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

与美国数学协会(MAA)前两年课程更新委员会(Crafty)合作，一个由11个机构组成的联盟将合作修订和改进低年级本科数学课程的课程。这些创新的一个关键要素将是跨学科合作，合作学科直接参与课程需求的决策。总体而言，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，支持所有学生改善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名本科生和200名大学教职员工。该项目还将培养一个跨学科教员网络，以便通过分享成功地在各机构内部和跨机构建立实用的跨学科伙伴关系的经验和想法，促进社区和机构的变革。课程改革和跨学科协作过程产生的材料和想法将通过国家会议讲习班、两期期刊特刊、广泛出版物和公开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。在该项目的11个参与机构中，数学和合作伙伴学科教员将合作更好地理解CF建议，确定如何利用这些建议有效地改进受影响课程的内容，对试点部分进行修改，与中央评估小组合作以衡量新方法的有效性(特别是当它与代表不足群体的学生有关时)，为使用这些新课程的教师(地方、地区和国家)提供讲习班和支持，并在联合体内扩大这些新课程的规模，并通过传播到更多的校园。中央评价将产生广泛的、一致收集的数据，以准确确定创新伙伴关系和由此产生的课程改革的影响。此外，该项目将对学院学习共同体(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.