2018 Workshop for Heads and Chairs of Earth and Space Sciences Departments
Sunday, December 9, 2018, AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, DC
Location: Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel, Room 8-9
999 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001 Registration is closed.
This one-day workshop provides an opportunity for heads and chairs of Earth and Space Science departments to discuss issues and strategies for building a strong department, meet other heads and chairs, and learn more about current issues. The workshop program includes sessions on the topics listed below.
- Welcome by Pranoti Asher, Higher Education Manager, American Geophysical Union
- Introduction by Gary Solar, Chair of Department of Earth Sciences and Science Education, Buffalo State College and Chair, Board of AGU Heads and Chairs
- Morning session:
- Inclusive Graduate Education Network: Changing the face of graduate student participation in the physical sciences by Theodore Hodapp, American Physical Society and Julie Posselt, University of Southern California
- Optimizing your Faculty Workload Equity Issues by Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts
- How to Prepare and Conduct a Successful External Review of your Department by Lisa Boush, University of Connecticut
- Report about Improving Geoscience Graduate Student Preparedness by Sharon Mosher, University of Texas at Austin
- Update from the American Geosciences Institute about Workforce Issues by Christopher Keane, AGI
- Lunch, small group discussions, and business meeting
- Small group discussions (based on participant interest)
- As part of the business meeting during lunch, we will elect new members of the Executive Committee of the Board of Heads and Chairs
- Afternoon session:
- Strategies to address and eliminate bullying in your department by Erika Marin-Spiotta, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Mary Anne Holmes, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Blair Schneider, University of Kansas; and Moses Milazzo, USGS
- Updates from SERC and opportunities for 2019 by Cathy Manduca, SERC, Carleotn College
- U.S. National Committees for the Geosciences—Facilitating International Relations by Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, University of California, Merced and Chair, U.S. National Committee for Soil Science
- Reception
Board of the AGU Heads and Chairs of Earth and Space Science Departments, 2017-2018
Tracy Frank, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Past Chair)
John Geissman, University of Texas at Dallas
John Gierke, Michigan Technological University
Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts (Vice Chair)
Gary Solar, Buffalo State College (Chair)
Katherine Straub, Susquehanna University
Workshop Support
Pranoti Asher, Higher Education Manager, AGU
Heather Macdonald, College of William and Mary
Mitchell Awalt, Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Contributing Partners
The workshop website is supported by NSF under grant DUE-0817353 to the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the National Science Foundation. The workshop is supported by the Building Strong Geoscience Departments project and AGU.