Reinvention Center's Conference Proposal: Transforming the Culture: Undergraduate Education and the Multiple Functions of the Research University (November 8-10, 2006)

这项赠款为将于2006年11月9日至10日在华盛顿举行的为期两天的“文化变革：本科教育和大学的多种功能”会议提供支持。 这是纽约州立大学斯托尼布鲁克创新中心举办的第三届两年一度的研究型大学本科生研究活动会议。 该中心和会议都植根于1998年博耶委员会的报告，“重塑本科教育：美国研究型大学的蓝图。“会议将透过全体会议和小组讨论，以个案研究的形式，全面探讨研究型大学的整体面貌，并探讨本科生研究与大学核心职能之间的联系。会议的学术价值来自于它在以下四个相互关联的领域促进知识和理解的潜力：（1）在本科生教育与大学其他核心职能之间建立创造性的伙伴关系;（2）将学习原则转化为易于理解和适用于不同学科和学习环境的学习原则;（3）利用技术促进学生在问题形成、批判性思维和发展科学探究所必需的高级认知技能方面的技能的发展;（4）将学科研究与课堂学习研究相结合，使学生更有效地参与发现过程。 会议的更广泛的影响来自计划广泛传播的研究型大学和本科教育的核心功能之间的协同作用，特别是基于发现为基础的学习的结果。

This grant provides support for a two-day conference on "Transforming the Culture: Undergraduate Education and the Multiple Functions of the University" to be held November 9-10, 2006 in Washington, DC. This is the third biennial conference on undergraduate research activities at research-intensive universities conducted by The Reinvention Center at SUNY Stony Brook. Both the Center and the conferences are rooted in the 1998 Boyer Commission report, "Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities." Using case studies in plenary and small-group sessions, the conference will consider a holistic view of the research university and examine links between undergraduate research and core functions of the university.The Intellectual Merit of the conference derives from its potential to advance knowledge and understanding in four interrelated areas: (1) establishing creative partnerships between undergraduate education and other core university functions; (2) translating principles of learning for ready accessibility and applicability to different disciplines and learning environments; (3) utilizing technology to facilitate development of student skills in question formulation, critical thinking, and development of high order cognitive skills essential to scientific inquiry; and (4) integrating disciplinary research with learning research in the classroom to more effectively engage students in the discovery process. Broader Impacts of the conference derive from planned wide dissemination of findings regarding synergy among core functions of the research university and undergraduate education, particularly that based in discovery-based learning.