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Overall Workshop GoalsPlease indicate your level of agreement for whether or not the goals of the workshop were met.

Build capacity of individuals and institutions to offer geoscience courses, curricula, and/or extracurricular programs at minority-serving institutions or institutions that have a significant population of students from underrepresented groups;

Offer professional development to faculty and administrators who have limited experience in the geosciences and who plan to build competence and capacity;

Support individuals in developing an Action Plan to design (or revise) a course, curriculum or extracurricular program that will increase awareness of, engagement in, or instruction in Earth Sciences at MSIs, 2YCs and other institutions serving underrepresented students;

Synthesize and post finished Action Plans on the Geo-Needs website in order to share examples of course, curricular, and extracurricular innovations with the broader geoscience community.

How has this workshop influenced your thinking about the issues surrounding diversity in the geosciences?

How will you use and/or apply what you learned at the workshop in your own work with underrepresented minority students?

What challenges (if any) do you foresee having to overcome in your efforts to use or apply what you have learned at the workshop?

Workshop Facilitation and LogisticsPlease tell us how satisfied or dissatisfied you were with the following.

How satisfied were you with the format of the workshop activities?

How satisfied were you with the workshop facilitators?

How satisfied were you with the accommodations and workshop venue?

How did you feel about the length of workshop activities?

Workshop Content and OutcomesPlease indicate your level of agreement with the following statements.

The pre-workshop communications gave me the information I needed to learn about and prepare for the workshop.

Materials on the website were useful in preparing for the workshop.

The content of the workshop was appropriate and informative.

The discussion during the workshop adequately addressed the questions presented by the facilitators.

I learned about new strategies and resources at the workshop that I can use to develop or improve the geoscience courses/curriculum/program at my institution.

I was given the opportunity to actively participate in the workshop activities and discussion.

After participating in the workshop, I feel more confident in my ability to design an action plan to engage students from underrepresented groups in the Earth Sciences.

After participating in the workshop, I feel more confident in my ability to implement an action plan to engage students from underrepresented groups in the Earth Sciences.

The facilitators provided me with the support necessary to develop my action plan.

I was given sufficient time to reflect on what I learned at the Earth Educator Rendezvous and develop personal action plans.

Experience at Earth Educators RendezvousPlease indicate your level of agreement with the following statements.

The action plan was a good way to incorporate new ideas and resources that I learned about at other sessions at the Earth Educator Rendezvous.

I made connections with other faculty and institutions during the Earth Educator Rendezvous conference that will help me develop or improve the geoscience courses/curriculum/program at my institution.

I found new resources at the Earth Educator Rendezvous conference that will help me develop or improve the geoscience courses/curriculum/program at my institution.

Open-Ended Feedback
What kinds of activities and/or topics would you liked to have seen included in the workshop that were not addressed?

What did you like most about the workshop and why?

What did you like least about the workshop and why?

Please comment on your experience with the Earth Educator Rendezvous overall.

Please provide any additional suggestions or comments.

Overall Satisfaction
Please indicate your satisfaction with this workshop by selecting the appropriate number (10=Very Satisfied and 1=Very Dissatisfied).

Comments to explain your rating:

General Rendezvous QuestionsDo you plan on continuing to learn about this topic?

yes no

If yes, how?

DemographicsGender:

Male
Female

Ethnicity (choose one):

Hispanic or Latino
Not Hispanic or Latino

Race (select one or more):
American Indian or Alaska Native
Asian
Black or African American
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
White

Disability status (select one or more):
Hearing Impairment
Visual Impairment
Mobility/Orthopedic Impairment
Other
None

Citizenship (choose one):

U.S. Citizen
Permanent Resident
Other non-U.S. Citizen

Number of years of full-time teaching experience:

Number of years teaching at the college level:

Current position:

Discipline:

or Other discipline:

Will you teach next fall at an institution that serves a large number of minority students?:

Yes
No

Which of the following best describes the department or program in which you will teach next fall:

Two year college (Associate is the highest degree)
Private four-year primarily undergraduate (BS or BA is the highest degree)
Public four-year primarily undergraduate (BS or BA is the highest degree)
Masters granting (MS is the highest degree)
Doctoral granting (PhD is the highest degree)

Earth Educators'
Rendezvous

Madison, WI July 18-22, 2016

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