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| ED16: | Student Recruitment, Curriculum Design, and More: Strategies and Resources for Building Strong Geoscience Departments |
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Education and Human Resources
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Carol J Ormand Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College 1 N. College St. Northfield, MN, USA cormand@carleton.edu Randall M Richardson University of Arizona Department of Geosciences Gould-Simpson Building Tucson, AZ, USA rmr@email.arizona.edu R Heather Macdonald College of William and Mary Department of Geology McGlothlin-Street Hall Williamsburg, VA, USA rhmacd@wm.edu |
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| Description: | Some geoscience departments are thriving while others struggle for survival. Those that thrive are successful at recruiting students and preparing them for future careers via their curricula and other aspects of their programs. They are also successful at articulating their successes to prospective students, current students, faculty advisors, alumni, employers, and institutional administrators. Successful curricula are designed to produce alumni with the knowledge and skills they will need for the next stage. In this session we seek contributions from departments of successful strategies, assessments for determining success, and supporting resources related to recruitment of undergraduate and/or graduate students, curriculum design, developing students for the professional geoscience workforce, program and student learning assessment, and program development beyond the curriculum. |