RCN-UBE: PULSE Ambassadors - Creating a National Leadership Network to Accelerate Departmental Transformation towards Vision and Change

本科生生命科学教育伙伴关系(PULSE)是由国家科学基金会、国家卫生研究院/NIGMS和霍华德·休斯医学研究所共同发起的一项全国性努力，旨在促进社区广泛采纳本科生物学教育的愿景与变革：行动呼吁(V&AMP；C)的建议。Pulse Flowers制定了支持全国各地生命科学系的计划，因为他们的教职员工寻求整合V&amp；C的教育最佳实践，以造福于下一代科学家。PULSE大使计划是为了解决一个关键需求而开发的：组织变革，如教职员工的主要课程改革，往往受益于外部顾问的催化和支持。该计划已在从社区学院到研究型大学等十个不同的机构成功试行，现在将通过建立一个强大和多样化的全国训练有素的大使网络来扩大该计划，他们将把校园研讨会带给广泛的高等教育机构。网络参与者将被有意招募，以确保机构、种族和地理的多样性，以使尽可能多的学生受益，促进未来生物专业的更大毅力，并在所有参加生物课程的大学生中提高科学素养和科学进程。将评估该计划的影响，以成功地促进参与的部门的长期变革，并将根据需要修改和调整组成部分，以最大限度地提高效力。PULSE大使计划是专门设计的，旨在让生命科学系参与批判性对话，讨论教员对实施V&amp；C建议和随时间变化的目标的愿景，为系提供必要的技能来指导组织变革，并将教员与PULSE社区的关键资源联系起来。将建立一个代表我国机构和人口多样性的强有力的国家大使网络，以满足社区日益增长的需求。将招募和培训不同的网络参与者和PULSE大使社区，以支持部门参与(目标1)；通过大使网络参与者和美国各地生命科学部门的合作促进组织变革(目标2)；并制定和实施系统评估计划，以评估和适应性地管理网络活动(目标3)。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，作为他们应对《本科生物学教育的愿景与变革：行动呼吁》(http://visionandchange/finalreport/).)中提出的挑战的努力的一部分

The Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE) is a national effort by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health/NIGMS, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute to promote broad community adoption of the recommendations of Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (V&C). PULSE Fellows have developed programs to support life sciences departments across the nation as their faculties seek to integrate V&C's educational best practices for the benefit of the next generation of scientists. The PULSE Ambassadors program was developed to address a key need: organizational change, such as major curricular reform by faculty, often benefits from catalysis by and support of external consultants. The program was successfully piloted at ten diverse institutions, from community colleges to research universities and will now be expanded by developing a robust and diverse national network of trained Ambassadors who will bring on-campus workshops to a broad array of institutions of higher learning. Network participants will be intentionally recruited to ensure institutional, ethnic, and geographic diversity in order to benefit the broadest possible array of students, to promote greater persistence among prospective biology majors, and to advance scientific literacy and the process of science among all college students taking biology courses. The program's impacts will be evaluated with respect to successfully promoting long-term change in the departments that are engaged and components will be modified and adapted as necessary to maximize effectiveness. The PULSE Ambassadors Program is specifically designed to engage life sciences departments in critical dialogue about the faculty's vision for the implementation of V&C recommendations and goals for change over time, provide the department with the skills necessary to guide organizational change, and connect faculty with key resources of the PULSE community at large. A robust national network of Ambassadors who are representative of the institutional and demographic diversity in our country will be built to meet the increasing demand from the community. A diverse community of network participants and PULSE Ambassadors will be recruited and trained to support departmental engagement (Aim 1); stimulate organizational change through collaborations of Ambassador network participants and life sciences departments across the U.S. (Aim 2); and develop and implement a systemic assessment plan to evaluate and adaptively manage network activities (Aim 3). This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/).