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The University of Washington Bothell is one of about only 100 institutions nationally accepted into the Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Alliance (IDEA) of the American Physical Society<\/a>. Launched over the summer, the alliance is a support network for physics departments, laboratories and observatories that want to identify and enact strategies to transform the culture of physics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Assistant Professor Paola Rodr\u00edguez Hidalgo led the University\u2019s application, which had the support of the entire Physical Sciences Division<\/a> in the School of STEM<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s really the whole cohort of physics, the community of faculty,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American Physical Society sponsors conferences, publishes journals and leads initiatives. In their first few IDEA meetings, participants have formed cohorts, established shared leadership and started self-assessments. UW Bothell is in a group with about a half-dozen similar-sized institutions, Rodr\u00edguez Hidalgo said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll of us have been trying to do this at our own institutions and have been having failures and successes, but we have not been sharing them,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of \u201creinventing the wheel,\u201d the alliance is a way to share what works and to make more progress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The culture of physics <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The culture of physics, Rodr\u00edguez Hidalgo said, has been, \u201cOnly the best survive, and you are really smart. Either you have the capability from the cradle, or you\u2019re not going to make it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a field that has been white-male dominated for many years, it\u2019s easy for students who look different to lack a growth mindset, she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen people aren\u2019t represented, they feel \u2018I\u2019m not really good,\u2019 if they fail an exam. Or, \u2018this might not be for me,\u2019 and then they drop.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students who feel they belong, however, are more likely to realize that everybody fails at some point. \u201cThen you start up and try again,\u201d Rodr\u00edguez Hidalgo said. \u201cEverybody can learn physics if you put the energy to it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breaking the notion <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In addition to promoting faculty diversity, the IDEA initiative asks students who may not have seen themselves in physics to consider it as a major or minor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe idea is to break this notion that the sciences \u2014 physics especially \u2014 are only for white males,\u201d Rodr\u00edguez Hidalgo said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That fits with UW Bothell\u2019s strategic plan<\/a> to expand access and achieve excellence by strengthening diversity and equity. The Physical Sciences Division itself has three women in tenure-track assistant professor positions: Rodr\u00edguez Hidalgo, Joey Shapiro Key and Rachel Scherr. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The division\u2019s self-assessment of diversity through the IDEA initiative will guide the work going forward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think it was started already. This is just another push to search for evidence-based initiatives that have worked and document how they were put into action,\u201d Rodr\u00edguez Hidalgo said. \u201cIt\u2019s never ending.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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