Beyond Standing our Ground

Overview

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is leading a law and diversity project, with participation by the Association of American Universities (AAU), which has been funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the National Science Foundation. This project will provide in-depth legal resource materials for General Counsels in the AAU (and, we hope, eventually to universities across the country) on effective and legally sustainable approaches to build greater diversity in the faculty, as well as graduate and undergraduate student bodies.

Click here to view the full project overview and details of the intial workshop that took place on April 28-29, 2009

Resources

• Statement for AAAS/AAU Diversity Workshop, [PDF] by Robert M. Berdahl, AAU President
  
  
• Thoughts on Creativity, Diversity and Innovation in Science & Education, [PDF] by S. James Gates, Jr., University of Maryland-College Park
  
  
• Yale University's Commitment to Diversity, [PDF] Yale University