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Beane, Rachel J.; Altermatt, Ellen R.; Iverson, Ellen R.; Macdonald, R. Heather – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2020
The National Association of Geoscience Teachers' "Workshop for Early Career Geoscience Faculty: Teaching, Research, and Managing One's Career" has been offered annually since 1999. The five-day workshop with accompanying web resources employs a "whole faculty" approach to support geoscience faculty members during their…
Descriptors: Workshops, Program Design, Program Effectiveness, Faculty Development
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McDaris, John R.; Iverson, Ellen R.; Manduca, Cathryn A.; Huyck Orr, Cailin – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2019
In the decade since the 2007 "JGE" special issue on broadening participation, much work has been done to draw new voices into the geosciences, and the number of students from underrepresented groups graduating with geoscience degrees has grown. However, the rate of increase is not yet large enough that geoscience demographics represent…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Research, Educational Resources, Earth Science
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Macdonald, R. Heather; Beane, Rachel J.; Baer, Eric M. D.; Eddy, Pamela L.; Emerson, Norlene R.; Hodder, Jan; Iverson, Ellen R.; McDaris, John R.; O'Connell, Kristin; Ormand, Carol J. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2019
Faculty play an important role in attracting students to the geosciences, helping them to thrive in geoscience programs, and preparing them for careers. Thus, faculty have the responsibility to work toward broadening participation in the geosciences by implementing equitable and inclusive practices in their teaching and their programs. Faculty…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Agents, College Faculty, Faculty Development
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McDaris, John R.; Manduca, Cathryn A.; Iverson, Ellen R.; Orr, Cailin Huyck – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2017
Despite gains over the last decade, the geoscience student population in the United States today continues to lag other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines in terms of diversity. Minority-serving institutions (MSIs) can play an important role in efforts to broaden underrepresented student engagement with Earth Science…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Minority Group Students, Colleges, STEM Education