Get Involved in Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day
Geography Awareness Week is quickly approaching, November 10th - 16th, with GIS Day on November 13th. Below you’ll find GeoWeek and GIS Day resources, announcements, and ways to get involved, big and small. Do what you can to promote our wonderful discipline during the week, and also think about how you can support geography year-round!…
Get Involved in Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day
Geography Awareness Week is just around the corner, November 11th - 17th, with GIS Day on November 14th. Below you’ll find GeoWeek and GIS Day resources, announcements, and ways to get involved, big and small. Do what you can to promote our wonderful discipline during OUR week of the year! Focus on the Theme: The…
Making Every Week About Geography Awareness and Advocacy
This column comes to you just a couple weeks before Geography Awareness Week’s 30th birthday. Founded by presidential proclamation in 1987, Geography Awareness Week (GeoWeek) is observed the third week of November each year. This year’s observance, which takes place November 12-18, highlights the “geography of civil rights movements.” The theme of civil rights fills…
Civil Rights Featured Theme of 2017 Geography Awareness Week: A Call for Participation
Established by a joint resolution of the Congress in 1987, Geography Awareness Week (GAW) is observed the third week in November every year. GAW promotes what geography is, why it is important, and the relevance of a geographic education in preparing citizens to understand and debate pressing social and environmental issues and problems. This year's…
Worldwide Team Assembles for the Gender & Geography Bibliography Hackathon
The Gender & Geography Bibliography Hackathon will take place November 15-21, 2015, as part of Geography Awareness Week. Work with a worldwide team of faculty, students, staff and citizens anytime and anywhere during that week to add to and edit the online database of feminist geographic sources now containing more than 3,000 citations. The project sponsors hope to…
Op-Ed: Make Civil Rights a Geography Awareness Week Theme
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial By Night - Washington DC (Glyn Lowe via Compfight) We have thought for some time now that it would be educationally productive to have a Geography Awareness Week theme devoted to civil rights. Tragically, events over the summer—especially the massacre at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South…
Support Geography Awareness Week
Geography Awareness Week 2013 is less than a month away -- November 17-23. This annual observance, held during the third week of November, is an ideal time to organize outreach and educational activities to raise awareness of the discipline and its contributions to society, the environment, education, and the workforce. The AAG, National Geographic, the…