Building Strong Geoscience Departments
On the Cutting Edge - Building Strong Geoscience Departments managed by NAGT Workshops Developing Pathways to Strong Geoscience Programs for the Future Defining Strong Departments Characteristics of Strong ...

Criteria for Success part of Defining Strong Departments
This list of indicators of successful programs and assessment strategies was developed by participants at the 2005 workshop on Developing Pathways to Strong Departments for the Future. While no single indicator ...

Managing a Department part of Department Heads and Chairs
× Managing a department is very different from managing your own academic career. As the head or chair of a department, it is your job to prepare budgets, allocate resources, help resolve problems, evaluate ...

Advancing By Retreating part of Department Heads and Chairs
A faculty retreat can be an effective yet daring way to address difficult issues that arise in academic departments. Whether the issues deal with developing a hiring plan, restructuring curricula, or coping with ...

Becoming a Valued Member of Your Institution part of Making a Case for your Department
View the talk using Quicktime (Quicktime Video 181.2MB Dec3 07) Offer a service learning course that will benefit your local community. Think about your departments' strengths and how you can contribute to ...

Matrix Approaches to Program and Curriculum Design part of Degree Programs
Mapping program learning outcomes and course activities in a matrix provides a rich graphical portrait of program content and can be used as a starting point for program assessment. Geology departments at several ...

SWOT Analysis part of Degree Programs
× This web page was written by Carol Ormand. A SWOT analysis is a tool that originated in the business world (Learned et al., 1969) but is useful for any kind of strategic planning. It's a relatively ...

Logic Models part of Degree Programs
This web page was written by Carol Ormand. In terms of articulating your outputs, outcomes, and impacts, begin with the impacts you want to achieve, and work your way back toward outputs. The impacts are your ...

What Makes a Strong Program Design? part of Degree Programs
× Program-level learning outcomes encompass knowledge, skills, and personal attributes that are not the domain of a single course. Work towards these outcomes can be integrated into programs at many levels, ...

Keeping Curricula Current part of Degree Programs
How Can Geoscience Curricula Prepare Our Students for the Future? This presentation, by Mary Savina, was given at the April 2007 workshop on Connecting Geoscience Departments to the Future of Science: New ...