Workshop for Early Career Geoscience Faculty

July 25-29, 2021, with an optional visit to NSF, August 3-4

The application deadline for this workshop has passed and this workshop has already taken place. See presentations and resources on the Program page.

The workshop was held remotely using Zoom.

Join us for a multi-day workshop in a stimulating and resource-rich environment where you will participate in sessions on topics including effective teaching strategies, course design, establishing a research program in a new setting, working with research students, balancing professional and personal responsibilities, and time management.

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Participants from prior workshops write:

"The workshop for early career faculty was hands down the most useful and impactful experience I have had in starting my faculty career. It has helped me implement new and effective teaching tools, time management tools, and student management/advising strategies, and has helped me find a network of colleagues that I can turn to for support."

"I attended the Workshop for Early Career Geoscience Faculty in my 2nd year as an assistant professor in an interdisciplinary department with a balanced teaching and research mission. Being in the same room as other early career faculty who had a wide spectrum of academic responsibilities related to the breakdown of teaching-research-service helped me better understand how my academic niche fit in with academia in general, and helped me identify gaps in our educational system that I continue to work on even now."

"The Workshop for Early Career Geoscience Faculty was an amazing and eye-opening experience, and it plugged me into a network that has been incredibly supportive as I have grown in this profession."

"The Early Career workshop helped me start my faculty job off on the right foot and maximize my time and energy. I learned so much and loved the format and supportive environment."

The Early Career Geoscience Faculty workshop is for faculty in their first three years of a tenure-track or equivalent position, with priority given to applicants entering their second or third years in their position. If you are in the process of applying for tenure-track or other permanent faculty positions, we encourage you to apply to the Preparing for an Academic Career workshop, which is hosted at Earth Educators Rendezvous each year. Participants must have a full-time faculty position at a two-year or four-year college or a university at the time of the workshop and must be in their first three years of full-time teaching or starting a full-time position in the Fall. See the overview page for details.

Workshop Facilitators

• Josh Galster, Earth & Environmental Studies, Montclair State University
• Benjamin Laabs, Department of Geosciences, North Dakota State University
• Martin Wong, Department of Geology, Colgate University
• Anantha Aiyyer, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University
• Hendratta Ali, Geosciences, Fort Hays State University
• Jennifer Anderson, Department of Geoscience, Winona State University
• Julie Baldwin, Department of Geosciences, University of Montana
• Erika McPhee-Shaw, Department of Environmental Sciences, Western Washington University
• Gretchen Miller, Natural Sciences Department, Physical Sciences, Wake Technical Community College
• Joan Ramage, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University
• Carol Ormand, Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College

This workshop is part of the On the Cutting Edge professional development program for current and future geoscience faculty, and is sponsored by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers with funding provided by NAGT, and a grant from the National Science Foundation - Division of Undergraduate Education and other contributing sponsors.