RCN-UBE: Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges

生命科学专业的学生必须具备良好的数学和定量技能，才能在生物技术、医疗保健和农业等日益丰富的数据职业中工作。 社区学院为美国近一半的本科生提供服务，包括许多少数民族、低收入、第一代和代表性不足的学生，其中许多学生正在追求生命科学的职业生涯。 在这个快速变化的领域，重要的是社区学院教师有最新的教学材料，反映在生物学和创新的数据分析方法的最新发现。 这个RCN-UBE网络将汇集一个两年制大学教师社区，以创建适当的教材并提供专业发展，目标是将尖端生物学研究和高影响力的教学实践结合起来，以提高学生的成绩。 授权社区学院教师提高学生的成功将对科学和技术劳动力的资格和多样性产生重大影响。 该网络开发的资源将在定量本科生物学教育和综合（QUBES），国家科学数字图书馆（NSDL），社区学院开放教育资源联盟（CCCOER）和类似的开放获取内容中心公开许可和提供，从而维持资源超出了赠款的范围。专业发展将在各种会议和研讨会上亲自提供，以及通过QUBES教师辅导网络模型进行虚拟提供。 该网络的重点是为社区学院教师和社区学院教师生成材料;然而，开放教育资源（OER）收集和旨在支持使用这些材料的专业发展与所有生物学教师教授入门本科课程有关，网络之外的教师可以自由使用和调整资源用于自己的课程。该网络将促进兼职教师的准备和未来教师的招聘，否则他们可能没有机会与全国各地的全职社区学院教师建立关系。该项目由生物基础设施部生物科学理事会和本科教育部教育和人力资源理事会共同资助，作为应对本科生物学教育中的愿景和变革所带来的挑战的努力的一部分：行动呼吁（网址：//visionandchange/finalreport/）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进行评估，更广泛的影响审查标准。

Life sciences students must be well equipped with the mathematical and quantitative skills to work in the increasingly data-rich careers in biotechnology, health care, and agriculture. Community colleges serve almost half of the undergraduates in the U.S., including many minority, low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students, and many of these students are pursuing careers in life sciences. In this rapidly changing field, it is important that community college faculty have up-to-date teaching materials that reflect the most recent discoveries in biology and innovative data-analysis approaches. This RCN-UBE network will bring together a community of two-year college faculty to create appropriate teaching materials and offer professional development with the goal of incorporating cutting-edge biology research and high-impact teaching practices to improve student outcomes. Empowering community college faculty to increase student success will have a significant impact on the qualifications and diversity of the science and technology workforce. The resources developed by the network will be openly licensed and available in the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES), National Science Digital Library (NSDL), Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER), and similar open-access content hubs, thus sustaining the resources beyond the span of the grant. Professional development will be offered in person at various conferences and workshops, as well as virtually through the QUBES Faculty Mentoring Network model. This network focuses on generating materials for and by community college faculty; however, the Open Education Resources (OER) collection and the professional development designed to support the use of these materials are relevant for all biology faculty teaching introductory undergraduate courses, and faculty outside of the network are free to use and adapt the resources for their own curriculum. The network will advance preparation of adjunct faculty and recruitment of future faculty, who might not otherwise have the opportunity to build relationships with full-time community college faculty around the country. This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure, 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/).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.