Tag: stand-alone geographer

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UWFox's Geography Offerings for 2012-13

I was only on the job about a month at UWFox before I got an email from the associate dean asking me for my proposed curriculum for the next academic year. Wait, what? You mean I get to decide what we're offering in geography for an entire school year? That's nuts! I'm not a department chair or anything, and I've certainly never designed or proposed a curriculum. Hell, I haven't even completed one semester as a full-fledged faculty member yet... Read more

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Promoting UWFox Geography, Fall 2011: An Active Geo-Adventurers Club

Our main goal with the Geo-Adventurers is to get students active in extra-curricular activities. In the case of this club, most of those activities involve getting down and dirty with the earth, which provides a natural link to the geoscience curriculum at UWFox. But again, first goal is involvement, and anything that happens after that is icing on the cake. Read more

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Promoting UWFox Geography, Fall 2011: Marketing Spring Courses

Let's face it: higher education is, for better or for worse, all about the numbers.  If our enrollment suffers, it's likely to be curtains for budget and for fun upper-level classes.  However, if enrollment grows, so does our department.  The other, even more crucial point is, of course, that both geography and geology are fields that have to recruit from within.  More enrollees give us more chance to bring students to the "dark side." Read more

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Promoting UWFox Geography, Fall 2011: Growing interest in the discipline and, hence, our little department

By raising the (quite low) awareness of what geography is as a discipline, it raises the potential for interest from students.  By growing interest with potential students, we've got a better chance at increasing the enrollment, therefore awareness is important in this job. Read more

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Promoting UWFox Geography, Fall 2011

As the only geographer, I'm responsible for everything related to the geography at the school, including awareness, planning, curriculum, you name it. Of course, this week, I worked with a local GIS user group to plan and promote a GIS Day event, which ended up being pretty damn successful. In fact, it was looking back during that promotional process -- of an event that itself was promotional in nature -- that made me realize that I've done A LOTof that since I've been at UWFox... enough to justify a new blog entry highlighting my latest work as a PR officer. It's just one of the many hats of a stand-alone geographer, the experience for which I've now started a separate blog category to explore. Read more