Midwest Vision and Change Leadership Fellows Midwest Regional Planning Meeting

已向华盛顿大学颁发了一个奖项，以组织和举办2013年4月12日至14日的讲习班，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名愿景和变革领导研究员，以刺激本科生生命科学教育社区的变革。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。愿景和变革领导力研究员专注于生命科学系如何鼓励和奖励教师为改善本科生命科学教育所做的努力。 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。 目前的奖项是资助在圣路易斯，密苏里州的九个领导研究员从各种机构类型位于中西部和大平原地区的研讨会。其中一名参与者是领导理事会的成员，该理事会正在协调所有40名研究员的工作，其他参与者是四个脉冲工作组的成员。这次研讨会的主要目标是计划一个区域会议，通过愿景和变化的建议，将与学院和大学生物教育工作者协会（ACUBE）秋季会议。希望这次会议将促进形成一个区域网络，开始协调这一广大地理区域的教育改革努力。本次区域会议将扩大脉冲的影响，通过接触来自邻近国家的机构，如北和南达科他州，堪萨斯，伊利诺伊州，密歇根州和肯塔基州，目前没有代表脉冲领导研究员。虽然这一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，该国每个地区在推进“愿景和变革”努力方面面临着不同的挑战。 中西部面临的一个挑战是让更多的社区学院教师参与未来的愿景和变革活动。研讨会和大型会议的成果将主要通过www.pulsecommunity.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.