Maintaining the PULSE: Sustaining Efforts of the Vision and Change Leadership Fellows to Transform Life Sciences Education

华盛顿大学被授予奖项，以协调PULSE愿景和变革领导力研究员的努力，以试点、广泛实施并使一系列计划可持续，统称为“PULSE变革路线图”，作为本科生生命科学教育伙伴关系(PULSE)使命的一部分，以催化院系转型。2012年9月，PULSE合作伙伴(HHMI、NIH和NSF)任命了40名愿景与变革领导力研究员，以刺激本科生命科学教育的变革，正如愿景与变革报告所建议的那样。研究员从两年制学院、文理学院、综合性大学和研究型大学中挑选出来。研究员们组成了工作组，总体目标是帮助各系转变其计划，在全国范围内努力增加学生对核心概念的学习，增加学生对科学的保留，并为所有学生培养更具好奇心和科学素养的公民做好准备。目前的奖项是监督、协调和为工作组的努力提供通信和信息管理支持，每个工作组都侧重于路线图的一部分。从不同工作组的努力中产生的方案和机制是针对生命科学系教育变革的一套相辅相成的倡议和工具。当协同和协调地使用它们时，它们将是最有效的。《展望与变革》报告载有改进本科生生命科学教育的若干建议，但没有提出实施战略。研究员们制定的举措和工具构成了解决这一问题的“变革路线图”，并将成为各部门通过“愿景和变革建议”的蓝图：各部门将认识到变革的必要性，评估其采用现状，制定战略计划，实施变革，评估其进展情况，并因在实现目标方面取得进展而获得奖励。工作组的重点是创建材料以促进对变革必要性的认识，发展区域网络以促进变革，认证方案以评估、表彰和奖励采用建议的部门，愿景与变革大使方案以协助各部门制定战略并实施变革工具和方法。该奖项还包括开发和试点评估工具和战略，以评估期望的变化和项目对全国生命科学教育的影响。该奖项将支持寻找长期维持PULSE计划下开始的倡议的机制的努力。整个PULSE“变革路线图”项目的结果将在Pulsecomomity.org网站上公布，并在专业会议上与生命科学界分享。该项目由生物科学局和本科教育司教育和人力资源局联合资助，作为他们支持本科生物学教育愿景与变革的努力的一部分。

An award has been made to Washington University to coordinate the efforts of the PULSE Vision and Change Leadership Fellows to pilot, widely implement, and make sustainable a series of programs, collectively "The PULSE Roadmap for Change," to catalyze departmental transformation as part of 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 oversee, coordinate, and provide communications and information management support for the efforts of the working groups that each focuses on a part of the Roadmap. The programs and mechanisms that have emerged from the efforts of the different working groups are a complimentary set of initiatives and tools that target life sciences department educational change. They will be most effective when used synergistically and in a coordinated manner. The Vision and Change report contained a number of recommendations for improving undergraduate life sciences education but did not furnish an implementation strategy. The initiatives and tools that have been developed by the Fellows form a "Roadmap for Change" address this issue and will serve as a blueprint for departments to adopt the Vision and Change recommendations: departments will become aware of the need for change, evaluate their current state of adoption, develop strategic plans, implement changes, assess their progress, and be rewarded for progress toward the goals. The working groups are focused on creating materials to promote awareness of the need for change, regional network development to foster change, certification program to evaluate, recognize, and reward departments that adopt the recommendations, a Vision and Change Ambassador program to assist departments in developing strategies and implementing tools and methods for change. This award also encompasses development and piloting of assessment tools and strategies to evaluate the desired change and the impact of the programs on life sciences education nation-wide. The award will support efforts to find mechanisms to sustain for the long term the initiatives begun under the PULSE program. Results from the overall PULSE "Roadmap for Change" project will be posted on the pulsecommunity.org website and shared with the life sciences community at professional meetings. 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.