Project Kaleidoscope Leadership Transition

该项目支持一个工作组的持续努力，该工作组正在指导万花筒项目（PKAL）从一个主要是志愿者的独立组织转变为一个与美国学院和大学协会（AAC U）有密切联系的组织，这是一个代表广泛大学和学院的国家组织。 自1989年成立以来，PKAL一直是美国在STEM领域建立和维持强大的，以探究为重点的本科课程的主要倡导者之一。 这个新的联盟正在努力培养和建立一个更强大的国家选区，以支持将联合收割机最佳当代STEM实践与变革性教学结合起来的活动，以确定一个授权的方法星座，定义二十一世纪STEM研究，教学和学习中的学术卓越。工作组成员来自各种机构，确保人员、地点和经验的多样性。 它正在编写一系列白色文件，概述PKAL在其新的体制背景和新的领导下的未来方向和优先事项。 在过渡期结束时，对PKAL成功的总结性评估正在通过AAC U国家认可的质量、课程和评估办公室进行协调，并正在衡量赠款的有效性，实际上，PKAL进入新角色的运动。

The project supports the sustained efforts of a working group that is guiding the transition of Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) from a largely volunteer, independent organization into one that has a strong connection with the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), a national organization representing a wide range of universities and colleges. Since its founding in 1989, PKAL has been one of the leading advocates in the United States for building and sustaining strong, inquiry-focused undergraduate programs in the STEM fields. This new affiliation is working to foster and build a stronger national constituency to support activities that combine the best contemporary STEM practices for all students with transformative teaching in order to identify an empowering constellation of approaches that define academic excellence in twenty-first century STEM research, teaching, and learning. The working group, which includes members from a variety of institutional types, ensures diversity of people, place and experience. It is producing a series of white papers, outlining future directions and priorities for PKAL in its new institutional context and under its new leadership. A summative evaluation of PKAL's success at the close of the transition period is being coordinated through AAC&U's nationally-recognized Office of Quality, Curriculum, and Assessment and is measuring the effectiveness of the grant and, indeed, of PKAL's movement into its new role.