Project Kaleidoscope Leadership Transition

万花筒计划领导层过渡

• 批准号: 1024289
• 负责人: Susan Elrod
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Association of American Colleges and Universities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-04-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1024289&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Project; Kaleidoscope; Leadership; Transition

The project supports the sustained efforts of a working group that is guiding the transition of Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) from a largely volunteer, independent organization into one that has a strong connection with the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), a national organization representing a wide range of universities and colleges. Since its founding in 1989, PKAL has been one of the leading advocates in the United States for building and sustaining strong, inquiry-focused undergraduate programs in the STEM fields. This new affiliation is working to foster and build a stronger national constituency to support activities that combine the best contemporary STEM practices for all students with transformative teaching in order to identify an empowering constellation of approaches that define academic excellence in twenty-first century STEM research, teaching, and learning. The working group, which includes members from a variety of institutional types, ensures diversity of people, place and experience. It is producing a series of white papers, outlining future directions and priorities for PKAL in its new institutional context and under its new leadership. A summative evaluation of PKAL's success at the close of the transition period is being coordinated through AAC&U's nationally-recognized Office of Quality, Curriculum, and Assessment and is measuring the effectiveness of the grant and, indeed, of PKAL's movement into its new role.

该项目支持一个工作组的持续努力，该工作组正在指导万花筒项目(PKAL)从一个主要由志愿者组成的独立组织转变为一个与美国学院和大学协会(AAC&Amp；U)有密切联系的组织，后者是一个代表广泛大学和学院的全国性组织。自1989年成立以来，PKAL一直是美国STEM领域建立和维持强大的、以探究为重点的本科课程的主要倡导者之一。这个新的联盟正在努力培养和建立一个更强大的国家支持者，以支持将所有学生的当代STEM最佳实践与变革性教学相结合的活动，以便确定一系列赋权的方法，这些方法定义了21世纪STEM研究、教学和学习方面的学术卓越。该工作组包括来自不同机构类型的成员，确保人员、地点和经验的多样性。它正在编写一系列白皮书，概述PKAL在其新的机构背景下和在其新的领导下的未来方向和优先事项。对PKAL在过渡期结束时的成功进行的总结性评估正在通过AAC；Amp；U的全国认可的质量、课程和评估办公室进行协调，并正在衡量赠款的有效性，实际上，正在衡量PKAL履行其新职责的有效性。