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. [2]
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 [3] 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: