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

RCN-UBE：PULSE 大使 - 创建国家领导网络，加速部门转型，实现愿景和变革

• 批准号: 1624182
• 负责人: Alix Fink
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Longwood University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1624182&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; UBE; PULSE; Ambassadors; Creating

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/).

本科生命科学教育伙伴关系（PULSE）是由美国国家科学基金会、美国国立卫生研究院/NIGMS和霍华德休斯医学研究所共同发起的一项全国性努力，旨在促进广泛的社区采纳《本科生物学教育的愿景与变革：行动呼吁》（V&amp；C）的建议。PULSE研究员已经开发了支持全国生命科学部门的项目，因为他们的院系正在寻求整合V&amp；C的最佳教育实践，以造福下一代科学家。PULSE大使项目的开发是为了满足一个关键需求：组织变革，如教师的重大课程改革，往往受益于外部顾问的催化和支持。该项目已在从社区学院到研究型大学的10所不同院校成功试行，现在将通过建立一个强大而多样化的全国培训大使网络加以扩大，这些大使将在广泛的高等院校举办校内讲习班。网络参与者将被有意地招募，以确保机构、种族和地理的多样性，以使尽可能广泛的学生受益，促进未来生物学专业学生的更大坚持，并提高所有学习生物学课程的大学生的科学素养和科学进程。该计划的影响将被评估，以成功地促进参与部门的长期变化，并根据需要修改和调整组成部分，以最大限度地提高效率。PULSE大使项目是专门设计的，旨在让生命科学院系参与关键对话，讨论教师对实施V&amp；C建议和变革目标的愿景，为院系提供指导组织变革所需的技能，并将教师与PULSE社区的主要资源联系起来。将建立一个强大的全国大使网络，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。将招募和培训多元化的网络参与者和PULSE大使，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）；并制定和实施系统评估计划，以评估和适应性地管理网络活动（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，作为其应对《本科生物学教育的愿景与变革：行动呼吁》（http://visionandchange/finalreport/）所提出的挑战的努力的一部分。