10–Year Strategic Plan
Enhancing our facilities
- Construct a high-tech classroom/conference center for course lectures and continuing education workshops, seminars, and conference for adults.
- Develop new laboratories with instrumentation for geophysical, GIS and remote sensing technology, environmental monitoring and water analysis, and a new computer lab to facilitate instruction using data bases and computational models.
- Replace and renovate housing to accommodate diverse groups of participants in instructional and outreach activities.
- Improve the recreational areas of the campus to generate additional revenue through increased use of the facility during the off season by church and school groups.
ESSENTIAL GOALS
- Enhancement of infrastructure
- Expansion of program
Infrastructure enhancement will permit program expansion leading to additional revenue generation.
Expansion of our Instructional Mission and Outreach
- Sustain our capstone field–learning experience for geoscience undergraduates, continuing the process of integrating technology components with the course.
- Develop laboratory–based analyses to complement field studies of water resources and environmental geology in local watersheds.
- Create new discipline–specific graduate field courses for geoscience majors that draw participants nationally and internationally.
- Serve as a venue for field–based continuing education courses, workshops, and conferences for industry and professional societies.
- Provide outstanding pre–college students and their teachers with an early exposure to the intellectual challenge and satisfaction of field geoscience, and thereby encourage them to pursue careers in our discipline.
- Heighten public awareness of the importance of field–based geoscience through outreach activities, especially travel/learning/ adventure programs for non-professional adults.
- Utilize our expanded curriculum as a foundation for research into the best practices of teaching geoscience in the field.

