AAG Newsletter: December 2019
December 2019 Welcome to the Newsletter of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). For more up-to-date news, stories, and announcements, read PRESIDENT'S COLUMN Going Local or How the AAG Can Help Enhance its Regional Divisions By David Kaplan The region is one of geography’s main concepts and, true to these roots, regional divisions—mostly within the United States…
AAG Newsletter: November 2019
November 2019 Welcome to the Newsletter of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). For more up-to-date news, stories, and announcements, read PRESIDENT'S COLUMN Finding your Parachute or The PhD is Not Just for Academics By David Kaplan Graduate students are haunted by the specter of future job uncertainty. Many Master’s students wonder what they will do with…
AAG Newsletter: October 2019
October 2019 Welcome to the Newsletter of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). For more up-to-date news, stories, and announcements, read PRESIDENT'S COLUMN A Golden Opportunity for Geography or How Can we Harness the Growth in AP Human Geography? By David Kaplan Geography was not taught in my high school and I expect that was true in…
AAG Newsletter: September 2019
September 2019 Welcome to the Newsletter of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). For more up-to-date news, stories, and announcements, read PRESIDENT'S COLUMN The Mental Health Challenge or Relieving Anxiety and Depression for Students and Faculty By David Kaplan I remember stress from college, graduate school and as a professor. High levels of tension were considered a…
AAG Newsletter: August 2019
August 2019 Welcome to the Newsletter of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). For more up-to-date news, stories, and announcements, read PRESIDENT'S COLUMN Who’s sorting who? Or the explosion of metrics and how we can take back control By David Kaplan For those of us still working with paper student evaluations, we receive our spring semester results…
AAG Newsletter: July 2019
July 2019 Welcome to the Newsletter of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). For more up-to-date news, stories, and announcements, read PRESIDENT'S COLUMN Should we be worried? Or how to maintain and expand the number of geographers in our schools By David Kaplan “As geographers, we all know the value of geography. Right? It is a field…
AAG Newsletter: June 2019
June 2019 Welcome to the Newsletter of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). For more up-to-date news, stories, and announcements, read PRESIDENT'S COLUMN Postcard from Mesoamerica By Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach “As Geography research begins in the field and ends in the field, so does my Presidential Column. I had the good fortune to be able to compose most…
AAG Newsletter: May 2019
May 2019 Welcome to the Newsletter of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). For more up-to-date news, stories, and announcements, read PRESIDENT'S COLUMN Geography, Green Resolutions, and Graduation By Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach “Complex organizations have complex interests and responsibilities, especially in the 21st century… Together, we Geographers have worked diligently over the last several years to shine a…
AAG Newsletter: April 2019
April 2019 Welcome to the Newsletter of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). For more up-to-date news, stories, and announcements, read PRESIDENT'S COLUMN Harassment-Free AAG: Moving Forward By Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach “I am writing to assure our community that Harassment-Free AAG does not end at the boarding gate for the flight home from the Annual Meeting. In fact,…
AAG Newsletter: March 2019
March 2019 Welcome to the Newsletter of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). For more up-to-date news, stories, and announcements, read PRESIDENT'S COLUMN Harassment-Free AAG: What to expect at the Washington Meeting By Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach and Lorraine Dowler “The AAG charged a task force in Spring 2018 to gather information and recommend programmatic changes in order to envision…
AAG Newsletter: February 2019
February 2019 Welcome to the Newsletter of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). For more up-to-date news, stories, and announcements, read PRESIDENT'S COLUMN AAG Election Underway and Looking Forward to Annual Meeting in Washington DC in April! By Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach AAG president Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach provides the inside scoop on upcoming activities at the AAG Annual Meeting as…
AAG Newsletter: January 2019
January 2019 Welcome to the Newsletter of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). For more up-to-date news, stories, and announcements, read PRESIDENT'S COLUMN Share Your Science, and Make a Difference with Geography at the AAG Annual Meeting in April 2019 By Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach Happy New Year, Geographers and Friends of Geography! There is still much for us,…