EAGER: PULSE Project Management

德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥的Trinity大学获得了支持本科生生命科学教育合作伙伴关系（PULSE）的补助金。脉冲将汇集40愿景和变革领导研究员在一年之久，促进努力确定必要的环境，为本科生生命科学教育的不断和强大的演变，以响应在2011年发表的愿景和变革报告中阐述的行动呼吁。研究员将从我们国家最有动力、最有激情、最有成就的椅子、前椅子和院长中选出--这些人有能力发起和维持变革。这一进程首先是举办一个讲习班，以确定各种办法和协调各种努力。接下来是一段紧张的“实地工作”，在此期间，最初的想法被尝试、评估和完善。它在第二次研讨会中达到高潮，旨在完善思维，工具，文档和方法。我们的目标是了解和建立一个环境，在部门和机构，有正确的选择压力，以促进本科生命科学教育的学习方法的不断演变。来自Trinity大学的PI团队建议支持这个复杂的，为期一年的活动，担任导师的研究员和协调NSF和KnowInnovation（KI）之间的沟通和物流。KI将在整个项目监督、PULSE网站开发以及协助选择愿景和变革领导力研究员方面发挥关键作用。特别是，该网站将成为宣布PULSE项目的场所，与美国生物科学研究所合作收集应用信息，并通过讨论组，博客，文件共享，研究员之间以及研究员与整个生命科学界之间的社交网络，在八个月的实地考察期间促进沟通。KI的项目经理将负责对这项工作进行日常监督，并协调PULSE合作伙伴之间的沟通。KI的经验是这个独特而令人兴奋的计划的一个强有力的补充，旨在调动本科生命科学教育的变化。该奖项符合EARLY概念的探索性研究赠款（EAGER），因为它具有很高的潜力，为全国高校内的生物系改造产生一个实施框架。愿景和变革领导研究员项目的结果将推动机构改革的努力向前发展。 研究员将是来自研究型大学，综合/公立大学，文科学院和社区学院的领导者的多元化群体。 拟议的活动预计将作出重大贡献，以前所未有的转变本科生物学教育界的理解体制障碍的变化和克服这些障碍的战略。 这是可能的，重点放在部门主席催化生物学教育改革可能是其他学科的模式，因为他们在吸引和留住本科生的STEM学科的工作问题。该项目是由生物科学理事会和教育和人力资源理事会共同资助，本科教育司作为他们努力支持本科生物学教育的愿景和变化的一部分。

Trinity University of San Antonio, TX is awarded a grant to support the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Science Education (PULSE). PULSE will bring together 40 Vision and Change Leadership Fellows in a year-long, facilitated effort to identify the environment necessary for constant and robust evolution in undergraduate life science education in response to the call for action articulated in the Vision and Change report published in 2011. Fellows will be selected from among our nation's most driven, passionate, and accomplished chairs, former chairs, and deans - people in a position to initiate and sustain change. The process starts with a workshop to identify approaches and coordinate efforts. It is followed by an intense period of "field work" where initial ideas are tried, assessed and refined. And it culminates in a second workshop aimed at refining thinking, tools, documents, and approaches. The goal is to understand and establish an environment in departments and institutions that has the right selective pressures to foster the constant evolution of learning approaches for undergraduate life science education.The PI team from Trinity University proposes to support this complex, year-long activity by serving as mentors for the Fellows and by coordinating communication and logistics between NSF and KnowInnovation (KI). KI will play a crucial role in overall project oversight, PULSE website development, and assistance in selecting the Vision and Change Leadership Fellows. The website, in particular, will be the location for announcing the PULSE project, collecting application information in collaboration with the American Institute for Biological Sciences, and facilitating communication during the eight month fieldwork period via discussion groups, blogs, file sharing, social networking between the Fellows and between Fellows and the life sciences community at large. The Project Manager at KI will be responsible for the day-to-day oversight of this effort and for coordinating communication among the PULSE partners. The experience of KI is a strong addition to this unique and exciting program designed to mobilize change in undergraduate life sciences education. The award fits the EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) because of its high potential for producing an implementation framework for transforming biology departments within the nation's colleges and universities.The results of the Vision and Change Leadership Fellows project will move institutional reform efforts forward. Fellows will be a diverse group of leaders from research universities, comprehensive/public universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges. The proposed activities are expected to make a significant contribution to an unprecedented transformation of the undergraduate biology education community's understanding of institutional barriers to change and of strategies for overcoming them. It is possible that the focus on department chairs for catalyzing educational reforms in biology might be a model for other disciplines as they work on issues of attracting and retaining undergraduate students in STEM disciplines.This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Directorate of Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to support Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education.