Collaborative Proposal: Partnering to Improve Undergraduate STEM Education Conference

这是格鲁吉亚州四所综合性大学的合作会议提案：格鲁吉亚南方大学、肯尼索州立大学、西格鲁吉亚大学和瓦尔多斯塔州立大学。会议研讨会提案的目标是将这四个机构聚集在一起讨论，计划和实施变革，以改善全州的本科STEM教育。本次会议将集中在四个方面：网关课程，教师教学和学习，教育研究和本科生研究。这四个主题对这些机构的学生及其教师的成功至关重要。会议的一个主题是在这些机构的院系之间建立合作和伙伴关系，以便他们能够分享最佳做法，发起变革，并研究变革对招聘，保留和毕业率的影响。通过集中这四个机构的努力与格鲁吉亚的大学系统的指导下，研讨会的成果可能会达到广泛的STEM教师（从而学生）在整个国家，以解决学生谁开始作为STEM专业在大学的低持久性。具体而言，研讨会将制定计划，以改善本科STEM教育，并增加这些机构的本科生的研究机会。与会者将计划如何评估这些努力的有效性，特别是在增加STEM专业毕业的持续性方面。专注于所有四所格鲁吉亚的综合性大学是独一无二的，因为这些机构渴望平衡研究，教学和服务期望，比研究和文科机构更大的程度。人们普遍认为，格鲁吉亚州的综合性大学应该共同努力，提高本科生STEM保留、进步和毕业，这次会议研讨会将有助于启动这项联合工作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This is a collaborative conference proposal from the four comprehensive universities in the state of Georgia: Georgia Southern University, Kennesaw State University, University of West Georgia, and Valdosta State University. The goal of the conference workshop proposal is to bring these four institutions together to discuss, plan, and implement changes to improve undergraduate STEM education across the state. This conference will focus on four strands: gateway courses, faculty teaching and learning, education research, and undergraduate research. These four topics are critical to the success of students and their faculties at these institutions. A theme of the meeting is to establish collaboration and partnerships among the faculties of these institutions, so that they can share best practices, initiate change, and study the impact of change on recruitment, retention, and graduation rates. By focusing the efforts of these four institutions with guidance from the University System of Georgia, the workshop outcomes may reach a broad spectrum of STEM faculty (and thereby students) across the state, to address the low persistence of students who begin as STEM majors in college. Specifically, the workshop conference will establish plans to improve undergraduate STEM education and to increase research opportunities at these institutions for undergraduate students. Participants will plan how to evaluate the effectiveness of these efforts, particularly in increasing the persistence of STEM majors to graduation. Focusing on all four of Georgia's comprehensive universities is unique in the sense that these institutions aspire to balance research, teaching, and service expectations to a greater degree than research and liberal arts institutions. There is widespread agreement that the comprehensive universities in Georgia should be working jointly to improve our undergraduate STEM retention, progression, and graduation and this conference workshop will serve to initiate this joint work.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.