EMSC 302
Orientation to Energy and Sustainability Policy

EMSAGE

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What is EMSAGE?

EMSAGE is the acronym for The Earth and Mineral Sciences Academy for Global Experience. It is a way to recognize students that have gone above and beyond and exemplify the College's efforts to foster students’ global competence and to promote a spirit of integrity, service, and leadership.

It's a distinction that you can earn by completing the ESP degree requirements and taking advantage of some of the other opportunities offered to you through the College. As stated on the College's website, EMSAGE laureates are formally recognized, awarded a crystal Laureate memento and certificate, and enshrined on the EMSAGE Laureate roster in the Ryan Family Student Center. Not to mention, EMSAGE status looks great on a resume!

Check out the College's EMSAGE page describing the EMSAGE program and how it works.

MOST of you will qualify for protégé or practitioner status, the precursors to laureate status. You may be asked to complete an Engagement Plan. Here are examples of plans previously submitted plans. Apply today!

Being an EMSAGE Laureate is a unique distinction offered by the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences only. This should not be an accomplishment that you “check off,” but a pathway to develop into someone that will graduate with the necessary competencies to meaningfully contribute to the world and be successful in a rewarding career.

An Engagement Plan is a draft roadmap, integrating curricular, engagement, and service activities that can help prepare you for your imagined future, but also be used to achieve EMSAGE Laureate status. The following is a list of some of the types of achievements you can use to complete the Laureate requirements. However, there are many other ways that you can fulfill each; this list is not exhaustive in any way, think of this as things you could do to fulfill the requirements, not things you must do. Some of the most common qualifiers for ESP students have been changed to green font and noted with an asterisks *. NOTE: if you join a club, you'll be checking off one of the items in the "Service" section!

Achieving Laureate status will require accomplishments in a minimum of nine activities that demonstrate balance across each of these categories:

Scholarship

  • * Enrolled in an Integrated Undergraduate/Graduate degree program (IUG) in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences 
  • * Enrolled in one or more minors or concurrent majors
  • * Demonstrated proficiency in a foreign language(s)
  • * Dean’s list for 4 or more semesters
  • Recipient of a prominent scholarship award (Examples: Bunton-Waller, Udall, Goldwater, NSF, Truman, Rhodes, Marshall, Discovery Grant, etc.)
  • Publication in peer-reviewed literature
  • Participation in the William Grundy Haven Paper Competition
  • Participation in a poster competition
  • Undergraduate research

Experiential Learning and Global Literacy

  • * Participation in International Internship and/or Study Abroad programs
  • * Participation in Cooperative Education and/or Internship programs
  • Participation in a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program or equivalent
  • Participation in CAUSE projects or an academic project with an international travel component
  • Participation in extended field studies
  • * Presentation at a professional forum
  • * Work experience relevant to your EMS major
  • * Unique life experiences (Examples: military service, Peace Corps, extensive travel, living abroad, etc.)

Service

  • Participation as a teaching assistant
  • Participation as a mentor in TOTEMS
  • * Active participation in professional societies
  • Educational outreach (Examples: mentor in SEEMS, ASM Camp, WISE Camp, Campus Weather Service, Weather Camp, school visitations, EMEX, EMS Museum Docent, etc.)
  • * Participation and service to University organizations or commissions (Examples: EMS Student Council, Interest House, IFC/Panhellenic Council, UPUA, Faculty Senate, FISE, etc.)
  • * Participation in local, state, or federal government (Examples: Congressional Fellow, voter registration, etc.)
  • * Civic and volunteer service (Examples: Habitat for Humanity, Food Bank, Big Brother/Sister, Red Cross Blood Drive, Meals on Wheels, etc.)
  • Demonstrated commitment to diversity (Examples: World in Conversation discussion facilitator, LGBTQA; Commission on Racial/Ethnic Diversity.)
  • Peer mentoring
  • Tutoring
  • Resident Assistant
  • * Demonstrated leadership in the organizations of which you are a member (Examples: PTA, church organizations, etc)