Making Science Education Count: Tenure Reform and Undergraduate Biology Research

让科学教育发挥作用：任期改革和本科生生物学研究

• 批准号: 9620092
• 负责人: Paul Sypherd
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-02-01 至 2002-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9620092&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Making; Science; Education; Count; Tenure

The University of Arizona has been selected as one of ten recipients of the National Science Foundation's Recognition Awards for the Integration of Research and Education. The university has achieved noteworthy success in two aspects of the integration of research and education: revision of tenure and promotion guidelines to consider the quality of undergraduate teaching, and creation of an innovative undergraduate biology program. The university has established a Science and Engineering Promotion and Tenure Committee which ensures that education issues are considered on a par with research performance in hiring, promotion, and tenure decisions. In addition, the university is committed to infusing research into the undergraduate experience in both lower and upper divisions, and noteworthy progress is being made in the biology program. A Biology Learning Center is helping to create innovative courses that use Internet-based resources. Undergraduate biology majors are engaged in research with faculty from 35 academic departments. Research results are presented by students at an annual conference on campus. Selected alumnae of these research experiences are placed in biomedical research labs overseas. The University of Arizona's efforts to integrate research and education were designed with specific outcomes in mind: implement tenure and promotion policy reforms at all levels and across disciplinary boundaries within the university; increase significantly the numbers of students participating in biological research on campus and overseas; expand faculty participation in undergraduate research projects; and increase student awareness of diverse career opportunities available to biology majors. The university has documented noteworthy success in achieving these goals. The university is being awarded $500,000 with the goal of expanding, documenting, and disseminating its exemplary practices over the coming three years. Plans for use of the award funds include: conducting workshops on tenure reform for faculty and administrators from other institutions; increasing support for student-faculty research projects; enhancing Web-based resources; and production and dissemination of video and print materials that document the undergraduate biology program.

亚利桑那大学被选为国家科学基金会研究与教育一体化表彰奖的十名获奖者之一。 该大学在研究和教育的整合方面取得了显着的成功：修订终身教职和晋升指南，以考虑本科教学质量，并创建一个创新的本科生物学课程。 该大学成立了一个科学和工程促进和终身教职委员会，确保在招聘，晋升和终身教职决定中将教育问题与研究表现相提并论。 此外，该大学致力于将研究注入到低年级和高年级的本科生经验中，生物学课程正在取得值得注意的进展。 生物学习中心正在帮助创建使用基于互联网的资源的创新课程。 本科生物学专业的学生与来自35个学术部门的教师一起从事研究。 研究成果由学生在校园年会上发表。 这些研究经验的选择校友被安置在海外的生物医学研究实验室。 亚利桑那大学的努力，以整合研究和教育的目的是考虑到具体的成果：实施终身制和晋升政策改革，在各级和跨学科的界限内的大学;显着增加学生参与生物学研究在校园和海外的人数;扩大教师参与本科生研究项目;并提高学生对生物学专业多样化就业机会的认识。 该大学在实现这些目标方面取得了显著的成功。 该大学将获得50万美元的资助，目标是在未来三年内扩大、记录和传播其示范性做法。 计划使用的奖励资金包括：进行研讨会上的终身改革教师和其他机构的管理人员;增加对学生教师的研究项目的支持;加强基于网络的资源;和生产和传播的视频和印刷材料，记录本科生物学课程。