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

【RCN UBE孵化器】下一代职业-环境生物学教育创新

• 批准号: 1539911
• 负责人: Teresa Mourad
• 金额: $ 4.82万
• 依托单位: Ecological Society of America
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-15 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1539911&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; UBE; Incubator; Next; Generation

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/.

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 团队正在组建一个网络，以支持大学毕业生职业发展进入环境生物学领域的劳动力发展，包括生态学、进化、保护、植物生物学和自然资源管理等领域。该网络正在学术教师和管理人员以及私营部门、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。为了向参与者提供信息，Next Generation Careers 正在对生物学系主任、本科生职业发展官员、生物学教员以及数学和生物学领域的教员进行调查。 对相关职位的入门级职位招聘广告的审查可以提供有关具有副学士学位或学士学位的毕业生最常寻求的技能的更多信息。 此外，合作学科协会和专业协会会议上的八次互动会议正在为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）以及项目成果的评估正在为有效的网络开发过程和有价值的本科生职业发展的设计提供信息。 该项目由生物科学局生物基础设施司和教育和人力资源局本科教育司联合资助，以支持应对《本科教育愿景与变革：行动呼吁》中提出的挑战的努力http://visionandchange.org/finalreport/。