2021/01/31 by Bree Barnett Dreyfuss, David Marasco · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Best practice #Career Development and Diversity #Conferences and Exhibitions Management #Diversity (politics) #Inclusion (mineral) #International Science and Diplomacy #Order (exchange) #Section (typography) #Special section #physics.ed-ph #physics.soc-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1119/10.0004151
published in The Physics Teacher 59(4), 260-263 (American Association of Physics Teachers) · 9 pages, 3 figures
openalex created_date 2021/01/18 · openalex publication_date 2021/03/31 · arxiv created 2021/06/11 · arxiv updated 2021/06/14 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
While AAPT and many other physics organizations have been introducing a series of effective practices around diversity and inclusion at the national level in recent years, it was wondered if these were being adopted at the local level. It is hoped that section members and section representatives will decide to further expand the actions of national leadership to make their own section meetings more inclusive. In order to assess if this was in fact the case, a survey on diversity practices that have been used at the national level and can be implemented at the section level was sent to AAPT’s section reps’ mailing list in the spring of 2018, with a follow-up survey in winter 2020. Feedback in both cycles suggested that a guide for section leadership would be useful. The Northern California/Nevada Section has made progress in implementing some of the effective practices from the national meetings into our local section meetings, and we share these efforts in the hope that they assist our fellow sections.