增加天文学中代表性不足的少数群体的数量：执行摘要
Increasing the Number of Underrepresented Minorities in Astronomy: Executive Summary
摘要：
促进种族和民族多样性对天文学领域未来的成功和发展至关重要。在该领域出类拔萃所需的原始能力、动力和兴趣是不分种族、性别或社会经济背景的。如果我们不积极促进我们领域的多样性，我们就有可能失去有才华的人到其他行业（或完全失去他们），这意味着将有天文发现，根本不会得到。有证据表明，STEM领域受益于对需要更复杂思维过程的问题的不同观点。这与天文学这样的领域尤其相关，因为越来越多的工作是合作完成的。非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔和美洲原住民在天文学方面的代表性缺乏显着增长，表明这些人的“管道”在关键时刻系统性地泄漏。必须作出更大的努力，改善少数群体的教育和职业发展，以确保这些潜在的同事在整个过程中得到支持。然而，仅仅认识到管道有缺陷是远远不够的。必须有非常具体、有针对性的解决办法来帮助改善这种情况。考虑到这一点，我们提出了两份立场文件，解决我们确定为（a）对该领域任何可预见的进展至关重要的具体改进领域，以及（b）在2010-2020十年中可以实现的改进领域。这些立场文件主要集中在非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔和美洲原住民。虽然我们没有直接解决亚裔美国人、太平洋岛民和其他群体的问题，但这里提出的许多建议也可以适用于解决这些群体面临的问题。
英文摘要：
Promoting racial and ethnic diversity is critically important to the future success and growth of the field of astronomy. The raw ability, drive and interest required to excel in the field is distributed without regard to race, gender, or socioeconomic background. By not actively promoting diversity in our field we risk losing talented people to other professions (or losing them entirely), which means that there will be astronomical discoveries that simply won't get made. There is demonstrated evidence that STEM fields benefit from diverse perspectives on problems that require more complex thought processes. This is especially relevant to a field like astronomy where more and more work is being done collaboratively. The lack of notable growth in African American, Hispanic, and Native American representation in astronomy indicates that the 'pipeline' for these individuals is systemically leaky at critical junctures. Substantially more effort must be directed toward improving the educational and career development of minorities to insure that these potential colleagues are supported through the process. However, simply recognizing that the pipeline is faulty is woefully inadequate. There must be very specific, targeted solutions to help improve the situation. With this in mind, we offer two position papers addressing specific areas of improvement that we identify as (a) essential for any foreseeable progress in the field, and (b) attainable in the 2010-2020 decade. These position papers focus primarily on African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans. Although we do not directly address issues of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and other groups, many of the recommendations made here can be adapted to address issues faced by these groups as well.
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