect, and equity (DIRE) policy statements. The model herein acknowledges active tensions and leverages theory, analysis, and practical experiences in an eight-sentence structure completed in four steps. It also provides criteria for evaluating and updating existing statements.

DOI

https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.0c01533?ref=pdf

Comments

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International). This article was originally published in ACS Central Science, 2022, Volume 13. The original publication can be found here.

Recommended Citation

Gentle-Genitty, Carolyn, Breanca Merrit, and Ann C. Kimble-Hill. 2021. “A Model for Crafting Diversity, Inclusion, Respect, and Equity (DIRE) Policy Statements Toward Catalyzing Organizational Change.” ACS Central Science 7(3):383–91. doi:10.1021/acscentsci.0c01533.