Symposium on Undergraduate STEM Education 2026 and Beyond: Achieving Exceptional Undergraduate STEM Education for All

该项目将有助于满足国家对强大的STEM劳动力和理解科学技术的公民的需求。为此，该奖项将支持一场全国性的公众对话，讨论现在应该采取的行动，以更好地将本科科学、技术、教育和数学教育与未来学生和未来劳动力的需求和目标结合起来。国家科学院的科学教育委员会和高等教育与劳动力委员会将召开会议。会议的重点将是本科STEM教育应如何应对高等教育快速变化的背景，包括人口和社会的变化、劳动力需求的变化、技术的进步以及跨学科方法的增加。总体目标是创建能够预测未来社会需求的教育体系，并为所有学生提供高质量的STEM教育，无论他们的背景、目标或本科学习途径如何。会议及相关活动将由一个九人计划委员会与美国科学院、工程院、医学院和美国国家科学基金会协商后组织。参与者将考虑以下问题：技术在学生的教育经历和未来工作中的作用；如何将融合思维融入本科学习，使学生参与到引人注目的问题中；如何支持教学、学习和STEM劳动力的准备，包括在STEM教学中。这些见解将对专业组织、学院和大学、国家科学基金会和其他联邦机构有所帮助。计划委员会将组织为期两天的公众研讨会，并在研讨会前后举办利益攸关方参与活动。项目活动将包括开发一个专门的网站，举办网络研讨会，赞助一场写作比赛，并发布一份关于活动及其成果的书面摘要。将做出有针对性的努力，确保广泛参与，以便讨论将包括来自少数民族服务机构、社区学院、专业机构、农村学院和大学以及其他不经常被纳入国家STEM教育对话的群体的观点。这些努力将借鉴研究和成功的项目，让学生、教育工作者、研究人员、高等教育管理者、政策制定者、资助者和行业代表就本科STEM学习的未来进行对话。该项目的影响将通过与来自各种机构类型的不同利益相关者的联系来扩大，以便他们能够参与并提供有关本科STEM学习、当前资源和未来机会的讨论。该奖项由美国国家科学基金会本科教育部、工程教育和中心部以及极地项目办公室共同资助。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will contribute to the national needs for a strong STEM workforce and a citizenry that understands science and technology. To this end, the award will support a national public dialogue about actions that should be taken now to better align undergraduate science, technology, education, and mathematics education with the needs and goals of tomorrow's students and tomorrow's workforce. The Board on Science Education and the Board on Higher Education and Workforce at the National Academy of Sciences will convene the meeting. The focus of the meeting will be on how undergraduate STEM education should respond to the rapidly changing context of higher education, including demographic and societal changes, changes in workforce demands, advances in technology, and increased interdisciplinary approaches. The overall goal is to create education systems that anticipate future societal needs and provide quality STEM education for all students regardless of their backgrounds, goals, or pathways through undergraduate learning. The event and related activities will be organized by a nine-member planning committee in consultation with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the National Science Foundation. Participants will consider issues such as: the roles of technology in both the students' educational experiences and in their future work; ways to integrate convergent thinking into undergraduate learning to engage students in compelling problems; how to support teaching, learning, and the preparation of the STEM workforce, including in STEM teaching. These insights will be helpful to professional organizations, to colleges and universities, and to NSF and other federal agencies.A planning committee will organize a two-day public symposium, along with stakeholder engagement activities that will take place before and after the symposium. The project activities will include developing a dedicated website, hosting webinars, sponsoring a writing competition, and publishing a written summary of the events and their outcomes. Targeted efforts will be made to ensure broad participation, so that the discussions will include perspectives from minority-serving institutions, community colleges, specialized institutions, rural colleges and universities, and other groups that are not as frequently included in national STEM education conversations. The efforts will draw on research and successful programs to engage students, educators, researchers, higher education administrators, policy makers, funders, and representatives from industry in conversations about the future of undergraduate STEM learning. The impact of the project will be extended through outreach to a diverse set of stakeholders from a wide variety of institution types, so that they can engage with and inform discussions on undergraduate STEM learning, current resources, and future opportunities. This award is co-funded by the NSF's Division of Undergraduate Education, Division of Engineering Education and Centers, and Office of Polar Programs.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.