Southeast Regional PULSE Conference Planning Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 9-11, 2013

2013年8月9日至11日，乔治亚格威内特学院获得了一项奖励，以举办一次研讨会，计划召开一次区域会议，以促进本科生生命科学教育伙伴关系（PULSE）的使命。2012年9月，PULSE合作伙伴（HHMI， NIH和NSF）任命了40名愿景和变革领导研究员，以刺激愿景和变革报告中建议的本科生命科学教育的变革。获奖者来自两年制学院、文理学院、综合性大学和研究型大学。这些奖学金获得者组成了工作小组，其总体目标是帮助各部门在全国范围内改变他们的项目，以增加学生对核心概念的学习，提高学生对科学的忠诚度，并使所有学生都成为更具好奇心和科学素养的公民。目前的奖金将用于资助乔治亚州亚特兰大的一个研讨会，在该研讨会上，位于美国东南部的14名领导研究员将计划于2014年春季举行的东南（SE）区域PULSE （SERP）会议。SERP会议将为院校团队提供一个场所，以建立意识、技能、实施计划和支持网络，以便在其家乡校园进行改革。这些研究员将在研讨会上与一位专家合作，他的专长包括评估学术会议的成果，并与东南生物学家协会和美国生物科学研究所的代表合作，规划该地区的协同活动。这一区域网络将扩大PULSE的影响，与南方学院和学校协会大学委员会认可的州内的机构建立联系，其中许多机构目前还没有PULSE领导研究员的代表。虽然这个区域网络将是测试“远景与变革”工作组正在开发的资源的几个“实验室”之一，但讲习班组织者认识到，在推动“远景与变革”的努力方面，该国的每个区域都面临着独特的挑战和机遇。东南地区的一个机会是让大量的hbcu和其他少数民族服务机构参与未来的愿景和变革活动。讲习班和更大的区域会议的成果将主要通过www.pulsecommunity.org网站，但也通过会议发言和出版物，与其他区域网络和生命科学界分享。该项目由生物科学理事会和本科教育司教育和人力资源理事会共同资助，作为其支持本科生物学教育的愿景和变革的努力的一部分。

An award has been made to Georgia Gwinnett College to conduct a workshop from August 9-11, 2013 to plan a regional conference to promote the mission of the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Science Education (PULSE). In September 2012 the PULSE partners (HHMI, NIH, and NSF) appointed 40 Vision and Change Leadership Fellows to stimulate transformative changes in undergraduate life science education as recommended in the Vision and Change report. Fellows were selected from two-year colleges, liberal arts colleges, comprehensive universities and research universities. The Fellows have organized into working groups with the overarching goal of helping departments transform their programs in a national effort to increase student learning of core concepts, increase student retention in the sciences, and prepare all students to be more curious and scientifically literate citizens. The current award is to fund a workshop in Atlanta, GA in which the fourteen Leadership Fellows located in the Southeastern United States will plan a Southeastern (SE) Regional PULSE (SERP) Conference to be held in spring of 2014. The SERP Conference will provide a venue for institutional teams to build the awareness, skills, implementation plan, and support network to undertake reform on their home campuses. The Fellows will partner at the workshop with a scholar whose expertise includes evaluating the outcomes of academic conferences and with representatives from the Association of Southeastern Biologists and the American Institute of Biological Sciences to plan synergistic activities in the region. This regional network will expand the impact of PULSE by reaching out to institutions in states accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, many of which are not currently represented by PULSE Leadership Fellows. While this regional network will be one of several "laboratories" for testing the resources being developed by the PULSE working groups, the workshop organizers recognize that each region of the country faces unique challenges and opportunities in moving Vision and Change efforts forward. One opportunity for the Southeast is to engage the large number of HBCUs and other Minority Serving Institutions in future Vision and Change activities. Results from the workshop and the larger regional conference will be shared with other regional networks and with the life sciences community, primarily via the www.pulsecommunity.org website, but also through conference presentations and publications.This project is being funded jointly by the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Directorate of Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to support Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education.