Building Science Education for the 90s
GZB at Pack Forest
BACKGROUND
This July will mark the 4th SBSE summer retreat. These meetings have served to provide a forum for the discussion of teaching methods and corresponding individual research interests. The 1986-1987 retreats were supported by U.S. D.O.E. The 1989 retreat is funded by the SBSE treasury in an effort to support a more broadly focused retreat. Food and lodging for the retreat, and transportation between the retreat site and the University of Washington, are covered by SBSE. Your transportation between
Seattle and home can be arranged by ACSA, if you are attending the ACSA Summer Energy Institute. Retreat activities of the past several years have been stimulating and rewarding. The previous discussion sessions have offered opportunities to renew friendships and make new acquaintances. The unique setting offers a chance to reflect on our roles as teachers.
THEME
This year we will reflect on the past and future of SBSE, and define our goals and agenda for the coming years. Questions we will examine include: Who are the members of SBSE, and what are their needs? What services does SBSE currently provide, both within and outside the academic building science community? How can we expand or increase the effectiveness of those services? What is needed to improve the accessibility and use of SBSE's Curriculum Materials and Slide Collection? How can we encourage greater member participation? What are potential sources of money to help SBSE develop our resources?
PROGRAM
The retreat will use several methods to address these questions, including individual and group presentations, small group discussions, and sufficient free time for roaming
the hills and streams, establishing personal and professional bonds, and informal brainstorming. Several past Chairs of SBSE will give presentations discussing their
expectations and experiences with the organization. Retreat participants will also have an opportunity to give introductions of themselves and their visions of SBSE. As in previous meetings, much of the productive work will take place in small focus groups on particular. topics important to the future of SBSE. All members of the meeting will then gather to hear presentations of the focus groups, and to produce a clear agenda of specific activities for SBSE in the 1990s.
Event Coordination
Joel Loveland, Content
Gail Schiller, Content
Charlie Brown, Logistics
Venue / Lodging
LOGISTICS
The meeting will take place at the University of Washington Forestry Camp in Pack Forest (15 miles from the Paradise entry to Mt. Rainier National Park). SBSE will cover the costs of food and lodging during the meeting, although participants will be responsible for their own transportation.
As in previous years, many participants mar, depend on the ACSA Summer Institute to support their travel to Seattle. If you haven't made arrangements with ACSA, you should contact Karen Eldridge to see if they still have Institute scholarships available. (We have informed the ACSA of the timing and activities of our meeting so they might be aware of coincident activities and participants.) The deadline for ACSA applications is June 20.
You can get to Pack Forest on your own, or transportation to and from the University of Washington, Gould Hall, will be provided. Vans will leave Gould Hall at 2:30 p.m. sharp on Wednesday, July 12; they will leave Pack Forest around noon on Saturday, July 15, leaving plenty of time to be back in Seattle for the Summer Institute Keynote Dinner.
Call for Submissions
APPLICATION
As with last year, the meeting is based on the active involvement of all participants. We will have limited room for approximately 25-30 enthusiastic people, and would like to invite you to participate by sending us a letter describing your interests relative to the topics of the meeting (i.e., your_ vision for the future of SBSE what role you'd like to play, etc.). Please include an address, phone number, and FAX number (if you have one). Selection will be made by the SBSE Board based on careful consideration of these letters, so get those requests in early.
If you wish to participate in this year's meeting, please send a letter of interest to both Joel Loveland and Gail Schiller. Your letter should be received by June 23. If this is not possible, please contact Joel or Gail by phone with your intention. We are sorry about the last minute timing but final arrangements for the retreat location were made only recently. Participants will be notified as soon as possible, and a complete description of the meeting will be mailed shortly.
Participants
Ed Allen,
Cris Benton,
Soontorn Boonyatikarn,
Dale Brentrup,
Charlie Brown,
Jeff Cook,
Marty Davis,
Rick Diamond,
Bruce Haglund,
J.J. Kim,
Lance LaVine,
Joel Loveland,
Murray Milne,
Fuller Moore,
Gail Schiller,
Paul Weir,
Hofu Wu.