Diversity

Do-ing Diversity in Museums

By Elizabeth Merritt

Chris Taylor’s commitment to helping his institution make traction in conversations about diversity, inclusion, and professional development led to the creation of The Department of Inclusion and Community Engagement (DICE) at the …
Museums & Employment: Casting a Wider Net

By Elizabeth Merritt

Diversifying the museum workforce is going to involve all players in the labor market rethinking traditional assumptions. In her January guest post (“One Graduate’s Job Search Story”) Sophie Stein encourages recent …
Museum Magazine and The Future of Diversity

By Elizabeth Merritt

Since CFM launched in 2008, I’ve been aware of the danger of our work being the proverbial mile wide and an inch deep. That is why the CFM Fellow program, now in its infancy, is so critical: fellows will give us the capacity to take a …
The Labor of Diversity

By Nicole Ivy

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2016 edition of the Museum magazine. Museums serve as places of collaboration, education, and reflection. They exist in stunning variety, from institutions with collections of …
A Bodacious Commitment to Diversity

By Elizabeth Merritt

Yesterday the Mellon Foundation released a report based on the first comprehensive survey of the demographics of art museum staff. For the most part, it documents what we already knew: “professional” staff in museums (e.g., directors, …
So this museum geek walks into an academic research meeting…

By Elizabeth Merritt

Earlier this month I was in London, participating in the Diversity, (In)equality and Differences workshop organized by the Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities. As I shared in an earlier post, I was one of about …
Tapping into TransAtlantic Research on Diversity & Inequality

By Elizabeth Merritt

In a couple of weeks I’ll be in London, representing the Alliance at the “Diversity, (In)equality and Differences” workshop organized by the Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities. Around twenty researchers and scholars …
Monday Musing: Fighting for Diversity and Against Unconscious Bias

By Elizabeth Merritt

Two articles for my quick Monday thought:This depressing article from the NYTimes by a researcher who has been documenting how selection criteria in corporate America suppress diversity. He finds that the practices of selecting applicants …
Choosing Roles: Facilitator or Advocate?

By Elizabeth Merritt

Would you rather be loved, or would you rather save the world? You can’t necessarily have both. I pondered this choice, as it applies to museums, yesterday morning at the last half day of the 21st Century Learning in Natural History …
It’s Up 2 You!

By Elizabeth Merritt

The best way to get your message out is through whatever format your audience is already attuned to. This is not always (big shock) a 200 word exhibit text panel. The most effective medium might be video, a blog, a game, or a graphic …