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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Teresa,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Harvard Forest might be interested in participating in this. Can you please let us know more information and provide a copy of the proposal you have drafted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Edie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Edie Cherkas Ellin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Director of Administration | Harvard Forest | Faculty of Arts and Sciences | Harvard University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">324 North Main Street, Petersham MA 01366 | harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Direct 978-756-6124 | Main 978-724-3302 | ellin@fas.harvard.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> diversity [<a href="mailto:diversity-bounces@lists.lternet.edu">mailto:diversity-bounces@lists.lternet.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Teresa Mourad<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 08, 2016 12:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:diversity@lternet.edu">diversity@lternet.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [LTER-diversity] ESA INCLUDES proposal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dear colleagues:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I wanted to update you on ESA’s INCLUDES proposal. I am hoping that someone from the LTER network would be interested in serving on the Steering Committee. This person might be either from the NCO or the diversity
committee. Please treat this update confidentially and kindly do not circulate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I will not belabor the background for broadening participation as you are all familiar. Suffice it to say that despite many great programs and a lot of investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, we have not
moved the needle much. Our premise is that the successful programs operate in silo and so it is now time to form an alliance for collective impact! Our overarching goal is to develop a comprehensive, fully-integrated, fully-linked network of pathways, exposures,
experiences, training, and advisors and peers for uderrepresented minority groups in ecology especially at critical transition points from high school through all stages of career development and achievement. The project will develop, facilitate and sustain
connections- horizontally and vertically – among existing programs and activities, leverage the investments that have already been made and fill critical cracks that our students fall into.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">For the pilot, the alliance will develop the 1) career materials to be disseminated to faculty, counselors, parents and students; 2) culturally relevant mentoring workshops for educators and society meetings; 3)
cadre of Youth Ambassadors formed from partner program alumni; 4) two career tracks coupled with virtual mentoring – a) research b) management with requirements leading to the earning of digital badges (at the pilot stage, we will develop this for undergraduate
audiences only); 5) series of two or three webinars or virtual courses on science /skills content to support each set of guided career tracks to be offered by partners; 6) showcase of student work via a national competition with three topical strands; 7)
set of lab exercises, BioBlitz or Citizen science activities that will provide hands-on experiences to students.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Commitment of SC committee
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<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">• Two in-person meetings of the Steering Committee per year</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">• Monthly conference calls of Steering Committee</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">• Actively participate in designing the work of the alliance – you can choose to lead specific activities that resonate with LTER (examples
in the second list below)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">• Contribute to collective outputs e.g. career materials, requirements for career tracks, diversity mentoring resources etc.
</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">• Participate in discussions about evaluation results</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">For LTERs in particular, some initial possibilities of involvement include (suggestions only):
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<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">• Running workshops for LTER scientists who wish to engage diverse students at your meetings, (something I think the LTER diversity committee
wants to do anyhow). The alliance will share best practices on that. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">• Contribute science content e.g. on long term monitoring, etc. through workshops, webinars or other avenues</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">• Help form a cadre of scientists willing to mentor students virtually.
</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">• Share info about REUs and other opportunities at LTER sites to recruit students</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Apologies that this is coming so late but it did take time to solidify – and is still evolving. I welcome your input.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thanks and have a great weekend. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Vivaldi;color:#4F6228">Teresa</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Teresa Mourad</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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