§19016 Chief Diversity Officer of the NSF

Summary

The Director must pick a senior official in the Director’s office to be the Chief Diversity Officer. That person must have strong experience in the federal government and the science community on diversity and inclusion work. They must know about civil rights rules, handling harassment cases, equal employment rules, and disability policy. The Chief Diversity Officer must give advice and coordinate diversity and inclusion work across the Foundation and help make sure programs are spread across different places. They must create and keep a public strategy with a clear diversity vision and goals, set measurable and useful metrics tied to real priorities, and use those metrics to carry out the plan. They must help plan for diverse participation by people and colleges (including community colleges, HBCUs, Tribal colleges, other minority-serving schools, schools with Native Hawaiian or Alaska Native STEM programs, and EPSCoR institutions), advise on outreach to underrepresented places and groups, guide PreK–12 STEM inclusion efforts, advise on the broader impacts review, and do other tasks the Director assigns. Up to $5,000,000 is authorized for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2027.