{"id":14729,"date":"2019-06-18T08:03:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T12:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=14729"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:25","slug":"u-m-hosts-seismic-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/06\/18\/u-m-hosts-seismic-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"U-M hosts SEISMIC conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/48138005146_b2ac2dc14a_k-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"Two women of color and man sitting at desk talking.\" class=\"wp-image-14784\"\/><figcaption>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/crlt-michigan\/48138005146\/\">SEISMIC flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SEISMIC, a coalition of American research institutions striving to create a more accessible STEM curriculum to underrepresented minorities, held its first annual summer meeting in June on the U-M campus. Over four days, nearly 40 representatives from the 10 participating universities, which collectively enroll about 350,000 students, gathered to discuss how to foster a mindset in which STEM is a viable course of study for anyone who wishes to pursue it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SEISMIC has funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to continue for at least three more years. <strong>Tim McKay<\/strong>, U-M professor of physics and SEISMIC director, said he hopes to accomplish a lot in that time, but acknowledges that SEISMIC is only the beginning of a transition STEM fields have to make in the interest of diversity. \u201cThe struggle for equity, for inclusion, it continues,\u201d McKay said. \u201cIn fact, I don\u2019t think it ever ends. There will always be people who are not here and who we have to find ways to bring here, to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEISMIC, a coalition of American research institutions striving to create a more accessible STEM curriculum to underrepresented minorities, held its first annual summer meeting in June on the U-M campus. Over four days, nearly 40 representatives from the 10 participating universities, which collectively enroll about 350,000 students, gathered to discuss how to foster a mindset in which STEM\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/06\/18\/u-m-hosts-seismic-conference\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[204,188,362],"class_list":["post-14729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","category-professional-development","tag-conference","tag-people","tag-stem"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/48138005146_b2ac2dc14a_k-e1563464953176.jpg",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/48138005146_b2ac2dc14a_k-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/48138005146_b2ac2dc14a_k-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/48138005146_b2ac2dc14a_k-768x512.jpg",665,443,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/48138005146_b2ac2dc14a_k-700x467.jpg",600,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/48138005146_b2ac2dc14a_k-e1563464953176.jpg",600,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/48138005146_b2ac2dc14a_k-e1563464953176.jpg",600,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/48138005146_b2ac2dc14a_k-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/48138005146_b2ac2dc14a_k-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/48138005146_b2ac2dc14a_k-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/48138005146_b2ac2dc14a_k-665x443.jpg",665,443,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/48138005146_b2ac2dc14a_k-e1563464953176.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"SEISMIC, a coalition of American research institutions striving to create a more accessible STEM curriculum to underrepresented minorities, held its first annual summer meeting in June on the U-M campus. 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