2023 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2023

Session

(CAP) W1-2 Building Stronger Physics Departments | Construire des départements de physique plus forts (ACP)

W1-2

21 Jun 2023, 10:30

University of New Brunswick

Conveners

(CAP) W1-2 Building Stronger Physics Departments | Construire des départements de physique plus forts (ACP)

• Chitra Rangan

4042. Using The Effective Practices for Physics Programs (EP3) Guide to Guide Recruitment and Retention Efforts

Michael Wittmann (APS)

21/06/2023, 10:30

Other Sessions or Meetings / Autres séances ou réunions

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

Surveys of physics department chairs show that one of the most common threats faced by departments in 2022 were low student enrollments, sometimes putting the whole department in threat of closure. The EP3 Guide (ep3guide.org) provides a set of practices and strategies to help with both the recruitment and the retention of students. In this workshop, we will discuss a scenario from a fictional...