Initial Publication Date: August 10, 2015
Icebreaker Activity-Resource Providers and Education Researchers
To introduce ourselves, and to inform our discussions over the next couple of days, please respond to the following:
- Write 3 words (or short phrases) that define how you plan to impact broadening participation in the geosciences
- Write 3 words (or sort phrases) that describes your institution; and
- Write 6 words that describes who you are, and what your interests are in attending this workshop.
Responses will be recorded on sticky notes, and posted on larger flip charts to aggregate your answers.
Take a look at the responses that have been submitted. In a group discussion, identify responses you thought were particularly interesting, important or intriguing. Did common themes, challenges or opportunities emerge? Participants are invited to comment on contributions that were identified for further inquiry.
Participant Responses
- Targeted resources
- Community network
- Information for faculty
- Remove barriers to trust
- Collaborate (2)
- Investigate
- Participate
- Studying interest in STEM
- Retention! Retention! Retention!
- Convey
- Encourage
- Relate
- Fairness
- Opportunities for all
- We all lose if ALL don't participate
- Availability
- Open participation
- Fun
- Access (3)
- Relevancy (2) How to make materials relevant
- Prestige
- Engage URMs in introductory classes
- Engaging communications
- Support grad students
- Build bridges to 2YCs MRIs
- Highlight effective programs
- Target research/ conduct research
- Share best practices
- Support students (2)
- Disseminate findings
- Provide cool opportunities (2)
- Open eyes
- Connect
- Participation through engagement with K-12 teachers
- Providing curriculum that encourages
- Using innovative approaches to presenting geoscience
- Dialogue
- Planning for success
- Learn why or why not
- Prevent drippage
- Contact
- Listen
- Programs
- Make materials interesting
- Facility (2)
- National
- Non-profit
- Behavioral and social Science Research Organization
- Discovery
- Innovative
- Education
- Community
- State-wide
- Small
- Public
- Small but mighty
- High quality resource
- Overwhelming
- HUGE
- Commuter 4 year
- Suburban
- Rural
- Urban (2)
- Undergraduate-focused
- Education focused
- Resource limited (2)
- Primarily undergraduate institution (2)
- Minority Serving Institution (2)
- High teaching load
- Land Grant
- Traditional geology
- Mostly white and working
- First generation
- Isolated
- 2YC (2)
- 40% transfer
- Tuition-dependent
- Excellence in science education
- professional development focus
- Extending impact
- Old science agency in the federal government
- Incredible contribution to our discipline
- Smallest budget of science agencies
- R1 Wannabe (2)
- Research-focus (2); Cutting Edge Science
- Geologically rich
- Over-enrolled
- Geologically Active region
- Beautiful
- Leader
- Issue has played out over entire career
- Education, collaboration, and action
- Connect with learning scientists to know more
- Learn, share and network with others
- Creative, innovative paths to the geosciences
- Contribute to conversation about equity in geoscience
- I'm here to observe and learn (2)
- I want to contribute, learn, generate new ideas
- Share, explore, deepen knowledge, new ideas , improve experience for URMs in my department
- Nicole asked, suport students success and access
- Meet people and brainstorm cool new ideas
- To learn and collaborate and find real solutions
- Explore the Earth, share the knowledge
- Overcome own biases to remove barriers
- Co-PI interested in research on diversity
- Help shape the future, learn and share
- collaborate with others and increase understanding
- Social capital commentary as discussion seed
- Share experience with devoping effective materials and explore how to make locally relevant (flexible)