Education, Innovation, and Discovery: The Distinctive Promise of the American Research University

教育、创新和发现：美国研究型大学的独特承诺

• 批准号: 0823387
• 负责人: William Green
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Miami
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0823387&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Education; Innovation; Discovery; Distinctive; Promise

Interdisciplinary (99)This project is a two-day conference on "Education, Innovation, and Discovery: The Distinctive Promise of the American Research University." The conference is scheduled to take place in Washington, DC on November 13 and 14, 2008. It is the fourth major forum sponsored by the Reinvention Center, a consortium of research universities established in 2000 and inspired by the Boyer Commission report, "Reinventing Undergraduate Education" (1998). The conference coincides with the tenth anniversary of the publication of the Boyer report, which challenged research universities to reinvent their undergraduate education so that it emphasizes inquiry, investigation, and discovery and takes full advantage of their unique research cultures, values, and resources. This conference is an opportunity for leaders in research universities to take stock collectively of the reforms and advances in undergraduate education that have emerged in the past decade, highlight approaches and practices that have produced consequential results, and build on these experiences to further the process of reinvention. The overarching goal is to continue the process of determining how the research university environment of discovery and creativity shapes and adds distinctive value to undergraduate education and to use the knowledge gained to improve curricular and pedagogical practices. Specific objectives are: - To investigate diverse approaches to General Education in order to guide individual campuses as they craft their foundational curriculum - To bring the diversity and internationality of the research university community to the forefront so that they are recognized and appreciated as genuine educational assets - To advance knowledge and understanding of assessment and accountability and engage faculty so that they may make a meaningful contribution to current discussions and also incorporate assessment into their teaching and student learning - To demonstrate ways in which technology can be used to enrich teaching and increase students' engagement, retention and intellectual and cognitive growth - To promote strategies for educating undergraduates to be productive citizens in an increasingly global and scientific environment - To demonstrate ways in which a research-inflected education will strengthen students' development of fundamental skills in quantitative reasoning, scientific literacy, and writing and also foster the development of higher order cognitive skills These objectives are key in constructing an undergraduate education that connects the research university's core missions to generate and transmit knowledge with the national need for a robust workforce that can compete in a global economy.

跨学科（99）这个项目是一个为期两天的会议“教育，创新和发现：美国研究型大学的独特承诺。“会议定于2008年11月13日和14日在华盛顿举行。这是由再造中心主办的第四个主要论坛，再造中心是一个由研究型大学组成的联盟，成立于2000年，灵感来自博耶委员会的报告，“重塑本科教育”（1998年）。会议恰逢博耶报告发表十周年，该报告要求研究型大学重塑本科教育，以强调探究、调查和发现，并充分利用其独特的研究文化、价值观和资源。这次会议是一个机会，研究型大学的领导人采取集体的改革和进步，在本科教育已经出现在过去十年中，突出的方法和实践，产生了重大的结果，并建立在这些经验，以进一步改造的过程。总体目标是继续确定研究型大学的发现和创造力环境如何塑造和增加本科教育的独特价值，并利用所获得的知识来改善课程和教学实践。具体目标是：- 研究通识教育的不同方法，以指导各个校园制定基础课程-将研究型大学社区的多样性和国际性带到最前沿，使其被认可和欣赏为真正的教育资产-促进知识和评估和问责制的理解，并参与教师，使他们可以作出有意义的贡献，目前讨论，并将评估纳入他们的教学和学生的学习-展示如何利用技术来丰富教学和提高学生的参与度，保留和智力和认知增长-促进教育本科生在日益全球化和科学的环境中成为富有成效的公民的战略-展示研究的方法-曲折教育将加强学生在定量推理，科学素养，这些目标是构建本科教育的关键，将研究型大学的核心使命，即产生和传播知识，国家需要一个强大的劳动力，可以在全球经济中竞争。