Meeting of PULSE Leadership Fellows - Spreading the PULSE Subgroup

已向加州路德大学颁发了一项奖励，以组织和举办一个讲习班，支持本科生生命科学教育伙伴关系。该研讨会定于2013年3月1日至3日在密苏里州圣路易斯举行。去年9月，PULSE合作伙伴任命了40名愿景和变革领导研究员，以刺激本科生命科学教育界的变革。所有研究员在2012年10月举行了会议，并已组织成四个工作组，以解决不同的挑战，改革如何在所有类型的本科院校生物学教学。愿景与变革领导力研究员的重点是生命科学系如何鼓励和奖励教职员工？努力提高本科生命科学教育。 这些改进应该增加学生的学习，应该增加学生在科学领域的保留率，并应该让所有学生做好准备，成为更好奇和更有科学素养的公民。 目前的奖项是资助一个讲习班的12名领导研究员谁是“传播脉搏”工作组的一部分。该小组的总体目标是确定如何协助那些请求帮助的部门实施《远景和变革报告》中提出的建议。该工作组将与整个脉冲社区合作，以确定，培训和部署将在明年访问不同部门的大使团队。大使会协助部门评估其工作进度，然后提供指引、资源、规划建议，以及其他工作小组正在制订的评估准则。因此，将邀请其他三个工作组的代表参加讲习班，以便在2013年6月举行第二次全体研究员会议之前，在整个实地工作阶段更好地协调所有四个工作组的活动。本次研讨会的指导方针将主要通过www.pulsecommunity.org网站与生命科学界分享。

An award has been made to California Lutheran University to organize and conduct a workshop in support of the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Science Education (PULSE). This workshop is scheduled for March 1-3, 2013 in St. Louis, MO. Last September, the PULSE partners appointed 40 Vision and Change Leadership Fellows to stimulate transformative changes in the undergraduate life science education community. All Fellows met in October, 2012 and have since organized into four working groups to address different challenges to reforming how biology is taught at all types of undergraduate institutions. The Vision and Change Leadership Fellows are focusing on how life science departments can encourage and reward faculty member?s efforts to improve undergraduate life sciences education. Such improvements should increase student learning, should increase retention rates for students in the sciences, and should prepare all students to be more curious and scientifically literate citizens. The current award is to fund a workshop for twelve of the Leadership Fellows who are part of the "Spreading the Pulse" working group. This group has the overall goal of determining how to assist those departments that request help in implementing recommendations made in the Vision and Change report. The working group will engage the entire pulse community to identify, train, and deploy teams of Ambassadors who will visit different departments over the next year. The Ambassadors will help departments evaluate their progress so far, then provide guidelines, resources, planning recommendations, and assessment rubrics being developed by the other working groups. Therefore, representatives from the other three working groups will be invited to the workshop so that the activities of all four working groups can be better coordinated throughout this fieldwork phase in advance of a second meeting of all the Fellows in June, 2013. The guidelines from this workshop will be shared with the life sciences community, primarily via the www.pulsecommunity.org website.