Workshop: Building Leadership Capacity for Systemic, Scalable and Sustainable Change in Undergraduate Biology Education; Spring, 2019

越来越需要建设校园领导能力，以促进制度变革，改善本科生生物学学生的学习、留住和毕业。虽然实现这些改进的方法是众所周知的，但它们在校园中的应用仍然不是很广泛。为了促进这些改进的实施，校园领导发挥着关键作用。特别是，那些在预算、人事和政策方面拥有决策权的领导人(例如院长)既可以是把关人，也可以是促进这些努力取得成功的门户。最近的一项审查表明，需要在高等教育中发展共享领导模式，以更有效地解决学院和大学面临的日益复杂的问题。然而，没有明确定义使用这种模式领导所需的技能，也没有手册、研讨会或其他资源来帮助领导者发展这些能力。拟议的讲习班将汇集职位领导人，反思他们的经验和当前的领导力发展文献，以确定领导可扩展、可持续的系统性体制变革所需的一套独特的能力。这些能力将被定义，然后用作建立资源的基础，这些资源将用于在全国各地的职位领导中发展这些能力。这组能力将发表在一篇摘要文章中，并用于制定领导能力计划资源的开发计划。参与者还将为开发可广泛用于通过高等教育协会和其他组织提供的高等教育领导力课程的资源做出贡献。这将培养能够更有效地实施、扩大和维持体制改革努力的领导人，这些努力旨在改善本科生物学学生的入学机会、坚持性和代表性不足的少数民族学生的毕业情况。这项工作还可能导致为参与校园变革项目的教职员工和学生举办更多的讲习班，以培养他们的相应能力。最后，这项工作将有助于开发新的研究问题，即接触到新资源的领导者如何很好地展示能力并利用它们更有效地领导校园变革努力。该奖项由生物科学局的生物基础设施部和教育和人力资源局的本科生教育部支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

There is an increasing need for building campus leadership capacity to facilitate institutional change that improves undergraduate Biology student learning, retention and graduation. While the approaches for making these improvements are well-known, their application on campuses is still not wide-spread. To facilitate implementation of these improvements, campus leaders play critical roles. In particular, those leaders with decision-making authority over budget, personnel and policy (e.g., deans) can either be gatekeepers or gateways to promoting the success of these efforts. A recent review makes the case for the need to develop shared leadership models in higher education to more effectively solve the increasingly complex problems facing colleges and universities. However, there is no clear definition of the skills required to lead using this type of model, nor are there manuals, workshops or other resources to help leaders develop these competencies. The proposed workshop will bring together positional leaders to reflect on both their experience and the current leadership development literature to define the set of distinctive competencies required to lead scalable, sustainable systemic institutional change. These competencies will be defined and then used as the basis for building resources that will be geared toward developing these competencies in positional leaders across the country. The set of competencies will be published in a summary article and used to create a plan for the development of leadership program resources. Participants will also contribute to the development of resources that can be made widely available for higher education leadership programs offered through higher education associations and other organizations. This will develop leaders who can more effectively implement, scale and sustain institutional change efforts geared towards improving undergraduate Biology student access, persistence and graduation of underrepresented minority students. This work may also lead to additional workshops to develop corresponding competencies for faculty, staff and students who are participants in campus change projects. Finally, this work will contribute to the development of new research questions regarding how well leaders who have been exposed to the new resources exhibit the competencies and use them to more effectively lead campus change efforts. This award is supported by the Division of Biological Infrastructure in the Biological Sciences Directorate and the Division of Undergraduate Education in the Education and Human Resources Directorate.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.