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The University of California is the first university system to become a charter member of SEA Change, an initiative of AAAS that supports educational institutions as they systemically transform themselves to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine.
25 February 2021
by: Andrea Korte SEA Change supports institutional transformation in support of diversity, equity and inclusion. | Steve Zylius/UC Irvine SEA Change supports institutional transformation in support of diversity, equity and inclusion. | Steve Zylius/UC Irvine
Arizona State University and the University of California, Irvine, are being recognized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for their commitment to becoming more diverse, inclusive and equitable spaces where the full range of talent can thrive in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine.
The universities will receive the 2021 SEA Change Institutional Bronze Award, which honors institutions for the steps they have taken to make that vision a reality, at a Feb. 25 virtual ceremony.
As a growing chorus of voices calls for systemic change to address the systemic problems of sexism and racism in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM), the SEA Change initiative at the American Association for the Advancement of Science aims to support educational institutions as they transform into diverse, equitable, and inclusive spaces.
SEA (STEMM Equity Achievement) Change was formally launched by AAAS in 2017 but is the culmination of a career s work in the making: that of the initiative s director, Shirley Malcom.
The initiative has its history in the Athena SWAN charter, established in the United Kingdom in 2005 to boost the ranks of women in science, but it also draws upon long-standing collaborations to diversify the scientific enterprise. When Paula Rayman was investigating a home in the United States for an adaptation of Athena SWAN, she knew that Shirley Malcom, with whom she had collaborated on diversity efforts since the 1980s, was the r