The Geo2YC Organizational Committee is pleased to announce
that the Geoscience at Two-Year Colleges (Geo2YC) Division has become the
first professional interest division of the National Association of Geoscience
Teachers (NAGT). The Geo2YC Division has received start-up funding from the
NAGT Executive Committee to launch its mission to:
1) serve as a forum
for exchanging information about 2YC geoscience programs
2) create a
professional network for geoscience education at two-year colleges and other
institutions with shared interests
3) sponsor NAGT 2YC activities and
make recommendations to the NAGT Council
4) support and coordinate
research on 2YC geoscience education
5) advocate for 2YC geoscience
education within NAGT and other organizations
We welcome all NAGT members,
including four-year college and university faculty with similar interests and
concerns, to join the Geo2YC Division.
For Geo2YC to
become a success we need your ideas and participation. One way to participate is
to nominate yourself or a colleague to become an officer. Below are the primary
duties and requirements for Geo2YC officers:
President - current
or former 2YC professor serves 1-year term followed by 5 years on the Nominating
and Election Committee
a. Convenes and chairs Executive Board
meetings
b. Attends NAGT Council meetings or designates an
alternate
c. Writes Division newsletter column and annual report for
NAGT
Vice-President - current or former 2YC professor serves 1
year-term before becoming President
a. Participates in Executive Board
meetings
b. Coordinates with liaisons to NAGT
sections
Secretary/treasurer - serves 3-year term
a. Takes
Executive Board meeting minutes
b. Tracks budget and maintains financial
records and bank account
Newsletter Editor - serves 3-year
term
a. Participates in Executive Board meetings
b. Edits
quarterly electronic newsletter and sends news to other
media
Webmaster - serves 3-year term
a. Participates in
Executive Board meetings
b. Maintains and updates Division website on
NAGT server
Archivist - serves 3-year term
a. Participates in
Executive Board meetings
b. Archives documents, records, and images, and
maintains membership roster
Please send the names and contact
information for officer nominations to me at this address by Thursday, September 15. Membership sign-up, election of Geo2YC
officers, and adoption of Division bylaws will occur later this month on the
NAGT website.
We'd love to have you join
Geo2YC!
Regards,
Bob Blodgett
UPDATE: Here is the URL for Geo2YC: http://nagt.org/nagt/divisions/2yc/ . The actual page is http://nagt.org/nagt/divisions/2yc/index.html but you can
access it within out adding index.html.
