[Itg_workforce13] Thank you/next steps

[Rick Ford]

Greetings, All:
Does anyone have experience with, or knowledge of, the ACAT geology exam,
specifically its use as an end-of-program assessment? I'm curious, as I
just recently learned of its use as a less-expensive alternative to the
ASBOG exam.
http://www.collegeoutcomes.com/

Thanks,
Rick Ford

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Richard L. (Rick) Ford, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Chair

Department of Geosciences
Weber State University
2507 University Circle
Ogden, UT 84408-2507

Science Lab Bldg. (Rm 202MC)
Office: 801.626.6942
FAX: 801.626.7445
rford at weber.edu





On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Cathy Manduca <cmanduca at carleton.edu> wrote:

> Greetings all -
> It was wonderful working with you last week at the InTeGrate workshop on
> Geoscience and the 21st Century Workforce.  I learned a tremendous amount
> from all of you and am very excited about the vision we have in place for
> next steps.   I understand that many of you got the opportunity to have
> extended post-workshop interactions at the Harrisburg Airport.  I hope that
> the opportunity to talk further helped balance out the pain of the delay.
>
> I have now updated the workshop summary based on the comments in the
> discussion thread.
> http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/workshops/workforce2013/part_workspace/fri-summary.html
> If you could take a look and send any feedback by next Friday July 12 we
> will move forward in making the page live.
>
> You will see that I embedded links to your workspace pages in the summary.
>  Those pages are not yet live.  Karin will be working to create live pages
> from this information, integrating them with the information that existed
> previously on the Building Strong Geoscience Departments website.  I've
> included links to those resources in the summary as well.  If your group
> would like to be involved in this work please let Karin know.  If you had
> any remaining information that you wanted to make sure got onto your page,
> please move forward expeditiously and be in touch with Karin.
>
> On the same page with our summary, you will find our action plan (this is
> not going to go public).  Several of the items now have leaders from the
> workshop conveners or participants.  If you are interested in working on
> these activities, please let us know by contacting either the relevant
> leader, or sending me an email.   This is a great list of next steps and I
> appreciate your enthusiasm.   We will use this list to keep you up to date
> on progress and to engage you in activities.
>
> The work at this end over the next two months will focus on moving all
> that we have learned into pages on the public site.   We have wonderful
> information about student pathways to careers, program design, career
> mentoring, the workforce situation, and the changing role of academia
> thanks to your contributions to the workshop.   We will be in touch as this
> moves forward.  If you have additional resources or references that you
> would like to see incorporated, you can use the Share a Reference link on
> the workshop website or send them directly to Karin.  If you have ideas for
> the website, don't hesitate to share them with us.
>
> Lastly, I want to bring to your attention some resources that were
> completed just before the workshop. We have added information about the
> workforce for students with an associates degree developed by the SAGE 2YC
> project to the Workforce Outlook page.  Complementing the info on this page
> are profiles from six of the employers who attended the workshop.  They
> talk in more length about the skills they are looking for in employees and
> the job outlook in their particular areas.  We would like to expand this
> collection -- if you have suggestions of individuals who would be good
> additions to the list, please let Karin know.    Finally, David Gosselin,
> unable to make it to the workshop produced two pages of interest -- one on
> learning outcomes and a second on competencies vs learning outcomes.  We
> welcome your feedback on all of these pages and suggestions for what would
> make them move valuable to you.
>
> This email list distributes to all who participated in the workshop.  Any
> member of the list can post to the list.  I encourage you to make use of it
> to continue workshop discussions, to ask questions, and to learn from one
> another.  While email lists are pretty simple technology, they are the best
> networking tool we know of.
>
> Thank you again.  We made some great strides.
>
> Happy 4th!!
>
> Cathy
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> Cathryn A. Manduca
> Director, Science Education Resource Center
> Executive Director, National Association of Geoscience Teachers
>
> Carleton College
> 1 N College Street
> Northfield MN  55057
> 507 222 7096
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