{"id":156679,"date":"2019-11-21T16:59:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=156679"},"modified":"2019-11-22T09:05:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T14:05:55","slug":"unintended-consequences-diversitys-expanding-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/11\/unintended-consequences-diversitys-expanding-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unintended Consequences of Diversity\u2019s Expanding Definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Nov. 22 issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/366\/6468\/929\">Science<\/a> Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, an orthopedic surgeon-scientist of the University of Connecticut and its UConn School of Medicine, authored the editorial <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/366\/6468\/929\">\u201cThe Context of Diversity.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his editorial Laurencin shines light on while greater diversity is welcomed \u201cthere are unintended negative consequences of the expanded definition of diversity\u201d which is ever-growing to include identities across race, gender, sexual orientation, physical appearance, belief systems, thought styles, socioeconomic status, and rural\/urban geographic location.<\/p>\n<p>He believes this may be having a particularly serious impact on specific underrepresented racial and ethnic groups such as black men and black women in science, engineering and medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese may be factors in the crisis-level changes seen across the academic landscape of blacks in science, engineering, and medicine,\u201d said Laurencin.<\/p>\n<p>This November to confront this issue the U.S. National Academies will be having its first historic \u201cRoundtable on Black Men and Black Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Laurencin: \u201cForging systemic changes that bring Black diversity at all education and career levels will hopefully bring racial equity to practices in these fields and in doing so, expand the benefits of science, engineering, and medicine to society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more from Laurencin in his new editorial published in Science <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/366\/6468\/929\">here<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Nov. 22 issue of Science Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, an orthopedic surgeon-scientist of the University of Connecticut and its UConn School of Medicine, is author of the editorial \u201cThe Context of Diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":142824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866,1868],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1873],"class_list":["post-156679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr","category-meds"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 15:32:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156687,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156679\/revisions\/156687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/142824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156679"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=156679"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=156679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}