Session Abstracts

Taking Advantage of New Opportunities for Environmental Sciences
The 2003 PKAL Assemblies
What Works - What Matters - What Lasts: The Roles and Responsibilities of Leaders in Undergraduate STEM
Hilton Portland and Executive Tower
September 19 - 21, 2003

Co-sponsors:

• American Conference of Academic Deans (ACAD)
• The Council of Environmental Deans & Directors (CEDD) of the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)
• Soderstrom Architects P.C.
• Education for Sustainability - Western Network (EFS-West)

Application & Hotel Reservation Deadline: September 5, 2003

• Keynote presentation: Building a campus community that is a true environmental learning community
  Nan Jenks-Jay, Director of Environmental Affairs and Planning- Middlebury College

Plenary II:
A kaleidoscope of options for undergraduate environmental (ERE) programs
Moderator:
James Howard, Dean College of Natural Resources and Sciences- Humboldt State University
Panelists:
Brad Smith, Dean, Huxley College of Environmental Sciences- Western Washington University
Anna Cavinato, Chair, Division of Science Mathematics and Technology- Eastern Oregon University
Eileen Cashman, Assistant Professor, Environmental Resources Engineering- Humboldt State University

• At the table breakout session

• Plenary III:
  The work of CEDD

  • Creating coherence among academic environmental programs: The work of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors of the National Council for Science and the Environment
    Brad Smith, Dean, Huxley College of Environmental Sciences- Western Washington University and President-elect- Council of Environmental Deans and Directors

  • Academic Environmental Programs: Who? What? Where?
    David E. Blockstein, Executive Secretary- Council of Environmental Deans and Directors, and Senior Scientist- National Council for Science and the Environment

  • Survey of PKAL participant perspectives on environmental curricula
    Will Focht, Director of the Environmental Institute- Oklahoma State University

• Birds-of-a-feather breakfast

• Plenary IV:
  Complex Environmental Systems: Synthesis for Earth, Life and Society
  Margaret S. Leinen, Assistant Director, NSF- Directorate for Geosciences (invited)
  Stephanie Pfirman, Director of Environmental Studies Program, Barnard College (invited)

• Breakout session I
  Examples of programs & program development

• A balanced portfolio: mixing the social sciences, natural sciences and humanities (from interdisciplinary to trans-disciplinary)
  Lamont C. Hempel, Director for Environmental Studies- University of Redlands

• Evolutionary development of an environmental ecience curriculum (from multi to meta-disciplinary)
  Howard Drossman, Environmental Science Program Director- The Colorado College

• Integrating ethical analysis and scientific analysis in environmental studies
  Russell Butkus, Associate Director- Environmental Studies/Chair, Department of Theology- University of Portland
  Steven A. Kolmes, Director, Environmental Studies Program- University of Portland

• Incorporating service learning opportunities
  Eric Pallant, Director, Center for Economic and Environmental Development and Associate Professor of Environmental Science- Allegheny College

• Breakout session II
  Exemplary approaches to incorporating environmental interests and concerns across the curriculum

• Long-term field site analysis for studying ecosystem level processes
  Randy Fuller, Director of Environmental Studies Program- Colgate University

• Using science controversies in the K-16 classroom to foster public participation in science and technology for a sustainable future: A case study using water
  Joan Marie, Science & Technology Studies- Center for Interdisciplinary Studies- Virginia Tech

• Earth as a planetary system
  Bryan Penprase, Associate Professor of Physics- Pomona College

• Providing undergraduate research opportunities to enrich ERE programs: The Hope College story
  Graham Peaslee, Associate Professor of Chemistry/Environmental Science, Department of Chemistry- Hope College

• Roles and responsibilities of senior administrators in nurturing strong ERE programs
  James Howard, Dean College of Natural Resources and Sciences- Humboldt State University
  Marlene Moore, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Biology- University of Portland
  Gary Reiness, Professor of Biology- Lewis and Clark College

• Breakfast discussion: What works in...

• Breakout session III
  Connecting to the real world

• Who's doing what on the national scene?
  David Blockstein, Executive Secretary, Council of Environmental Deans and Directors, and Senior Scientist- National Council for Science and the Environment

• Connecting to tribal communities
  Anna Cavinato, Chair, Division of Science, Mathematics and Technology- Eastern Oregon University

• Teaching faculty members how to connect with the public
  Cynthia Barakatt, Manager of Training and Outreach- Aldo Leopold Foundation