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

已向华盛顿州立大学颁发了一个奖项，以组织一次全国性的努力，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。 目前的奖项是资助提高脉搏工作组的公众意识运动。执行《愿景和变革行动呼吁》中所提建议的一个障碍是对报告本身的认识。因此，这一多步骤活动计划确保美国所有部门领导了解愿景和变革报告，并了解PULSE活动。这些目标将通过以下方式实现：编制供会议使用的宣传材料;制作一部录像纪录片，突出强调生命科学本科教育改革的必要性，并突出正在进行的有效努力;制作两份地方影响地图，一份是对正在进行的国家改革工作进行编目，另一份是记录研究员的持续活动。该项目团队预计，脉冲公众意识运动将增加参与愿景和变革的努力教师的参与，也将激励部门在生物学教育实施系统性变革。对PULSE和Vision and Change的更高认识将有助于促进全国本科生物学教育的系统性变革。公众意识运动的结果将在特定的区域和国家会议上分享，并主要通过www.pulsecommunity.org网站与生命科学界更广泛地分享。该项目由生物科学理事会和本科教育部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.