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Delgado Community College Presentation Comments  

Given the low percentage of students taking geoscience and the lack of a major at your college, the number of geoscience bachelors degrees is not bad. You should talk to those graduates and ask them what made a difference.

Do you have your the means of getting your own demographic data, if the administration doesn’t deliver?

Have you brought in people who study natural disasters to talk to your students?

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It seems like you're really calling attention to your institution's need to track ethnicity/race data in or of a fine-grained way. In this sense, you're institutional change agents :-)

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Excellent work despite lacking data on diversity by course enrollments in Geosciences! How are you going to establish relationships between program advisors and geoscience faculty? this question is for both Karen and Diondra.

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Well done! Do not worry. Biology is the 800 lb gorilla in our room at SCCC also. I really like that you did the 4 year tracking and intend to do so at my institution.

If your data folks can swallow their pride and my data folks feel charitable, the data package that my data folks provide is phenomenal. It is a spreadsheet with all kinds of sorting macros. Perhaps we can connect these folks?

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Great to have established what seems like a good relationship with your research office! Super that they have the transfer data and sounds like that will be getting you some of the other data. Think your work to get the word out about the value of the geo and environmental science courses including the natural disasters course is good. And great to work on increasing the success rate.

Thanks,

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Great that you can track folks who go on to earn bachelor's degrees in geoscience after leaving Delgado. We need to figure out how to do this at my institution.

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Cool. Your data issues are really interesting to me. You got some data almost no one else could get (transfers), and were not able to get some data that almost all generally can get (students in classes broken out by race/ethnicity).
Where do your students transfer to?
Diondra, I would like to know what you thought of this process of looking at data as a chemist and an administrator. Is it something you think would be good for chemistry to do? What about other areas that you supervise?
Karen, Does looking at this data have any impact on what you are thinking about in terms of your work with the greenway?

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Karen & Diondra,
Really interesting to see the parallels (few majors, small number of faculty) and the differences (ability to get ethnicity/racial data) between our two campuses.

Affirmation: I think your strategies are cohesive and make sense based on your context.

Question: I'm not sure what a program advisor is. Is this like academic counseling?

Comment: Every semester, I take geography majors to the local four-year institution. We attend a seminar in the department (usually a visiting scientist or grad student presenting their research), meet with the geography program advisor, and meet with campus admissions. About 5-10 majors attend, and I think it has helped to build the relationship among faculty and for the students.

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Karen, can you say a few words about the Natural Disasters course you teach? Do you get a different student population taking this course vs. your intro. geology course?

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Originally Posted by Scott Gianelli


Given the low percentage of students taking geoscience and the lack of a major at your college, the number of geoscience bachelors degrees is not bad. You should talk to those graduates and ask them what made a difference.

Do you have your the means of getting your own demographic data, if the administration doesn’t deliver?

Have you brought in people who study natural disasters to talk to your students?



Thank you for the suggestion. I think an exit interview of sorts is a great idea.

To collect and distribute the demographic data from a course, we would need approval from the internal review board.

We have had discussions of having community involvement with presentations and hopefully we will accomplish this after we solidify our return to normalcy.

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Originally Posted by Eric Baer


Cool. Your data issues are really interesting to me. You got some data almost no one else could get (transfers), and were not able to get some data that almost all generally can get (students in classes broken out by race/ethnicity).
Where do your students transfer to?
Diondra, I would like to know what you thought of this process of looking at data as a chemist and an administrator. Is it something you think would be good for chemistry to do? What about other areas that you supervise?
Karen, Does looking at this data have any impact on what you are thinking about in terms of your work with the greenway?



Most of our students transfer to University of New Orleans.

I will use this as a model for chemistry. I will incorporate other subject areas such as physics as well. I also serve on the Program Review Committee and this project brings light to many things we overlook.

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