Midwest Vision and Change Leadership Fellows Midwest Regional Planning Meeting

华盛顿大学已获奖，将于2013年4月12日至14日组织和举办一次研讨会，以支持本科生生命科学教育伙伴关系(PULSE)。去年9月，PULSE合作伙伴(HHMI、NIH和NSF)任命了40名愿景与变革领导力研究员，以推动本科生生命科学教育界的变革。所有研究员于2012年10月举行会议，并自那以来组成了四个工作组，以应对在所有类型的本科院校改革生物学教学方式的不同挑战。愿景与变革领导力研究员专注于生命科学系如何鼓励和奖励教职员工改善本科生生命科学教育的努力。这样的改进应该会增加学生的学习，应该提高理科学生的保留率，应该让所有学生做好准备，成为更有好奇心和更有科学素养的公民。目前的奖励是资助在密苏里州圣路易斯为来自中西部和大平原地区各种机构的9名领导力研究员举办的研讨会。其中一名与会者是领导委员会的成员，该委员会负责协调所有40名研究员的工作，其他与会者是PULSE四个工作组的成员。该讲习班的主要目标是计划在学院和大学生物学教育工作者协会(ACUBE)秋季会议的同时，召开一次关于通过《展望与变革建议》的地区会议。希望这次会议将促成一个区域网络的形成，该网络将开始协调这一广大地理区域的教育改革努力。这次地区性会议将通过接触来自北达科他州和南达科他州、堪萨斯州、伊利诺伊州、密歇根州和肯塔基州等相邻州的机构来扩大PULSE的影响，这些州目前没有PULSE领导力研究员代表。虽然这个区域网络将是测试四个PULSE工作组正在开发的资源的几个“实验室”之一，但讲习班组织者认识到，该国每个区域在推进远景和变革努力方面面临着一些不同的挑战。中西部面临的一个挑战是让更多的社区学院教职员工参与未来的愿景与变革活动。研讨会和大型会议的结果将主要通过www.Pulsecomomity.org网站与生命科学界分享。

An award has been made to Washington University to organize and conduct a workshop from April 12-14, 2013 in support of the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Science Education (PULSE). Last September, the PULSE partners (HHMI, NIH, and NSF) 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 members' 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 in St. Louis, MO for nine of the Leadership Fellows from a variety of institution types located within the Midwest and Great Plains region. One of the participants is a member of the Leadership Council that is coordinating the efforts of all 40 Fellow and the other participants are members of the four PULSE working groups. The major goal of this workshop is to plan a regional conference on adopting the Vision and Change recommendations that will coincide with a fall meeting of the Association of College and University Biology Educators (ACUBE). It is hoped that the conference will catalyze formation of a regional network that will begin coordinating educational reform efforts in this large geographic area. This regional conference will expand the impact of PULSE by reaching out to institutions from adjacent states such as North and South Dakota, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, and Kentucky, that are currently not represented by the PULSE Leadership Fellows. While this regional network will be one of several "laboratories" for testing the resources being developed by the four PULSE working groups, the workshop organizers recognize that each region of the country faces somewhat different challenges in moving Vision and Change efforts forward. One challenge for the Midwest is to engage a larger number of community college faculty in future Vision and Change activities. Results from the workshop and the larger conference will be shared with the life sciences community, primarily via the www.pulsecommunity.org website.