CEO DATELINE - Science groups vow to carry on momentum from March for Science
CEO DATELINE - Science groups vow to carry on momentum from March for Science
- April 25, 2017 |
-
Walt Williams
Consider joining CEO Update. Membership gives full access to the latest intelligence on association management, career advancement, compensation trends and networking events, as well as hundreds of listings for senior-level association jobs.
Thirty-one organizations representing scientists and researchers will build on the momentum of the March for Science by promoting the value of science in policymaking and society, according to a joint statement released Monday.
Protesters took to the streets of Washington, D.C., and other cities worldwide Saturday to celebrate science. While billed as a nonpartisan event, the march began as a response to the Trump administration, which is proposing cutting both funding for science research and the budgets of agencies that rely heavily on science for regulation.
The march received a significant public boost in February when the American Association for the Advancement of Science partnered with the organizers. CEO Rush Holt spoke at the D.C. event.
"Thousands of marchers and more than a hundred organizations rallied around the standard that AAAS raised," Holt said in a statement on the AAAS website.
"Now the science community turns to capturing the great energy and concern expressed in many ways through many voices during the marches and works to channel them toward the advancement of science," he added.
In the joint statement, the 31 groups said they would collectively conduct thousands of outreach programs worldwide to help their members become "ever more involved in public engagement."
"Thousands of people marched for science as citizens and scientists, parents and children, technicians and teachers, workers and retirees, doctors and patients," the groups said. "They marched to say our collective future is more hopeful with science—and at risk without it. They affirmed that science is exciting, essential to human well-being and economic prosperity, and a foundation for sound policy."
Signatories include the American Chemical Society, American Geophysical Union, American Psychological Association, Endocrine Society, Entomological Society of America and Research!America. http://bit.ly/2osmPBy
MORE CEO DATELINE