34 Earth Science for Everyone: Diverse Student Populations—Recruiting Techniques for Attracting Them, Curricular and Extracurricular Strategies for Retaining Them

Sunday, 1 May 2005
8:15 AM - 10:20 AM

Presentations

• 8:20 AM
  BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL MINORITY RECRUITING AND GRADUATING PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS
  Laura Serpa, Univ of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
  85071 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 8:40 AM
  REACHING OUT TO COMMUNITIES AND KIDS WITH SCIENCE IN SAN FRANCISCO (SF-ROCKS): USING RESEARCH EXPERIENCES TO INCREASE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT INTEREST IN GEOSCIENCES
  Jennifer R. Davis, San Francisco State Univ, San Francisco, CA and Lisa White, San Francisco State Univ, San Francisco, CA and Karen Grove, San Francisco State Univ, San Francisco, CA and Mary K. Snow, San Francisco State Univ, San Francisco, CA and Elizabeth Frieberg, San Francisco State Univ, San Francisco, CA
  85573 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 9:00 AM
  DEVELOPING INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOR RECRUITING MIDDLE- AND HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS FOR CAREERS IN EARTH SCIENCE: A CASE-STUDY FROM RADFORD UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA
  Parvinder Sethi, Radford Univ, Radford, VA and Phyllis Newbill, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA
  85815 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 9:20 AM
  THE SOUTH BAY GEO-DIVERSITY PROJECT: EARTH SCIENCE FOR ALL STUDENTS
  Richard L. Sedlock, San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA and Ellen P. Metzger, San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA
  85070 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 9:40 AM
  INCORPORATING EARTH SCIENCE CONCEPTS INTO INTRODUCTORY PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY CLASSES
  Ellen P. Metzger, San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA and Richard Sedlock, San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA and William Cruz, The National Hispanic Univ, San Jose, CA
  85410 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 10:00 AM
  METAPHORIC PETROLOGY, AND OTHER PERSONAL CONNECTIONS WITH THE EARTH
  Raymond Pestrong, San Francisco State Univ, San Francisco, CA
  85293 (THEME SESSIONS)