Policies and Practices to Improve the Chemistry Graduate Student Experience: Implications of the ACS Survey of Graduate Students

STEM graduate education is vitally important in producing the talent needed to fuel our economy and provide solutions for the challenges we face in emerging diseases and climate change. Yet recent research indicates that women and students who identify as members of minority groups traditionally und...

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Published in:Journal of chemical education 2021-10, Vol.99 (1)
Main Authors: Rohlfing, Celeste M., Richmond, Geraldine L., Noviski, Maya, Lewis, Priscilla, Stockard, Jean
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
graduate education
INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
minorities in chemistry
research, women in chemistry
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Summary:STEM graduate education is vitally important in producing the talent needed to fuel our economy and provide solutions for the challenges we face in emerging diseases and climate change. Yet recent research indicates that women and students who identify as members of minority groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM face extraordinary challenges in their graduate careers. This commentary describes ways in which chemistry graduate education could become more supportive and inclusive through changes by graduate students, faculty, departments, funding agencies, and professional organizations. As a result the scientific workforce could utilize the full range of available talent and become more productive.
ISSN:0021-9584
1938-1328