RCN-UBE Summit: A New Landscape for Undergraduate Biology Education

在过去十年中，通过增加学生在学术科学学科中的多样性来扩大参与的进展有限，对于那些历史上在科学领域代表性不足的学生来说，招聘和保留问题仍然存在。在RCN-UBE（本科生物学教育研究协调网络）计划中，超过50个学术机构的合作网络共同致力于本科生物学教育和扩大科学参与。这次会议，RCN-UBE峰会：创造本科生物学教育的新景观，将汇集RCN-UBE网络参与者，探讨机构网络如何共同努力改变科学学科的人口结构。会议将召集科学实践者、教育工作者和大学教师，通过跨越多种机构类型，从少数民族服务机构、历史上的黑人学院和大学，到更大的研究机构，评估网络在将科学事业转向更具包容性的方法方面的作用。在峰会上，RCN-UBE网络的参与者将展示最佳实践，并参与促进的研讨会，讨论本科教育和扩大科学参与的主题。每次讲习班会议还将探讨在现有网络的支助环境中形成新网络的机会，特别是由较小和少数族裔机构领导的新网络。将介绍案例研究和其他材料，以产生想法和潜在的解决方案，以吸引不同的学生作为科学知识生产的参与者，并开发创新的方法来增加在正式和非正式科学教育环境中使用这些知识。该项目由生物基础设施司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。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。

Broadening participation by increasing student diversity in academic science disciplines has shown limited progress over the last decade and recruitment and retention issues persist for those students historically underrepresented in science. In the RCN-UBE (Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education) program, over 50 collaborative networks of academic institutions work together to address undergraduate biology education and broadening participation in the sciences. The conference, RCN-UBE Summit: Creating New Landscapes in Undergraduate Biology Education, will bring together RCN-UBE network participants to explore how networks of institutions can work together to change the demographics of the science disciplines. The conference will convene science practitioners, educators, and university faculty to evaluate the role of networks in shifting the science enterprise towards a more inclusive approach by reaching across multiple institutional types from minority serving institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and larger research institutions. In the Summit, RCN-UBE network participants will present best practices and engage in facilitated workshop sessions to discuss topics in undergraduate education and broadening participation in the sciences. Each workshop session will also explore opportunities for new networks, especially those led by smaller and minority institutions, to form within a supportive environment of existing networks. Case studies and other materials will be presented to generate ideas and potential solutions to engage diverse students as participants in the production of scientific knowledge, and to develop innovative ways to increase the use of this knowledge in formal and informal science educational settings. This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure, 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/).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.