New approaches in vocational, technical and continuing geoscience education

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Geoscience programs at the two-year vocational, technical and continuing education level experience severe enrollment fluctuations that follow the global cycle of supply and demand for mineral resources. The absence of stable enrollments has manifested itself into a major problem. Many of these geoscience programs have not survived periods of low enrollments and have either been merged with other programs or been discontinued altogether. This research into new approaches in vocational, technical and continuing geoscience education was initiated to identify what variations in need for geoscience education exist and how the problem of low enrollments may be addressed. During the initial stages of investiga-tion, answers began to surface in University of Alaska Mining Extension enrollment files and in the literature, suggesting the need to diversify geoscience education programs. Govern-ment, industry, educators and students indicate that there is a need for geoscience education that woul

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