RCN-UBE: PULSE Ambassadors - Creating a National Leadership Network to Accelerate Departmental Transformation towards Vision and Change

本科生生命科学教育伙伴关系（PULSE）是由国家科学基金会，国立卫生研究院/NIGMS和霍华德休斯医学研究所共同努力的一项全国性工作，旨在促进广泛的社区采纳本科生生物学教育的愿景和变革的建议：行动呼吁（V C）。 PULSE研究员已经制定了计划，以支持全国各地的生命科学部门，因为他们的院系寻求整合V C的教育最佳实践，为下一代科学家的利益。 PULSE大使计划是为了解决一个关键需求而开发的：组织变革，例如教师的主要课程改革，通常受益于外部顾问的催化和支持。 该计划在十个不同的机构，从社区学院到研究型大学，成功地进行了试点，现在将通过发展一个强大而多样化的受过培训的大使国家网络来扩大，这些大使将把校园研讨会带到广泛的高等教育机构。 网络参与者将被有意招募，以确保机构，种族和地理多样性，以使尽可能广泛的学生受益，促进未来生物学专业的持久性，并提高科学素养和所有大学生参加生物学课程的科学过程。 将评估该方案的影响，以成功地促进参与部门的长期变革，并根据需要修改和调整各组成部分，以最大限度地提高效率。 该脉冲大使计划是专门设计的，从事生命科学部门在关键对话有关教师的愿景，为V C的建议和目标的实施随着时间的推移变化，提供必要的技能，以指导组织变革部门，并连接教师与脉冲社区的关键资源在大。 将建立一个强大的全国大使网络，他们代表我国的机构和人口多样性，以满足社区日益增长的需求。 将招募和培训一个由网络参与者和PULSE大使组成的多元化社区，以支持部门参与（目标1）;通过大使网络参与者和美国各地生命科学部门的合作促进组织变革（目标2）;制定和实施系统评估计划，以评估和适应性管理网络活动（目标3）。 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，作为其努力解决本科生物学教育中的愿景和变革所带来的挑战的一部分：行动呼吁（http：//visionandchange/finalreport/）。

The Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE) is a national effort by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health/NIGMS, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute to promote broad community adoption of the recommendations of Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (V&C). PULSE Fellows have developed programs to support life sciences departments across the nation as their faculties seek to integrate V&C's educational best practices for the benefit of the next generation of scientists. The PULSE Ambassadors program was developed to address a key need: organizational change, such as major curricular reform by faculty, often benefits from catalysis by and support of external consultants. The program was successfully piloted at ten diverse institutions, from community colleges to research universities and will now be expanded by developing a robust and diverse national network of trained Ambassadors who will bring on-campus workshops to a broad array of institutions of higher learning. Network participants will be intentionally recruited to ensure institutional, ethnic, and geographic diversity in order to benefit the broadest possible array of students, to promote greater persistence among prospective biology majors, and to advance scientific literacy and the process of science among all college students taking biology courses. The program's impacts will be evaluated with respect to successfully promoting long-term change in the departments that are engaged and components will be modified and adapted as necessary to maximize effectiveness. The PULSE Ambassadors Program is specifically designed to engage life sciences departments in critical dialogue about the faculty's vision for the implementation of V&C recommendations and goals for change over time, provide the department with the skills necessary to guide organizational change, and connect faculty with key resources of the PULSE community at large. A robust national network of Ambassadors who are representative of the institutional and demographic diversity in our country will be built to meet the increasing demand from the community. A diverse community of network participants and PULSE Ambassadors will be recruited and trained to support departmental engagement (Aim 1); stimulate organizational change through collaborations of Ambassador network participants and life sciences departments across the U.S. (Aim 2); and develop and implement a systemic assessment plan to evaluate and adaptively manage network activities (Aim 3). This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/).