Our country has become the epicenter of concern. Mortalities, racial violence, murder, and COVID-19 incidence rates disproportionately impact Black communities. The NCSA recognizes that racism is a form of trauma. A culturally specific stressor. It is an active systemic vehicle for oppression, harshly relived and experienced, in the lives of Black people in America. At the same time voluminous, articulate statements have been issued across every public sector, industry and discipline with good intent. At the NCSA we are asking tough questions through an equity obsessed lens, “How will we operationalize good intent? “What does it mean for Black lives to matter in academia?” How is progress evaluated and perpetuated? Our statement is a commitment. We are committed to the inconvenient, arduous work of culture change, representation, education and equity in our organization. We ask that you join us in doing the same.
The NCSA: A Balance of Teaching and Scholarship
The NCSA is a regional sociology association serving the areas of Eastern Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ontario, Canada.
The objectives of the NCSA are to further the development of sociology as a scientific and scholarly discipline through stimulation and promotion of:
1. Scientific research in its defined subject matter area;
2. The widest possible and feasible utilization of the knowledge and skills of sociologists and the findings of scientific sociological research by public and private agencies in all relevant social policy issues;
3. Effective teaching of the subject matter at all levels of educational endeavor;
4. Cooperative and collegial relations among persons and organizations engaged in the scientific study of society; any and all such other acts as may be deemed conductive to these ends.
Membership in the NCSA is open to all persons interested in and subscribing to its objectives and who have been awarded or are pursuing a graduate degree or an undergraduate degree in Sociology or in closely related fields from accredited institutions.
Persons without these qualifications may also become members if they present evidence of professional competence and commitment to the field of Sociology.
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