Project Kaleidoscope: Investing in Faculty Leaders

万花筒项目提高了科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教师的能力，他们负责本科学习环境的强度和支持他们工作的基础设施。该项目建立在8000人的“万花筒项目”非正式联盟的基础上，并超越了这一联盟，直接影响到300个核心机构的教师，代表了高等教育的多样性，他们将成为多学科团队的领导者。在本科STEM教育中，将现有和新兴的几代领导人正式联系起来，并为不可避免的领导层过渡做准备，这将产生广泛的影响——如果要维持当前加强本科STEM的举措，这种联系是必不可少的。这项全国性的努力旨在培养STEM领导者的多学科团队，以增加对基于研究的理解的参与，从而应对跨学科的挑战，以及那些与科学技术进步和学生日益多样化有关的挑战。项目的核心是15个讲习班、后续支助和领导机构，然后编制和分发项目材料。评价包括对车间小组和高级管理人员进行的纵向研究。

Project Kaleidoscope enhances the capacity of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) faculty responsible for the strength of undergraduate learning environments and of the infrastructures supporting their work. Building on and reaching beyond the Project Kaleidoscope informal alliance of 8000 persons, the project directly impacts faculty at 300 core institutions, representing the diversity of higher education that they will prepare as leaders of multi-disciplinary teams. Broad impact results from formally connecting present and emerging generations of leaders within undergraduate STEM education and preparing for the leadership transition that is inevitable- connections that are essential if current initiatives for strengthening undergraduate STEM are to be sustained. This national effort develops multi-disciplinary teams of STEM leaders in order to increase involvement in research-based understanding and thereby tackle interdisciplinary challenges, and those that relate to scientific and technological advances and the increasing diversity of students. Fifteen workshops, follow-up support, and leadership institutes followed by preparation and dissemination of project materials comprise the heart of the project. Evaluation consists of longitudinal studies administered to workshop teams and senior administrators.