About this Project
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HideBuilding Strong Geoscience Departments is a project focused on helping geoscience departments adapt and prosper in a changing and challenging environment. Through workshops, this website, professional society meeting sessions, and publications this project aims to stimulate discussions and disseminate community expertise on topics such as approaches to core content and curriculum, retaining and recruiting top faculty and students, and maintaining the department as a valued institutional partner. Building Strong Geoscience Departments is also a sponsored activity of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers.
Project PIs
Cathy Manduca (Carleton College), Heather Macdonald (College of William and Mary), Geoff Feiss (College of William and Mary), and Randy Richardson (University of Arizona) are the PIs on this project.
Getting Involved
There are several opportunities for geoscience departments (or individual faculty members) to become involved with this project:
Contribute to Online Collections
- Submit a description of your department for inclusion in our collection of program profiles, or send us your recruitment poster for inclusion in our collection of recruitment posters from departments around the country. Follow the links to find out how to contribute.
Geodepartments Listserv
- The Geodepartments listserv is an email list where members can receive announcements about relevant workshops and events at professional society meetings, as well as discuss issues that are important to the community. If you would like to join the list, click here to go to the sign up page. You can also browse through the list archives to see the kinds of topics that have been discussed in the past.
As a Workshop Participant
- We convene several workshops and conference sessions each year for interested faculty members. Workshop participants are part of this research project, so we do analyze information submitted in application and registration forms, as well as materials created as a result of the workshop. Read more about this aspect of the research project on this page.
Community Visioning
- Since 2004, several activities have contributed to our vision for the Building Strong Geosciences Departments project. Read all about it.
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