Resources

Social Justice Education Initiative (SJEI) Workshops

(OSU only) Free, four-hour social justice and equity related and interactive workshops
Faculty, staff, and graduate students can register to attend
Easy online registration allows access to workshops covering topics like the History of Oregon, microaggressions, and equitable teaching.

Native-Land.ca - Our home on native land

Whose land are you on? This map shows the location of territories, languages, treaty history of Indigenous nations of the Americas and Oceania.
An interactive map which is the result of a 2018 global mapping project of indigenous lands.

Land-grab universities

High Country News identified 99% of all Morrill Act acres, which turned Indigenous land into college endowments.
They identified the acres' original Indigenous inhabitants and caretakers, and researched the principal raised from sales in the 19th-20th centuries.
They found ~10.7 million acres were taken from nearly 250 tribes, bands and communities through over 160 violence-backed land cessions.

Mentoring minority graduate students

These authors identify the challenges that minority graduate students confront in establishing healthy mentoring relationships, and the negative outcomes from the lack of productive mentoring relationships.
For example, the inability to enact effective behaviors enables adoption of a "survivalist" mentality which may impede future mentoring of their own future students.

Tips to avoid gender bias in writing letters of recommendation

Racial Equity Tools (RET)

A comprehensive collection of resources to learn core concepts about racism, resources on planning actions for racial equity, strategies for equity, assessing the efficacy of a group's racial equity work, and access curricula designed for use by educators.

Recommended RET reading:

No progress on diversity in 40 years

Nationwide efforts to increase diversity in the geosciences over 40 years has resulted in little to no progress at the PhD level.
Authors find that the geosciences continues to be the least ethnically diverse STEM discipline, despite gains in the representation of women.
When evaluating the number of awarded PhDs by race from 1973 to 2016, there was little proportional improvement in the number of PhDs awarded to underrepresented minorities (URM), specifically American Indians, Alaskan Natives, and Blacks/African Americans.
Women of color were even more poorly represented: URM women receiving less than 2% of PhDs over the 40 years.

Diversity in geoscience: Participation, behaviour, and the division of scientific labour at a Canadian geoscience conference

In this observational study, King and colleagues assess gender and racial bias at one of Canada’s largest geoscience conferences using a mix of demographic and observational data, in which they found:

Stark underrepresentation of women speakers
Dominance during question/answer periods of presentations by men
Reduced attention to and gendered or argumentative questioning towards women and presenters of color

These behaviors in addition to a few others described in this article culminate into what the authors describe as a ‘chilly climate’ that likely bars and discourages minoritized attendees from further participation. They noted, however, that the presence of female conveners greatly increased the percentage of female presenters, and researchers committed to diversification should reflect on the choices they make in their own networks.

The International Association for Geoscience Diversity (IAGD)

IAGD is dedicated to creating access and inclusion for persons with disabilities in the Geosciences.
The website includes resource forums specific to different disabilities.
Each year, they offer an accessible Geology field trip in conjunction with the GSA Meeting.