Workshop Program

Heads and Chairs of Earth and Space Science Departments

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Sunday December 2, 2012, AGU Meeting

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InterContinental San Francisco, Ballroom B
888 Howard Street (directly adjacent to the Moscone West Convention Center)

8:00-8:15 Sign-in, breakfast available

8:15-8:30 Welcome, Introductions, Workshop Goals - Pranoti Asher, AGU and Sally Sutton, Colorado State University

8:30-9:40 Retention of Faculty in Today's Academic Environment (Acrobat (PDF) 4MB Dec2 12) - John Geissman, University of Texas Dallas

Related resources:

• Recruiting and Retaining Faculty, from the Building Strong Geoscience Departments website
• Recruiting a Diverse Faculty, from the Building Strong Geoscience Departments website
• Tomorrow's Professor Mailing List, from Rick Reis, Stanford University
• Making Use of Mentors, from the National Institute for Faculty Equity
• Faculty Retention Toolkit, from the University of Washington

9:40-10:00 Break

10:00-11:00 Evaluating Your Faculty (Acrobat (PDF) 116kB Dec2 12) - John Harbor, Purdue University and Lydia Fox, University of the Pacific

11:00-11:50 Small group discussions

• New chairs
• Field trips:
  • Handout from Matt James: Organizing department field trips (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 120kB Dec2 12)
  • On the Cutting Edge website: Designing effective field learning experiences
• Student recruitment
• Challenges of rapid growth in enrollments

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11:50-12:00 Opportunities and Resources for Departments - Dave Mogk and Chris Keane

• InTeGrate: Interdisciplinary Teaching of Geoscience for a Sustainable Future (Acrobat (PDF) 1MB Dec2 12) 
  Project website: InTeGrate
• Discipline-Based Education Research (Acrobat (PDF) 481kB Dec2 12) 
  Website: Discipline-Based Education Research in the Geosciences
• Resources from the American Geosciences Institute (more info) , including resources on the Geoscience workforce.
• Resources from the American Institute of Physics

12:00-1:30 Lunch

Business Meeting (overview of AGU Board of Heads and Chairs and election of new members of the Executive Committee of the Board of Heads & Chairs) - Sally Sutton, Colorado State University

Informal discussion on MOOCs, moderated by Chris Keane, AGI

Related resources:

• Chris' presentation: Online learning and the geosciences (Acrobat (PDF) 441kB Dec2 12)
• Teaching Geoscience Online
• Sloan Consortium
• Merlot: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
• Website for the Introduction to Artificial Intelligence MOOC at Stanford University

1:30-2:15 Role of a Chair, Setting a Vision, Building Community (Acrobat (PDF) 1.8MB Dec2 12) - Marjorie Chan, University of Utah

Related resources from the Building Strong Geoscience Departments website:

• Geoscience departments' mission and vision statements
• Defining strong departments
• Becoming a valued member of your institution

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2:15-3:00 The Role of the Chair as a Mentor (Acrobat (PDF) 68kB Dec10 12) - Susan Lozier, Duke University

Related resources:

• MPOWIR: Mentoring Physical Oceanography Women to Increase Retention
• Making Use of Mentors, from the National Institute for Faculty Equity
• MentorNet: Mentoring in Engineering and Science

3:00-3:10 Break

3:10-4:15 Legal issues for Chairs (Acrobat (PDF) 177kB Dec2 12) - Sally Sutton, Colorado State University

Related resources:

• AAUP: Issues in Higher Education
• Legal Issues Facing Department Chairs, from the American Political Science Association
• American Council on Education

4:15-4:45 Discussion

4:45-5:00 Closing remarks and workshop evaluation

5:00-6:00 Reception

The reception will take place in Ballroom A.