The Ohio State University Ecology and Environmental Fields Student Advisory Board

The Ohio State University is currently looking for 15 motivated, creative, and energetic students of color to help them refine their understanding of diverse student experiences in ecology and environmental biology by participating in a Student Advisory Board (SAB). The term for this participation is at least one year for which includes a stipend of $1000 for your collaboration with the UNIDE team.

They are a diverse team of ecologists, environmental scientists and social scientists working on the NSF-funded project UNIDE -Undergraduate Network for Increasing Diversity of Ecologists on the following goals:

• To identify the barriers and challenges that must be overcome in order to support participation of under-represented people (based on ethnicity or race) in the study and practice of Ecology and Environmental (EE) fields
• To characterize the ecological identity, or sense of social belonging in EE to include the values of under-represented people with the goal of developing effective interventions to identified barriers and challenges for recruitment and retention of diverse people and to revise current EE curriculum to include broader values
• To build a sustainable and interdisciplinary network of faculty, students, and practitioners in ecology/environmental Science (EE), educators, and social scientists committed to maintaining broad ethnic, racial and cultural inclusion in ecology and environmental sciences 

Expectations of Student Advisory Board members:
The SAB will organize meetings to identify and prioritize factors that affect diverse students’ recruitment and retention in EE fields. Work expectations (~2-4 hours per month) for SAB participants include attending and conducting monthly meetings to discuss and provide feedback to the UNIDE Steering Committee on topics that include:

1. potential effectiveness of ways to increase access to EE career information and EE internship opportunities,
2. effectiveness of interventions developed to increase cultural sensitivity of environmental teaching practices, and
3. implement and monitor social media outreach to EE students and practitioners to help build interest in ecology and environmental science

Please click here to fill out the attached application for participation in the UNIDE Student Advisory Board by February 28, 2022.