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Using The Campus Environment As A Classroom, Jesse Minor
Using The Campus Environment As A Classroom, Jesse Minor
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University campuses are multi-purpose spaces, with public institution campuses typically hosting a suite of functions serving local communities, including access to libraries and scholarship, adult learning programs, and episodic events such as public health campaigns and tax preparation support. University campuses also provide excellent spaces for activities that enhance and support their educational mission, including open space that can be used for course-based research, inquiry-led projects, methods training in the social and natural sciences, and artistic work. Here, I explain how I have used the UMaine Farmington campus to teach inquiry-based environmental science while providing campus-based service-learning to the community …
Supporting The First Year Transition Through Experiential Learning, Linda Beck, Jesse Minor
Supporting The First Year Transition Through Experiential Learning, Linda Beck, Jesse Minor
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In this piece, we describe UMaine Farmington's innovative First Year Fusion program, which merges an experiential pre-semester field week with a shortened half-semester first year seminar. Fusion courses were piloted to provide additional support and programming to first-generation and out-of-state students. We explain the reasons behind developing this program, the benefits to students of participation in Fusion courses, and some initial findings in terms of student success. We also explain how First Year Fusion was adapted to accommodate COVID pandemic disruptions to teaching and travel.
A Sky Island Fire Ecology Primer, With A Focus On Chiricahua National Monument: A Reference Document For The National Park Service, Andrew M. Barton, Helen M. Poulos
A Sky Island Fire Ecology Primer, With A Focus On Chiricahua National Monument: A Reference Document For The National Park Service, Andrew M. Barton, Helen M. Poulos
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Fire is a keystone ecological process in the vegetation of the Sky Islands of Arizona and beyond, affecting every aspect of these ecosystems, including soils, forest structure, species composition, carbon storage, wildlife populations, and much more. For thousands of years, wildfires have been, not a disruptive external force, but an intrinsic part of these natural communities, as integral as water, sunlight, soil, and air. Times have changed. Human-induced fire suppression and climate change have dramatically altered fire regimes across the region, and the fires of the 21st century are a serious problem. Not only are uncharacteristically large and intense fires …