EAGER: Leadership Workshops and Fieldwork

EAGER：领导力研讨会和实地考察

• 批准号: 1249142
• 负责人: David Ribble
• 金额: $ 29.79万
• 依托单位: Trinity University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-01 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1249142&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Leadership; Workshops; Fieldwork

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 the Fellows and KnowInnovation (KI). KI will play a crucial role in gathering data relevant to transforming undergraduate life sciences education and the impediments to implementation of reform. KI will plan and facilitate a workshop that has a goal of identifying key approaches for overcoming barriers to implementing change in undergraduate life science education. The ideas developed in the workshop will be shared, vetted, and implemented on a pilot basis. Fellows will share preliminary results with each other and the community via in-person and virtual meetings to maximize interactions. The Fieldwork stage will conclude with a second workshop to refine implementation recommendations to the PULSE partners and broader community. The experience of KI in encouraging participants to generate bold, new approaches 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 funded jointly 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.

德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥的三一大学获得了一笔赠款，以支持本科生生命科学教育伙伴关系(PULSE)。PULSE将汇集40名愿景与变革领导力研究员，在一年的时间里，为响应2011年发表的愿景与变革报告中提出的行动呼吁，确定本科生命科学教育持续和稳健发展所需的环境。研究员将从我们国家最有干劲、最有激情、最有成就的主席、前主席和院长中挑选出来--这些人有能力发起和维持变革。这一进程始于一次讲习班，以确定办法和协调努力。紧随其后的是一段紧张的“实地工作”时期，对最初的想法进行试验、评估和完善。它在旨在提炼思想、工具、文档和方法的第二次研讨会中达到高潮。目标是理解并在院系和机构中建立一个具有适当选择压力的环境，以促进本科生生命科学教育学习方法的不断演变。来自三一大学的PI团队建议通过担任研究员的导师以及协调研究员和知识创新(KI)之间的沟通和后勤来支持这一复杂的、长达一年的活动。KI将在收集与本科生生命科学教育转型和实施改革的障碍相关的数据方面发挥关键作用。KI将计划和促进一个研讨会，其目标是确定克服实施本科生命科学教育变革的障碍的关键方法。在研讨会上提出的想法将在试点的基础上进行分享、审查和实施。研究员将通过面对面和虚拟会议与彼此和社区分享初步成果，以实现最大限度的互动。实地工作阶段将以第二次讲习班结束，以完善对PULSE合作伙伴和更广泛社区的执行建议。KI在鼓励参与者产生大胆的新方法方面的经验是对这个旨在动员本科生生命科学教育变革的独特和令人兴奋的计划的有力补充。该奖项适合探索性研究早期概念助学金(AGERGE)，因为它具有很高的潜力，可以为全国高校内的生物系转型提供一个实施框架。愿景与变革领导力研究员项目的结果将推动机构改革努力。研究员将由来自研究型大学、综合性/公立大学、文科学院和社区学院的不同领导人组成。预计拟议的活动将对本科生生物教育界对变革的体制障碍和克服这些障碍的战略的认识产生前所未有的转变作出重大贡献。在其他学科致力于吸引和留住STEM学科的本科生的问题上，对促进生物学教育改革的系主任的关注可能会成为他们的榜样。该项目由生物科学局和本科教育司教育和人力资源局联合资助，作为他们支持本科生物学教育愿景与变革的努力的一部分。