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IGERT

IGERT. It is all about the students. IGERT program intends to:. Provide a cultural change in graduate education by… Establishing new models for graduate education and training for… Students who will pursue careers in research and education and…

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IGERT

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  1. IGERT It is all about the students

  2. IGERT program intends to: • Provide a cultural change in graduate education by… • Establishing new models for graduate education and training for… • Students who will pursue careers in research and education and… • Support an integrative research-based graduate education experience

  3. The research theme is secondary • Must have a comprehensive interdisciplinary research theme • Must be integrative • BUT… • The focus is on the educational experience, the training, the courses, how you will get the students to have interdisciplinary experiences

  4. Diverse disciplines & Departments

  5. Adaptive Management: Water, Wetlands, and Watersheds IGERT • Engineering • Education • Law • CLAS • CALS

  6. Core courses including Team taught courses • Ecosystem Modeling (Environmental Engineering) • Watersheds (Env. Eng., SNRE, Forestry, Law) • Water Politics (Political Science, Women’s Studies) • Leadership, ethics, and communication (Women’s Studies, SNRE) • Field courses • Everglades (Env. Eng., WEC, Law) • Botswana (Env. Eng, Law, Women’s Studies, Geology, Geography, Political Science) • Costa Rica (Law, Env. Eng.)

  7. Training experiences at international sites

  8. Other educational elements • Fostering strong interactions among students and among faculty • Innovative educational methods • Develop in the students an appreciation for interdisciplinary work and for the broad global impacts of their research • Encourage ‘side bar’ projects • The PI and/or a Co-PI has to be on each student’s committee

  9. Homeless waifs?

  10. Other elements • Engage undergraduates – how will you do this? • Disseminate the innovative graduate education activities – how will you do this? • Institutionalization of successful elements – how will you do this? • Recruiting underrepresented students – how will you do this? • How will you handle ‘associate’ students? • How will you fund international students?

  11. Evaluation plan • Student learning outcomes • Faculty learning • Institutional learning • Recruiting success • Dissemination success • Trainee follow-up – jobs! • Research results

  12. It is ALL about the students!

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