We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on the National Science Foundation’s proposed information collection request related to the 2019 National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG). See 83 Fed. Reg. 27354 (June 12, 2018). We are a group of 17 scientific organizations and associations of higher education, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Association of University Professors, and 236 scientists and engineers, including 17 members of the National Academies, committed to promoting diversity in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields and inclusion of underrepresented groups in our nation’s STEM workforce. We write jointly with 8 scholars at the Williams Institute and other institutions who have long worked with federal agencies to improve data collection on the U.S. population and have produced widely-cited best practices for the collection of sexual orientation and gender identity information on population-based surveys. The Williams Institute is an interdisciplinary center at the UCLA School of Law dedicated to rigorous and independent research on sexual orientation and gender identity, including on employment and education of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.
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