Higher Education Success Stories: 2021

[GeriMiller]

Colleagues,

You’ve likely seen many examples of innovative GIS work shared throughout last year. We wanted to take the liberty and share a compiled collection of examples, case studies and success stories by fellow educators, covering various topics/domains.

Please feel free to share these examples of GIS use with your colleagues across your institution, should you find them useful and inspirational.

Supercharging Curriculum/Enabling Geospatial Campus

• Clemson University: Creating the Clemson Center for Geospatial Technologies and Inspiring Interdisciplinary GIS Services
• University of Vermont: Students Gain Competitive Skills, Combining GIS and R Programming Language
• Virginia Commonwealth University: Students Gain Valuable Workplace Skills with Drone Education and GIS Courses
• University of Vermont: Counting Birds in the Falkland Islands', and other Remote Sensing Fundamentals
• USC: For Equity and Environmental Justice, USC’s Manuel Pastor Knows Maps’ Power
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology: Building a Geospatial Legacy
• Multiple Institutions: German Universities Explore Indoor Mapping System Capabilities for Wayfinding Improvement

GIS Across Various Disciplines

• Georgetown University: GIS Literacy at the Core of Georgetown’s Graduate Program (Geodesign/Urban Planning)
• Georgia Tech: Tokyo: Reimagining the World’s Largest City with Advanced Analytics
• Penn State University: The New Geodesign Generation (Geodesign/Urban Planning)
• William and Mary: Giving Students a Dynamic, Shareable Work Space with ArcGIS Notebooks (Data Science/ArcGIS Notebooks)
• Carroll University: Using GIS to Innovate Business Education (Business Education)
• Charles Drew University: Data Visualization Provides Unique Capabilities to Explain and Understand Complex Healthcare Issues (Public Health)
• UC San Diego: It’s in the Wastewater: How UC San Diego Senses and Maps COVID-19 (Public Health)
• University of Athens: University of Athens Applies Modern GIS Technology to Manage Ancient Data (Archaeology)

Innovative Student Work/Sharpening Needed Skills

• USC: Student Wins LA Geospatial Student Poster Competition on Spatiotemporal Analysis of Snow Crab
• USC: Student Wins Discovery Scholar Award Using R-ArcGIS Bridge to Study Land Fallowing in Europe
• Texas Christian University: Inspiring the Next Generation of Supply Chain Innovators
• Penn State University: Geodesign Students See Opportunities for Community Growth
• Western Illinois University: How Technology and GIS Students Aided Response to the Great Flood of 2019
• Bulgaria University of Mining and Geology: University Students in Bulgaria Adopt GIS Skills for Careers in Sustainable Mining
• Multiple Institutions: Higher Education Student Examples of Innovative Use of ArcGIS Technology
• Multiple Institutions/Alumni: Recent Graduates Discuss the Skills and Technologies You Should Focus on in This Q&A

Thanks to all of those who contributed to writing these stories and sharing their work in advancing GIS education.

In addition, if you haven’t already done so, check out our updated Educators industry website containing teaching and learning resources, case studies, and more – for Educators, Researchers, Administrators, and Geospatial Support roles.

Enjoy and hopefully everyone’s year is off to a great start!!

[LenKne2]

Outstanding work everyone! Thanks for sharing.