News from the CSCCE: June 2020

With the global Black Lives Matter movement prompting many communities to have difficult conversations that address racist ideas and policies, being able to build and maintain healthy communities in science is more important than ever. At CSCCE, our goal is to support those building scientific communities, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are central to this.

In this month’s newsletter, we highlight some resources in service of this aim.

From core values to behaviors

Having difficult discussions requires delineating safe spaces in which to meet, something that we have been working on for some time. This month we finalized and published our core values, which were co-created with our community. These values will frame all of our programming, training, and research going forward as we work to create an inclusive, supportive, and engaging environment for learning and growing together.

In creating our core values we used a CSCCE framework, which formed the basis of a workshop we co-hosted at the Science of Team Science conference earlier this month. We also recently convened a “Getting SET to Scale” workshop for NSF INCLUDES, which focused on building diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible communities in science. Please get in touch if you are interested in offering these trainings in your organization.

News and Updates

New resources available

This month we launched our In-person community events resource page. It includes a new open access guidebook for building community through events, which was created by the CA²L²M Events 2019 CEFP Project Team.

Visit our resources page

A Slack guidebook

We also published a guide to creating engaging communities on Slack. This guidebook is accompanied by an appendix containing additional resources and worksheets to help you build your online community.

Vist our Zenodo repository

CSCCE special interest groups

Our community of practice continues to grow and evolve. To help facilitate conversation, two new special interest groups are now active, focusing on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Data Science.

Request to join our Slack group

CSCCE Trainings

We provide training across a range of topics from community engagement fundamentals to technology selection for communities, including:

Building an engaging online community, e.g., on Slack
Transitioning to online events
Planning and launching an ambassador program
Fundamentals of community engagement
Technology selection and adoption

Email info@cscce.org for more information.

View all of our available trainings

From our Blog

Creating core values: A new worksheet from CSCCE

In May, we published CSCCE’s core values, which were co-created with our Code of Conduct working group and participants on our May community call. In this blog post we dive a little deeper into our process, which we have made available for download in a new worksheet.

Laying Your Happiness Foundation When Starting a New Role

Transitioning to a new role can be a daunting and important stage in your community management career. In this guest blog post, CEFP2019 Fellow, Ann Meyer, shares five tips to help you thrive – and enjoy – your next career move.

Navigating the Nuances of Hiring a Community Team Member

If you’re recruiting for a new member of your community team, how do you identify potential candidates, create a successful interview process and then support the on-boarding of your new team member? CEFP2019 Fellow, Liz Guzy, walks us through the steps.

May’s Community Call Recap and Announcing the CSCCE Core Values

On May’s community call we discussed and refined a set of core values prepared by the CSSCE Code of Conduct Working Group. Through breakout sessions and open discussion, members of the community considered the values and how they translate into personal and collective behaviors.

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