# Presentation: 659309

## Space Sciences Directorate Report to the Diversity Council

- December 18, 2001

## Topics

- Diversity Characteristics in the Space Sciences Directorate (SSD)
- Increasing Organizational Strength through Diversity (Current Workforce)
- Increasing Diversity (Future Workforce)

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## SSD Diversity Characteristics

- Diverse in many ways, but not in ethnicity

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## SSD Civil Service Workforce

*Data as of  4/27/01*

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## SSD Civil Service Workforce

*Data as of  4/27/01*

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## Workforce Age Distribution

- 170

*Data as of 1/31/01*

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## Increasing Strength Through Diversity (Current Workforce)

- SSD Diversity Management Policy signed by Directorate and Laboratory managers - Feb. 2001
- Supervisors formed into SSD-wide Diversity Council
- 2 quarterly meetings (under Jim Barrowman)
- Intended to keep diversity info flowing, maintain diversity consciousness, generate new ideas on how to meet challenges
- Promoting Diversity message through recruitment of participants for Center Diversity Dialogs
- American Physics Society asked to do audit on workplace environment from women’s perspective
- APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics
- Jean Swank served on similar audit committee for UCAR

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## Increasing Diversity (Future Workforce)

- SSD’s ethnic diversity reflects the science community in general
- The science community is not ethnically diverse
- There is great competition for good minority scientists
- Our challenge is to help increase the ethnic diversity of the science community so we have a broader ethnicity from which to draw

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## Increasing Diversity (Future Workforce)

- Packaging co-op program with UMBC to attract under-represented students into science
- Modeled after successful “Scholars” program developed by UMBC for NSA
- Focused on undergraduates to capture candidates early
- Jonathan Ormes planning visit to two universities in Louisiana
- Higher than average population of African-Americans in physics
- J. Ormes to present seminar at Morgan State

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## Increasing Diversity (Future Workforce)

- Attended the National Conference Black Physics Students
- Beth Brown, Tali Figueroa, and Ron Polidan
- Presentation by Tali encouraging doctoral studies and NASA and Goddard science careers
- Beth on panel sharing work experiences
- Identified candidates for our graduate minority co-op program

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## NCBPS Recruitment SummaryB. Brown & R. Polidan

**NCBPS Recruitment Summary****B. Brown & R. Polidan**

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## Increasing Diversity (Future Workforce)

- On-going collaborations with HBCUs and OMUs
- List published on Diversity Web Site
- Example of FY01 activity on next page
- Establishing MOU with HQ/EU, MU-SPIN,
- 	and MUPO
- Partnership to stimulate increased participation of minority universities in space science

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## NASA OSS Education Support Network Scientists Met with 9 Minority Professional SocietiesWestern Kentucky University, May 9-10, 2001

**Plans were made with Black, Hispanic, **
**and Native American Scientists,**
**Engineers, and Mathematicians for**
**cooperative programs in:**
**Science research**
**Post doc, summer fellowship and student internships**
**Evaluating proposals**
**Using information technologies to enhance OSS education and outreach  projects**
**Reviewing education products for science accuracy and diverse appeal**
**Promoting NASA science and math materials in workshops and school visits**
**Follow-up telecons and meetings will be used to carry out the plans**

- J. Thieman of Code 633, conversing with M. E. Zavala of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos & Native Americans in Science
- (SACNAS)

- I. Hawkins of UC Berkeley meeting with D. Willis and P. Hall of the National Association for Black Geologists and Geophysicists
- (NABGG)

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