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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 more0
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 more0
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 more0
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 more0
A Weather Station for UWFox - Grant Proposal
I recently submitted a campus improvement grant to the UW-Fox Valley Foundation for the purchase of a weather station. We'll see how it turns out... Read more0
Push & Pull Factors Assignment, Spring 2011
Every semester, I give students a basic assignments asking them to "Rate the States." After they do that, we work through some simple analyses as a bridge into discussing push and pull factors. Here are the results from my Spring 2011 courses at the University of Akron. Read more
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Human-Environment Interactions in the Great Plains - A Lecture
I was asked last week to give a lecture through Compressed Video, a technology used to teach non-online distance education classes. The reason? A preliminary job interview with a university in Wisconsin. It was about as nervous and awkward of an experience as you could expect. I don't really give myself much chance of making it to the next stage. We'll see, I guess. Read more0
My New E-Mail Policy, for my Classes
I've gotten a ton of really ridiculous e-mails this semester. I've decided to implement the following policies for my courses.... taken right out of my syllabus. Read more0
