Collaborative Research: A National Consortium for Synergistic Undergraduate Mathematics via Multi-institutional Interdisciplinary Teaching Partnerships (SUMMIT-P)

由11所大学组成的财团将与美国数学协会（MAA）的两年课程更新委员会（CRAFTY）合作，共同修订和改进低年级本科数学课程。这些创新的一个关键要素将是跨学科的伙伴关系，伙伴学科直接参与课程需求的决策。总的来说，该联盟将通过实施MAA课程基础（CF）项目的主要建议，改变本科数学课程，以支持改善所有学生的STEM学习，同时建设未来的STEM劳动力，从而影响来自广泛学科的52,000多名本科生和200多名大学教师。该项目还将培育跨学科教师网络，通过分享经验和想法，促进社区和机构转型，成功地在机构内部和跨机构建立功能性跨学科伙伴关系。课程变化和跨学科合作过程产生的材料和想法将通过全国会议的研讨会、两份期刊特刊、广泛的出版物和公开的网络研讨会广泛传播。该项目将基于对伙伴学科需求的研究，如CRAFTY组织的一系列22个讲习班所确定的那样。在参与该项目的11所院校中，数学和合作学科的教师将合作更好地理解CF的建议，确定如何有效地使用这些建议来改进受影响课程的内容，在试点部分引入修改，与中央评估小组合作衡量新方法的有效性（特别是当它涉及到来自代表性不足群体的学生时）。为使用这些新课程的教师提供研讨会和支持（本地、区域和全国），并在联盟内扩大这些新课程的规模，并通过传播到其他校园。中央评价将产生广泛的、持续收集的数据，以准确地确定创新伙伴关系和由此产生的课程变化的影响。此外，该项目将为教师学习社区（FLC）知识库做出重大贡献，并在更广泛的本科课程中更好地理解数学的跨学科性质。

In conjunction with the Committee on Curriculum Renewal Across the First Two Years (CRAFTY) of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), a consortium of eleven institutions will collaborate to revise and improve the curriculum for lower division undergraduate mathematics courses. A key element of these innovations will be interdisciplinary partnerships, with partner disciplines directly involved in decisions about curricular needs. Collectively, the consortium will impact over 52,000 undergraduate students and 200 college faculty from a wide array of disciplines through implementing major recommendations from the MAA Curriculum Foundations (CF) Project and changing the undergraduate mathematics curriculum in ways that support improved STEM learning for all students while building the STEM workforce of tomorrow. The project will also foster a network of cross-disciplinary faculty in order to promote community and institutional transformation through shared experiences and ideas for successfully creating functional interdisciplinary partnerships within and across institutions. Materials and ideas generated by the curricular changes and the interdisciplinary collaborative process will be widely disseminated through workshops at national conferences, two journal special issues, extensive publications, and open webinars. This project will be based on research about the needs of partner disciplines, as identified in a series of 22 workshops organized by CRAFTY. At each of the eleven participating institutions in the project, mathematics and partner discipline faculty will collaborate to better understand the CF recommendations, determine how these recommendations can be used to effectively improve the content of affected courses, introduce modifications in pilot sections, work with a central evaluation team to measure the effectiveness of new approaches (especially as it pertains to students from underrepresented groups), offer workshops and support for instructors using these new curricula (locally, regionally, and nationally), and scale-up these new offerings within the consortium and through dissemination to additional campuses. The central evaluation will yield extensive, consistently-collected data to accurately determine the effects of innovative partnerships and resulting curricular changes. Additionally, the project will contribute significantly to the Faculty Learning Communities (FLC) knowledge-base and generate a greater understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of mathematics within the broader undergraduate curriculum.