[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-环境生物学教育创新”的项目获得了研究协调网络-本科生生物学教育奖。PI团队正在形成一个网络，以支持大学毕业生职业发展到环境生物学的劳动力发展，包括生态学，进化，保护，植物生物学和自然资源管理等领域。该网络正在学术人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。 Next Generation Careers将邀请来自这些领域的40名代表参加研讨会，以确定潜在的资源需求，培训课程，劳动力发展和调整，以及环境生物学教学的方向。为了告知参与者，Next Generation Careers正在调查生物学系的主席，本科生职业发展官员，生物学教师和数学和生物学的联系教师。 对相关工作中入门级职位的招聘广告进行审查，可以进一步了解获得副学士或学士学位的毕业生最常用的技能。 此外，在协作的学科协会和专业协会会议上举行的八次互动会议为网络的工作提供了投入。 参与水平的评估，网络空间，包括信息和文件交流的电子平台，以及项目成果，为有效的网络开发和有价值的本科生职业发展的设计过程提供信息。 该项目由生物科学理事会，生物基础设施司和教育和人力资源理事会，本科教育司共同资助，以支持应对本科教育中的愿景和变革所带来的挑战：行动呼吁http://visionandchange.org/finalreport/。

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/.