In addition, EHR staff highlighted several funding opportunities for working to increase equity: Racial Equity in STEM Education, Advancing Innovation and Impact in Undergraduate STEM Education at Two-year Institutions, and Supplemental Funding for Postdoctoral Researchers to Mitigate COVID-19 Impacts on Research Career Progression. This conversation included a presentation on NSF and federal agency efforts overall, such as the Biden executive order on racial equity, missing millions of underrepresented persons in the STEM workforce in the National Science Board’s Vision 2030, and a recent report from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering. The committee members heard from EHR staff on aligning agency-wide efforts to broaden participation. Freeman Optional School Ada Monzon, founder and president of the board of directors for EcoExploratorio: Museo de Ciencias de Puerto Rico Becky Wai-Ling Packard, professor of psychology and education at Mount Holyoke College and Nicole Smith, research professor and chief economist for the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. The meeting kicked off with a welcome of new members to the committee, including Tom Brock, director of the Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University Melissa Collins, second-grade teacher at the John P. The meeting agenda included a range of topics that focused on initiatives with the goal of increasing racial equity in STEM, ways to evaluate NSF’s programs for broadening participation, and rebranding EHR. On May 26–27, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Education and Human Resources (EHR) Advisory Committee held its spring meeting.
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