EAGER: Raising the Awareness of PULSE Through a Targeted Public Awareness Campaign to Engage Life Science Departments in Implementing Vision and Change

华盛顿州立大学（Washington State University）获得了一项奖项，以组织一项全国性的努力，以提高对本科生生命科学教育伙伴关系（PULSE）的认识。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，以刺激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，此后组织成四个工作组，以应对改革各类本科院校生物学教学方式的不同挑战。“愿景与变革领导力”奖学金的重点是生命科学系如何鼓励和奖励教职员工为改善本科生生命科学教育所做的努力。这样的改进应该增加学生的学习，应该提高学生在科学方面的保留率，应该让所有的学生都成为更好奇、更有科学素养的公民。目前的奖项是为提高脉搏工作组的公众意识运动提供资金。实施《愿景与变革行动呼吁》中提出的建议的一个障碍是对报告本身的认识。因此，这个多步骤的活动计划确保美国所有部门的领导都了解愿景与变革报告，并了解PULSE活动。为了实现这些目标，将编写供会议使用的宣传材料，制作录象纪录片，突出改革本科生命科学教育的必要性，突出正在进行的有效努力，并编制两份《地方影响地图》，其中一份用于列出正在进行的国家改革努力，另一份用于记录研究员的持续活动。项目团队预计，PULSE公众意识运动将提高从事“愿景与变革”工作的教师的参与度，并将激励各院系在生物教育中实施系统性变革。对PULSE和Vision and Change的更多认识将有助于促进全国本科生物学教育的系统性变革。公众认识运动的结果将在具体的区域和国家会议上分享，并主要通过www.pulsecommunity.org网站更广泛地与生命科学界分享。该项目由生物科学理事会和本科教育司教育和人力资源理事会共同资助，作为其支持本科生物学教育的愿景和变革的努力的一部分。

An award has been made to Washington State University to organize a national effort to raise awareness 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 Public Awareness Campaign by the Raising the Pulse Working Group. One barrier to implementing the recommendations made in the Vision and Change Call to Action is an awareness of the report itself. Therefore, this multi-step campaign plans to ensure that all department leaders in the US know about the Vision and Change report and know about PULSE activities. These goals will be accomplished by developing promotional materials to be used at conferences, production of a video documentary to highlight the need to reform undergraduate life science education and to highlight effective efforts that are underway, and develop two Local Impact Maps, one to catalog national reform efforts underway and the second to document the continuing activities of the Fellows. The project team anticipates that the PULSE Public Awareness Campaign will increase participation of faculty engaged in Vision and Change efforts and will also motivate departments to implement systemic change in biology education. A greater awareness of PULSE and Vision and Change will help catalyze systemic change in undergraduate biology education throughout the country. Results from the Public Awareness Campaign will be shared at specific regional and national conferences and more broadly with the life sciences community, primarily via the www.pulsecommunity.org website.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.