Our Approach
AAAS strives to be a boldly inclusive, mobilized, and global scientific community that ignites, enables, and celebrates scientific excellence and science-informed decisions and actions. Our plan to achieve this vision includes four strategic goals, one of which is to foster the open and inclusive scientific enterprise that is essential for scientific excellence.
Because our global membership touches all scientific disciplines, our actions matter in ensuring that everyone can participate in and benefit from the scientific enterprise. Publishing in our journals, earning an award or fellowship, or serving on our governing bodies provides credibility and stature to accomplished members of our community.
To unlock the STEMM workforce’s full potential in the face of global challenges, we must assemble teams that can provide a broad range of experiences, thoughts, and geographical perspectives. Doing so requires that we broaden access and opportunity so that anyone can enter and thrive in STEMM. Learn more about our efforts across the scientific ecosystem.
Introducing the New 2025 Digital Dashboard
As part of our ongoing commitment to transparency and increasing access to our data, the 2025 Inclusivity for Excellence Report is now paired with an interactive data dashboard, replacing the previous appendix that included static charts in a PDF format. Through this transition to a digital format, we aim to enhance the user experience while supporting our commitment to fostering an open and inclusive STEMM community.
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Reports
In 2020, AAAS released an action plan to hold ourselves accountable to fostering an open and inclusive STEMM community. Since then, AAAS has released an annual report to deliver updates on our commitment to sharing data on the career-enabling functions we help propel and our efforts to broaden participation in STEMM within and beyond our organization.