Program

Homework

Prior to the workshop:

• please read these three short papers.
  • After GRExit: Reducing Bias in Geoscience Graduate Admissions (EOS, 2022) by Michele L. Cooke, Hannah Baranes, Isla S. Castañeda, Jonathan D. Woodruff and David F. Boutt
  • First-year graduate courses foster inclusion (Acrobat (PDF) 1.1MB Jun27 22) (Nature Geoscience, 2021) by Michele L. Cooke, Mya Breitbart, Emily Cooperdock, Naomi Levin, Nathan Niemi, Christopher Bell, Liane Stevens, and Karen Viskupic
  • Disrupt and demystify the unwritten rules of graduate school (Acrobat (PDF) 824kB Jun27 22) (Nature Geoscience, 2021) by Jennifer Pensky, Christina Richardson, Araceli Serrano, Galen Gorski, Adam N. Price & Margaret Zimmer
• please complete this short pre-survey.

Thursday

8:30 Introductions and icebreakers

8:45 Overview of goals and pre-workshop survey results

9:00 What do students need to be and feel successful in graduate school? Table discussion and share-out

9:30 How well does your application and admissions process assess the qualities that you've identified as necessary for success? Think-Pair-Share

10:00 BREAK

10:15 Grad application and admissions best practices. Slides and discussion

• Purposes and potential pitfalls of application requirements
• Application review and decision making processes

10:45 Action planning around admissions: What is something you want to change, and how will you do it? Individual/collaborative planning time with opportunity for feedback

• Action planning template (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 16kB Jun27 22)

11:20 Road Check (closed)

11:30 Adjourn

Friday

8:30 Roadcheck feedback and overview of the day

8:45 What challenges do your students face? Are there common failure points? How might those be a result of inequitable or unsupportive practices? Table discussion and share out

9:30 Student support best practices. Slides and discussion

• Onboarding courses or activities
• Individual development plans
• Social and administrative structures
• Programmatic supports

10:00 BREAK

10:15 Action planning around student support: What is something you want to change, and how will you do it? Individual/collaborative planning time with opportunity for feedback

11:00 Report out from all of action planning

11:20 Workshop Evaluation 

11:30 Adjourn

Resources

Entering Mentoring from CIMER

The Dignity Project from the University of Minnesota