Workshop Program

Heads and Chairs of Earth and Space Science Departments
Sunday December 13, 2015, AGU Meeting
Location: InterContinental Ballroom B, at the InterContinental San Francisco, 888 Howard St., San Francisco

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7:30 Sign-in, breakfast available

8:00-8:15 Welcome, Introductions, Workshop Goals and Logistics - Pranoti Asher, AGU

8:15-8:30 Introduction - Gary Solar, Buffalo State College and Chair, Board of AGU Heads and Chairs

8:30-9:30 The Two-Body Opportunity (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 3.6MB Dec13 15) - Mary Anne Holmes, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Related resources: the Building Strong Geoscience Departments web page on Recruiting and Retaining Faculty includes pages on Recruiting a Diverse Faculty.

9:30-9:45 Break

9:45-10:45 Work-life Balance (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 46.6MB Dec13 15) - Rebecca Haacker, Director of SOARS, UCAR

Related resources:

• The "On the Cutting Edge" website for early career faculty in the geosciences has a set of web pages on Finding Your Balance.
• Kerry Ann Rockquemore's column on The Sunday Meeting (planning your week on Sunday night), from Inside Higher Ed.
• Polite Ways to Say "No," from Meggin McIntosh.

10:45-11:45 Small group discussions on various topics (based on participant interests indicated on the registration form)

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Discussion topics:

• Faculty retention
• Student recruitment
• Personnel management (see resources on Managing a Department)
• Program/curriculum design

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• De Luca, B.M. and Twale, D.J., 2010. Mediating in the academic bully culture: The chair's responsibility to faculty and graduate students. The Department Chair, 20, pp.1-32.
• Twale, D.J. and De Luca, B.M., 2008. Faculty incivility: The rise of the academic bully culture and what to do about it (Vol. 128). Jossey-Bass.
• Martin, M.M., Goodboy, A.K. and Johnson, Z.D., 2015. When Professors Bully Graduate Students: Effects on Student Interest, Instructional Dissent, and Intentions to Leave Graduate Education. Communication Education, 64(4), pp.438-454.

11:45-12:00 Updates on the Status of the Geoscience Workforce (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 1017kB Dec13 15) - Christopher Keane, American Geosciences Institute

Related resources: AGI's geoscience workforce website, including their geoscience workforce reports

12:00-12:15 Updates on the Geoscience Employer Workshop - Sharon Mosher, The University of Texas at Austin

Related resources:

• Geoscience Employers Workshop Outcomes
• Teaching resources from On the Cutting Edge and InTeGrate support teaching key topics and skills in the geosciences, including
• Developing Student Understanding of Complex Systems in the Geosciences
• Teaching about Rates and Time
• Teaching about Climate Change
• Infusing Sustainability into Your Courses
• Incorporate Expert Ways of Thinking about Earth
• Teaching with Data, Simulations and Models

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12:15-1:00 Lunch and 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)

1:00-2:00 Program Assessment (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 4.6MB Dec13 15) - David Mogk, Montana State University

Related resources:

• The Building Strong Departments website has web pages about
• Program Assessment
• Becoming a Valued Member of Your Institution
• Strategies for Making Your Case
• Matrix Approaches to Program and Curriculum Design
• From "On the Cutting Edge": Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER) Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering
• Dave's Earth Educators' Rendezvous 2015 workshop on Creating the Graduates You Want
• Dave's Earth and Mind blog entries on Curriculum by Design and Curriculum by Design part 2: Student Learning Outcomes and Program Assessment

2:00-3:00 The Importance of Culture in Building Strong Departments (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 12.3MB Dec13 15) - Jacqueline Huntoon, Provost, Michigan Technological University

Related resources:

• Increase the Diversity of Your Graduates
• Stereotype Threat and Solo Status
• Breaking the Prejudice Habit

3:00-3:10 Break

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3:10-4:10 Enhancing the Institutional Value of your Department (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 8.8MB Dec13 15) - Lisa Rossbacher, President, Humboldt State University and Dallas Rhodes, Humboldt State University

Related resources: Becoming a Valued Member of Your Institution

4:10-4:20 Opportunities from NSF - Carol Frost, EAR Division Director, National Science Foundation

4:20-4:30 InTeGrate opportunities for 2016 (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 4.4MB Dec13 15) - Cathy Manduca, SERC, Carleton College

Related resources:

• Current opportunities in InTeGrate, from the InTeGrate project
• Earth Educators' Rendezvous
• NAGT Traveling Workshops Program

4:30-4:40 EarthCube Professional Development Opportunities (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 5.4MB Dec14 15) - Marjorie Chan, Chair, Engagement Team, EarthCube Test Enterprise Governance (University of Utah) & Denise Hills, co-Chair, Engagement Team, EarthCube Test Enterprise Governance (Geological Survey of Alabama)

Related resources: EarthCube Funding Opportunities

4:40-4:45 Wrap up: Closing remarks and workshop evaluation

4:45-5:30 Reception