Collaborative Proposal: Expanding Evolutionary Studies in American Higher Education

跨学科/多学科（99）。“扩展美国高等教育中的进化研究”是宾汉姆顿纽约州立大学和新帕尔茨纽约州立大学学院之间的一个合作项目。它涉及到在整个本科课程中纳入进化观点的模型的进一步实施、传播和评估。该模型正在宾厄姆顿的纽约州立大学开发，并将在项目过程中扩展到纽约州立大学新帕尔茨分校和至少9个其他机构。课程内容包括一个名为“人人的进化”的跨学科入门课程，一个可以与任何专业一起完成的进化论研究跨学科证书授予项目，一个跨学科研讨会项目，邀请外部演讲者为广泛的主题提供进化视角，以及一个让本科生参与社区研究项目的项目。传播模式包括为参与的机构提供小额资助计划，项目团队成员的校园访问，以及为联盟成员建立社区的努力，包括开发一份致力于进化论研究本科教育的在线期刊。项目评估将包括对个别校园倡议如何影响学生学习和学生态度的广泛评估，以及对传播模式的评估。该项目的智力价值在于其创新的方法，通过在整个本科课程中嵌入进化论的观点，并通过开发一个跨学科的项目，让所有学科的学生都能获得进化论研究的证书，来解决科学教育中一个困难而重要的问题（进化论教学）。该提案的更广泛影响包括将进化研究跨学科项目的成功模式传播到其他各种机构，包括社区大学。这些项目的范围非常广泛，远远超出了生命科学，包括物理科学、社会科学、人文科学和艺术，并影响着各种各样的学生。该项目还通过鼓励来自广泛学科的教师参与，帮助打破学科壁垒。

Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary (99). "Expanding Evolutionary Studies in American Higher Education" is a collaborative project between SUNY at Binghamton and SUNY College at New Paltz. It involves further implementation, dissemination, and evaluation of a model for incorporating an evolutionary perspective throughout the undergraduate curriculum. The model is being developed at SUNY at Binghamton, and will be expanded to SUNY New Paltz and at least 9 other institutions during the course of the project. Elements of the curriculum include an introductory interdisciplinary course entitled "Evolution for Everyone," an interdisciplinary certificate-granting program in evolutionary studies that can be completed in conjunction with any major, an interdisciplinary seminar program that brings in outside speakers who provide an evolutionary perspective to a wide array of topics, and a program for involving undergraduates in community-based research projects. The model for dissemination includes a small-grants program for participating institutions, campus visits by members of the project team, and efforts at community building for the consortium members, including the development of an on-line journal devoted to undergraduate education in evolutionary studies. Project evaluation will include extensive evaluation of how individual campus initiatives influence student learning and student attitudes, as well as an evaluation of the dissemination model. The intellectual merit of the project lies in its innovative approach to a difficult and important issue in science education (the teaching of evolution) by embedding an evolutionary perspective throughout the undergraduate curriculum, and by developing an interdisciplinary program that allows students from all disciplines to gain a certificate in evolutionary studies. The broader impacts of the proposal include the dissemination of a successful model for an interdisciplinary program in evolutionary studies to a variety of other institutions, including community colleges. These programs are having a broad scope reaching well beyond the life sciences to include the physical sciences, social sciences, humanities and the arts, and are impacting a diverse array of students. The project is also helping to break down disciplinary walls by encouraging participation from faculty from a broad spectrum of academic disciplines.