May 2 2022: Each year, CSE recognizes excellence by leaders in the field of science communication and acknowledges the exceptional accomplishments and contributions of its members by presenting a series of awards to recipients selected by its Awards and Honors Committee.

Award for Meritorious Achievement

This is CSE’s highest honor. It is awarded to an individual or an organization that has made significant contributions to advancing the broad goal of CSE: to improve scientific communication through the pursuit of high standards in all activities connected with editing.

 

 

The Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) embraces an essential mission to work with organizations and individuals to build equity, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility (DEIA) in scholarly communications. With the Award for Meritorious Achievement, CSE applauds C4DISC’s commitment to DEIA as a moral imperative and to advancing its principles for the long-term sustainability and success of our industry.

C4DISC was founded by ten trade and professional associations that represent organizations and individuals working in scholarly communications. CSE is proud to be one of these ten founding members. Today, more than 100 organizations have adopted the C4DISC Joint Statement of Principles. C4DISC has also developed the Toolkits for Equity, a series of groundbreaking training guides to aid in transforming our workplaces and organizational cultures.

C4DISC’s convener, Melanie Dolecheck, will accept the CSE Award for Meritorious Achievement on behalf of the organization. Melanie commented, 

“As the convener and a founding member of C4DISC I am proud of how far C4DISC has come in a few short years and the work that we’ve accomplished so far. The response and support from the scholarly communications community has been inspiring to say the least. The passion that our community has for doing this work is reflected in the countless volunteer hours that have already been dedicated to developing community resources. 

The Coalition was built for our community, by our community. It exists because we’ve collectively acknowledged that to ensure sustainability, equity, growth, and access, our industry must commit to long-term efforts to curb the deeply ingrained patterns of exclusion and inequity in our practices, policies, and frameworks.”