Science Education for New Civic Engagement & Responsibility (SENCER)

该项目正在开发一个平台，在全国范围内进行传播，教师将通过研究公共问题的特别课程学习有效的科学教学，并在这些问题的框架内教授严谨的科学。 最初的模式是在以艾滋病毒/艾滋病为重点的课程框架内教授严格的生物学。 在赠款期间，正在准备其他模式，以提供一个广泛的公共问题菜单，其中包含与科学相关现象的重要基本主题。 传播模式将利用美国学院大学协会（AAC U）的机构和会议网络，为教师和研究生团队提供教师研讨会，这些团队将利用研讨会作为跳板，在自己的校园提供附带课程。 每一种模式都采用了最先进的实践教学法和技术，并提供了在各种其他科学，社会科学，人文科学和专业前学科中开设一系列“环绕式”课程的可能性。 每个研讨会团队将包括至少一名教师在科学部门，在一个专业或专业的预科学校，社会科学部门，和一名研究生。 参与者将被选中参加密集的住宿教师发展机构。 将通过审计咨询委员会联合会广泛的交流和会议基础设施，重点介绍并向审计咨询委员会联合会成员和其他有关各方介绍在参加这些研究所后制定的最有希望和最有效的地方附带举措和改革。

This project is developing a platform from which to engage in national dissemination in which faculty will learn about the effective teaching of science through special courses that examine public issues and teach rigorous science within the framework of those issues. The initial model is to teach rigorous biology within the framework of a course focused on HIV & AIDS. Other models are being prepared during the grant period to offer a broad menu of public issues with important underlying themes of science related phenomena. The dissemination model will use the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) network of institutions and meetings to offer faculty workshops to teams of faculty and a graduate student that will use the workshop as a springboard to offer spin-off courses on their own campuses. Each model employs the most sophisticated, hands-on pedagogy and technology, and offers the possibility of featuring a series of "wrap-around' courses in a variety of other science, social science, humanities, and pre-professional disciplines. Each workshop team will consist of at least one member of the faculty in a science department, in a pre-professional or professional school, a social science department, and a graduate student. Participants will be selected to participate in an intensive, residential faculty development institutes. The most promising and effective local spin-off initiatives and reforms that are developed as a result of attendance at these institutes will be highlighted and presented to AAC&U members and other interested parties through AAC&U's extensive communications and meeting infrastructure.