COINS

The Committee On Inclusion iN SDSS (COINS) was formed to address issues having to do with inclusion in the survey. Our broad goals are to assess the SDSS project and collaboration’s climate and demographics, to recommend to the collaboration management new policies or practices with regard to increasing inclusiveness, and to assist in the implementation of these new activities where necessary. We publicize our findings to the collaboration and ensure that resources that promote inclusivity are widely accessible. We aim to provide the collaboration tools to improve the climate of equity and inclusion.

Specific initiatives include:

• Identification of effective ways to increase the diversity in collaboration leadership.
• Routine recommendation to SDSS-IV on how best to develop its scientific and technical leadership team, in particular so as to foster greater inclusiveness, ensuring equal participation to the Collaboration regardless of gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, career stage, geographic location, economic background, social and cultural backgrounds etc and all possible intersections thereof.
• Routine evaluation the collaboration’s demographics, as measured by the representation in management, science working groups, collaboration meeting talks, and review panels, and other areas.
• Routine evaluation of the collaboration’s general climate, with respect to having a healthy atmosphere for encouraging young scientists to participate and lead scientifically, and for good communication between young scientists and the survey leadership.