Access and Success: Undergraduate Education for the Twenty-First Century: Conference - Crytal City, VA, November 9-10, 2012

这个项目是一个为期两天的会议，由国家再造中心（RC）设计和赞助。它的标题和重点是“获得和成功：21世纪的本科教育”。研究委员会是博耶委员会报告的产物，该报告呼吁更多地关注和改善美国最大的研究型大学的本科教育。目前，教研委员会由67所缴纳学费的成员院校组成，每所院校由本科院长或副教务长代表。这些教育工作者组成了“本科生副教务长网络（UVP）”，这是该中心的智力核心。2012年全国会议的重点是本科教育在三个广泛的领域，由RC成员确定的关键问题面临的本科教育研究型校园全国：(1)认证，评估和问责制；（ii）增加对STEM领域毕业的坚持；（三）在资源（时间和金钱）不断减少的时代，支持本科教育的最佳管理实践。会议包括四次全体会议和15次专题会议。这些主题得到了美国国家科学基金会扩大循证改革实施和示范项目（WIDER）的广泛支持。2012年的会议将与会者与建筑师和实施者联系起来，这些建筑师和实施者非常明显地努力改善有用的STEM努力，包括美国大学协会（AAU）的STEM倡议，这是一项为期五年的倡议，于2011年秋季启动，旨在提高其成员机构在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的本科教学质量。它还将参与者与来自全国六个地区认证机构的代表联系起来。这些认证机构深刻地影响着本科教育，并有可能支持国家努力提高本科STEM教育的有效性。

This project is a two-day conference designed and sponsored by the national Reinvention Center (RC). Its title and focus is on "Access and Success: Undergraduate Education in the 21st Century." The RC is an outgrowth of the Boyer Commission Report that called for more attention to and improvement of undergraduate education in the nation's largest research universities. Currently, the RC comprises 67 dues-paying member institutions, each represented by its Undergraduate Dean or Vice Provost. These educators constitute the "Undergraduate Vice Provosts Network (UVP)," the intellectual core of the Center. The 2012 National Conference is focused on undergraduate education in three broad areas identified by the RC membership as critical issues facing undergraduate education at research campuses nationwide: (i) accreditation, assessment and accountability; (ii) increasing persistence to graduation in the STEM fields; and (iii) administrative best practices for supporting undergraduate education in an era of diminishing resources (time and money). The conference is comprising four plenary sessions and 15 topical sessions on these themes. These themes are broadly supporting of the new NSF program for Widening Implementation and Demonstration of Evidence-based Reforms (WIDER). The 2012 conference is connecting attendees with the architects and implementers of highly visible efforts to improve useful STEM endeavors, including the American Association of Universities (AAU) STEM initiative, a five-year initiative that kicked off in the fall of 2011 to improve the quality of undergraduate teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields at its member institutions. It is also connecting participants to representatives from the nation's six regional accrediting bodies. These accreditors profoundly impact undergraduate education and have the potential to support national efforts to improve the effectiveness of undergraduate STEM education.