New Book: Impact of DEI Standard ISO-30415 on Professional Societies

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Our chair, James Felton Keith co-authors chapter 5 of a new edited volume on the impacts of the ISO-30415:DISM in Professional Societies like the American Society of Civil Engineers and Mechanical Engineers. The Standard developed at The Keith Institute & DISM Forum turn "deliberate equity and inclusion" into a feat of mechanical engineering, or what IT (information technology) professionals would call "work-flow". The truth is that we do know what we do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd to both identify the people in an organization and incentivize those individual's productive participation in those institutions. This is the 12th publication affiliated with the research of the Keith Institute.

Building Inclusive Scientific Communities and Leadership

Case Studies from Professional Societies

From editor Verónica A. Segarra: Associate Professor and Maryland E-Nnovation Endowed Chair in Biological Sciences and Chemistry at Goucher College

In Chapter 5 of our upcoming multi-author book, authors Gretalyn (Gretal) Leibnitz, PhD, James Felton Keith, Lisa Black, and Brian A. Burt, Ph.D., introduce the standard and discuss how it can be leveraged to optimize workforce engagement and resilience. They also illustrate, through a case study, how its early adoption is currently being manifested within an engineering professional society.

JFK and colleagues came together 2 years ago at the University of Wisconsin on a $1.25M National Science Foundation funded grant call REVIIS to implement the ISO-30415 Standard at STEM (science technology engineering and math) Professional Societies