Collaborative Proposal: Expanding Evolutionary Studies in American Higher Education

跨学科/多学科（99）。“在美国高等教育中扩展进化研究”是纽约州立大学宾厄姆顿分校和纽约州立大学新帕尔茨学院之间的一个合作项目。它涉及到进一步实施，传播和评估的模式，在整个本科课程纳入进化的观点。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和至少9个其他机构。课程的元素包括一个介绍性的跨学科课程，题为“每个人的进化”，一个跨学科的证书授予计划在进化研究，可以与任何主要完成，一个跨学科的研讨会计划，带来了外部扬声器谁提供了一个进化的观点，以广泛的主题，并涉及本科生在社区为基础的研究项目的程序。传播模式包括参与机构的小额赠款计划，项目团队成员的校园访问，以及为联盟成员进行社区建设的努力，包括开发一个致力于进化研究本科教育的在线期刊。项目评估将包括对个别校园举措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方法，通过在整个本科课程中嵌入进化的观点，并通过开发跨学科课程，使来自所有学科的学生获得进化研究证书，来解决科学教育中的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向包括社区学院在内的各种其他机构传播进化研究跨学科项目的成功模式。这些计划具有广泛的范围，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，并正在影响各种各样的学生。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.