On September 22, President Trump issued an executive order (EO) to “combat offensive and anti-American race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating.” The order expands on a recent memorandum from the White House Office of Management and Budget that required federal agencies to cease funding for...
PAA and APC have endorsed AERA/NAEd Statement in Support of Anti-Racist Education. The evidence suggests that addressing issues of race and racism requires a level of candor not often experienced in workplaces and education settings. In the 1970s, educators stood against Holocaust deniers to...
AERA_NAEd_AntiRacism_Statement_10-6-2020_with_Endorsements.pdf
PAA endorsed the attached letter to OMB Director Russell Vought about the recent changes to diversity training program requirements for Federal employees and contractors. The undersigned scientific societies strongly urge the Administration to rescind its elimination of federal employee...
Diversity Training Changes Multisociety Letter.pdf
As the presidents of the Population Association of America and Association of Population Centers, we want to express how profoundly recent events have affected us as individuals, the organizations we lead, and our members. The recent deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and...
PAA APC statement on racial injustice final.pdf
Multisociety letter standing united in a spirit of diversity and inclusion and offer our support for people of Asian ancestry, rejecting efforts to ascribe fault for the pandemic, and instead urge a focus on leveraging global human diversity to solve today’s public health crisis. The...
Multisociety Letter Stigmatization of Asians_Final.pdf