{"id":4998,"date":"2017-10-27T21:12:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T21:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/?p=4998"},"modified":"2017-10-27T21:12:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T21:12:04","slug":"news-from-the-na-education-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/general\/news-from-the-na-education-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"News from the NA Education Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-396ddf1f42196ca838231e61a4602801 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h4><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4610 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/S.Trombulak-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/S.Trombulak-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/S.Trombulak-1-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/S.Trombulak-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/S.Trombulak-1-1030x1030.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/S.Trombulak-1-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/S.Trombulak-1-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/S.Trombulak-1-1500x1500.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/S.Trombulak-1-705x705.jpg 705w, https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/S.Trombulak-1-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/S.Trombulak-1-450x450.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/>News from the NA Education Committee <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The Education Committee is transitioning to new administration with the election of Steve Trombulak as Vice-President for Education and Chapters.\u00a0 Steve is returning to his involvement with SCB governance and education, having been the chair of the Education Committee for SCB-Global (1999-2004) as well as being a past-president of the North American section (2004-2006).<\/p>\n<p>During the coming year, the SCBNA Education Committee will focus on the following activities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increasing opportunities for educators to participate in NACCB 2018<\/li>\n<li>Increasing educational opportunities for everyone at NACCB<\/li>\n<li>Strengthening the professional \u201cpipeline\u201d for students who want to work as conservation biologists<\/li>\n<li>Facilitating student travel, presentation awards, &amp; other student activities at the congress<\/li>\n<li>Harnessing the combined energies of the North American chapters to work collaboratively on conservation challenges.<\/li>\n<li>Re-examining the published \u201cPrinciples of Conservation Biology,\u201d which has served as a curricular guide for those seeking to develop educational resources in our field<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>If you are interested<\/strong> in rolling up your sleeves and joining us in the work on any of these topics, please write to Steve Trombulak (<a href=\"mailto:trombulak@middlebury.edu\">trombulak@middlebury.edu<\/a>).\u00a0 New members of the committee are always welcome!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[52,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}