Recruitment Start early – continue often – involve teachers, parents Tie to culture – provide support for teachers – professional development – opportunities – engage/encourage best prospects Tie to community (place-based) Role models who are minorities and geoscientists Continue/expand opportunities through high school Retention Residential colleges Virtual support/develop communities Building a community – academic support – social support – financial support Undergraduate research opportunities

What did we NOT talk about in this meeting that are potential emerging issues? Hybrid, flipped, non-traditional lectures Integrating new technologies Connections with industry – Keynote speaker – Industry disconnect – Relevant student skills and competencies Internationalization of the discipline Interface between geosciences and grand challenges – Water – Climate change/mitigation – Alternative energies – Disaster resilience – Space exploration, planetary geology, remote sensing

Recommendations, next steps What will help the community to advance/evolve? – Emphasis on emerging fields at the undergrad level – Mitigation – What is the role of the geosciences? – Public outreach, conveying information to politicians, communities How do we prepare students to work in interdisciplinary teams? – Project-based curriculum involving multidisciplinary teams – Course content including real world problems, and problems of the future – Reinforces general/soft skills discussed Day 1 – Potential problem: losing depth of knowledge of traditional curriculum (min/pet, sed/strat) in exchange for breadth of earth systems curriculum Encourage national movement toward including emerging challenges into established/traditional curriculum – Pared down core – Upper-level courses that are more transdisciplinary – Upper-level students take environmental ethics course, economics, etc. Encourage courses tag-team taught by geologist and biologist/economist/meteorologist/etc.