Education, Innovation, and Discovery: The Distinctive Promise of the American Research University

跨学科(99)这个项目是一个为期两天的会议，主题是“教育、创新和发现：美国研究型大学的独特前景”。会议定于2008年11月13日和14日在华盛顿特区举行。这是由重塑中心主办的第四个大型论坛，重塑中心是一个研究型大学联盟，成立于2000年，灵感来自博耶委员会的报告《重塑本科教育》(1998)。这次会议恰逢博耶报告发表十周年，该报告挑战研究型大学重塑其本科教育，以强调探究、调查和发现，并充分利用它们独特的研究文化、价值观和资源。这次会议为研究型大学的领导人提供了一个机会，让他们集体总结过去十年来本科教育方面出现的改革和进步，强调产生了相应结果的方法和做法，并在这些经验的基础上进一步推进创新进程。总体目标是继续确定研究型大学的发现和创造力环境如何塑造和增加本科教育的独特价值，并利用所获得的知识来改进课程和教学实践。具体目标是：-调查通识教育的不同方法，以便指导个别校园编制其基础课程--使研究型大学社区的多样性和国际性走在前列，以便它们被公认为真正的教育资产--增进对评估和问责的知识和理解，并使教师参与进来，以便他们可以对当前的讨论做出有意义的贡献，并将评估纳入其教学和学生学习--展示如何利用技术丰富教学和增加学生的参与，这些目标是构建本科教育的关键，将研究型大学产生和传递知识的核心使命与国家对能够在全球经济中竞争的强大劳动力的需求联系起来。

Interdisciplinary (99)This project is a two-day conference on "Education, Innovation, and Discovery: The Distinctive Promise of the American Research University." The conference is scheduled to take place in Washington, DC on November 13 and 14, 2008. It is the fourth major forum sponsored by the Reinvention Center, a consortium of research universities established in 2000 and inspired by the Boyer Commission report, "Reinventing Undergraduate Education" (1998). The conference coincides with the tenth anniversary of the publication of the Boyer report, which challenged research universities to reinvent their undergraduate education so that it emphasizes inquiry, investigation, and discovery and takes full advantage of their unique research cultures, values, and resources. This conference is an opportunity for leaders in research universities to take stock collectively of the reforms and advances in undergraduate education that have emerged in the past decade, highlight approaches and practices that have produced consequential results, and build on these experiences to further the process of reinvention. The overarching goal is to continue the process of determining how the research university environment of discovery and creativity shapes and adds distinctive value to undergraduate education and to use the knowledge gained to improve curricular and pedagogical practices. Specific objectives are: - To investigate diverse approaches to General Education in order to guide individual campuses as they craft their foundational curriculum - To bring the diversity and internationality of the research university community to the forefront so that they are recognized and appreciated as genuine educational assets - To advance knowledge and understanding of assessment and accountability and engage faculty so that they may make a meaningful contribution to current discussions and also incorporate assessment into their teaching and student learning - To demonstrate ways in which technology can be used to enrich teaching and increase students' engagement, retention and intellectual and cognitive growth - To promote strategies for educating undergraduates to be productive citizens in an increasingly global and scientific environment - To demonstrate ways in which a research-inflected education will strengthen students' development of fundamental skills in quantitative reasoning, scientific literacy, and writing and also foster the development of higher order cognitive skills These objectives are key in constructing an undergraduate education that connects the research university's core missions to generate and transmit knowledge with the national need for a robust workforce that can compete in a global economy.