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The Black Lives Matter movement encouraged many institutions to inspect their equity and diversity policies, and consider what else they could do to achieve equality in academia. This Career Guide aims to help individual faculty members to build a more diverse lab – and explains why they should.
Many institutions publicly pledged their commitment to inclusion after Black Lives Matter protests this year. And researchers emphasize the need to maintain momentum.