Supporting and Advancing Geoscience Education in Two-Year Colleges (SAGE 2YC)
Supporting and Advancing Geoscience Education in Two-Year Colleges (SAGE 2YC) is designed to support the continued growth of a vibrant 2YC geoscience faculty community by providing a variety of professional development opportunities, fostering the growth of professional networks, and developing web-based resources for 2YC geoscience faculty and programs. SAGE 2YC will offer a series of national and regional workshops focused on strategies for preparing 2YC students for the geoscience workforce (both technical training and successful transfer) and on teaching students with a range of abilities, experiences, and goals. This project specifically addresses the needs and challenges of 2YC faculty, and there will be a number of ways that 2YC faculty can participate. Funding to support faculty travel and other costs will be available.
National Workshops: The first national workshop, "Preparing Students in Two-year Colleges for Geoscience Degrees and Careers" will be held at the University of Washington - Tacoma on July 18-21, 2012.
This summer's workshop will be followed by other national and regional workshops in the next three years, by short-courses at national geoscience meetings, and by webinars.
Project Leaders:
Heather Macdonald, College of William and Mary
Eric Baer, Highline Community College
Robert Blodgett, Austin Community College
Jan Hodder, University of Oregon
This work is supported by the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education through grants DUE 1122592, 1122640, 1122660, and 1122737.
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