Assignment
1- Professional Development Plan for Plant Pathology Meeting (500-word limit)
Briefly describe your plan to make the most of your time at the meeting.
• How will you choose and capitalize on networking opportunities?
• How will you make contacts and appointments before the meeting?
• How will you choose the above contacts?
• What 10 keywords would you use to search the meeting program?
2- Tapping into Graduate Student Creativity:
This section is split into two sub-sections, both of which are designed to allow graduate students to showcase their creativity in soft skills such as fundraising and public outreach.
Part 1: Foundation Fundraising/ Generation of New Donors (250-word limit)
• Propose an initiative to either raise additional funds for Foundation, to attract new donors from within membership, or to attract new donors from outside membership. Describe how someone could contribute to the above effort, insure its success, or enlist others to help. If Foundation implements your idea, you'll be offered a role in leading it, but your selection is not contingent on accepting the offer.
• Creativity/ originality of idea.
• Potential for success and evidence in support.
Part 2: Community Engagement (250-word limit)
• Propose an idea for how to engage and communicate with your local community about topics in plant pathology. What is a way that you can generate interest about a specific topic with the general public?
• Creativity/ originality of idea.
• Potential for success and evidence in support.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.