![]() ![]() This publicly available resource hub ensures that all members can benefit from the program at any stage of their career or level of interest. The Elevate program also provides a resource hub with many offerings that allow members to consult, learn, and browse anytime. The Resource Tier provides multimedia materials for any member to consult and use. The Program Tier offers virtual and in-person training to members working in any area. The Cohort Tier focuses intense training and support on 10-15 applicants working on a specific theme each year. ![]() The tiers are designed to reach as many geographers as possible. In creating Elevate, AAG has developed a three-tiered program, offering opportunities to train and connect the work of all members to public and policy arenas. By connecting academic careers to the media and policy worlds, we can amplify the impact of the work and value to the world. By providing geographers with the skills and contacts to engage as public scholars in the world’s most pressing issues, we can increase public understanding of why geography matters attract students to the discipline educate decision makers, and engage with funders in common cause with solving the challenges our world faces. Learn moreĮlevate the Discipline (Elevate) is a new program that provides training opportunities and resources to help geographers connect their work to public and policy arenas. Through May 5, AAG is accepting applications for the first training cohort in its new program, Elevate the Discipline. They have insight into why and how issues develop, and what to do to address them. Geographers also, by training, have expertise in knowing that there are other things to consider, different opinions to capture, and other knowledge bases to consult to understand root causes, identify the entire system, and develop and scrutinize potential solutions and their implication. Within geography, you find professionals with expertise in the physical, social, and technological world. Geographers are inherently interdisciplinary-they are taught to be so. ![]() Elevating geography in the public mind will help the world understand why geography matters and is essential.īy training and showcasing geographers in action-in the media, as voices for public policies, and in advocating for change-we can demonstrate the relevance and essential nature of the discipline and advance the careers of geographers. The plethora of sub-disciplines in geography, unconnected in the public consciousness, can hide their connections to real-world problems and issues of the moment. However, clarifying the specific value of something as interdisciplinary as geography is inherently challenging. Geography is essential to understanding the world and solving its most pressing problems. ![]()
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