[RCN UBE Incubator] Next Generation Careers - Innovation in Environmental Biology Education

美国生态学会与保护生物学学会合作，因其题为“下一代职业-环境生物学教育的创新”的项目，获得了“研究协调网络-本科生物学教育奖”。PI团队正在组建一个网络，以支持大学毕业生在环境生物学领域的职业发展，包括生态学、进化、保护、植物生物学和自然资源管理等领域。该网络正在教员和行政人员与私营部门、政府和非政府组织之间建立联系。“下一代职业”组织了来自这些领域的40名代表参加一个研讨会，以确定潜在的资源需求、培训课程、劳动力发展和协调以及环境生物学教学的方向。为了让参与者了解情况，“下一代职业”正在调查生物系的系主任、本科生职业发展官员、生物学教师以及数学和生物学联系的教师。对相关工作的入门级职位的招聘广告进行检查，为拥有副学士学位或学士学位的毕业生提供了最常见的技能方面的进一步信息。此外，在合作学科学会和专业协会会议上举行的八次互动会议正在为该网络的工作提供投入。对参与水平、网络空间（包括信息和文件交换的电子平台）和项目成果的评估，为有效的网络开发过程和有价值的本科生职业发展设计提供了信息。该项目由生物基础设施司生物科学司和教育和人力资源司本科教育司联合资助，以支持应对《本科教育的愿景与变革：行动呼吁》http://visionandchange.org/finalreport/所提出的挑战。

The Ecological Society of America, in collaboration with the Society for Conservation Biology, has received a Research Coordination Network - Undergraduate Biology Education award for their project entitled Next Generation Careers - Innovations in Environmental Biology Education. The PI team is forming a network to support workforce development for college graduate career progression into environmental biology, including fields such as ecology, evolution, conservation, plant biology, and natural resource management. The network is forging connections among academic faculty and administrators and the private sector, government, and non-governmental organizations. Next Generation Careers is bringing 40 representatives from across these sectors to a workshop to identify potential resource needs, training courses, workforce development and alignment, and directions in environmental biology teaching.To inform participants, Next Generation Careers is surveying the chairs of Biology departments, undergraduate career development officers, biology faculty and faculty at the nexus of mathematics and biology. Examination of job ads for entry level positions in related jobs is providing further information concerning the most commonly sought skills for graduates with Associate's or Bachelor's degrees. In addition, eight interactive sessions at collaborating disciplinary society and professional association meetings are providing input into the work of the network. Assessment of the level of participation, the network space, including electronic platforms for information and document exchange, and project outcomes is informing both the process of effective network development and the design of valuable undergraduate career progressions. This project is funded jointly by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education in support of efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Education: A Call to Action http://visionandchange.org/finalreport/.