Workshop: Building Leadership Capacity for Systemic, Scalable and Sustainable Change in Undergraduate Biology Education; Spring, 2019

有建设校园领导能力，以促进制度变革，提高本科生物学学生的学习，保留和毕业的需求越来越大。虽然这些改进的方法是众所周知的，但它们在校园中的应用仍然没有得到广泛推广。为了促进这些改进的实施，校园领导发挥关键作用。特别是那些对预算、人事和政策有决策权的领导人（例如，系主任）既可以是守门人，也可以是促进这些努力取得成功的门户。最近的一项审查表明，需要在高等教育中建立共享的领导模式，以更有效地解决高校面临的日益复杂的问题。然而，没有明确定义使用这种模式领导所需的技能，也没有手册，研讨会或其他资源来帮助领导者发展这些能力。拟议的讲习班将汇集职位领导人，反思他们的经验和目前的领导力发展文献，以确定领导可扩展的，可持续的系统性体制变革所需的一套独特的能力。这些能力将被定义，然后用作构建资源的基础，这些资源将面向全国各地的职位领导者发展这些能力。这组能力将在摘要文章中发布，并用于创建领导力项目资源开发计划。参与者还将有助于开发资源，这些资源可以广泛用于通过高等教育协会和其他组织提供的高等教育领导力计划。这将培养领导者谁可以更有效地实施，规模和维持机构变革的努力，旨在提高本科生物学学生的访问，持久性和毕业的代表性不足的少数民族学生。这项工作也可能导致额外的讲习班，以发展相应的能力，教师，工作人员和学生谁是校园变革项目的参与者。最后，这项工作将有助于开发新的研究问题，以及领导人谁已经接触到新的资源展示的能力，并利用它们来更有效地领导校园变革的努力。该奖项由生物科学理事会生物基础设施部和教育和人力资源理事会本科教育部支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

There is an increasing need for building campus leadership capacity to facilitate institutional change that improves undergraduate Biology student learning, retention and graduation. While the approaches for making these improvements are well-known, their application on campuses is still not wide-spread. To facilitate implementation of these improvements, campus leaders play critical roles. In particular, those leaders with decision-making authority over budget, personnel and policy (e.g., deans) can either be gatekeepers or gateways to promoting the success of these efforts. A recent review makes the case for the need to develop shared leadership models in higher education to more effectively solve the increasingly complex problems facing colleges and universities. However, there is no clear definition of the skills required to lead using this type of model, nor are there manuals, workshops or other resources to help leaders develop these competencies. The proposed workshop will bring together positional leaders to reflect on both their experience and the current leadership development literature to define the set of distinctive competencies required to lead scalable, sustainable systemic institutional change. These competencies will be defined and then used as the basis for building resources that will be geared toward developing these competencies in positional leaders across the country. The set of competencies will be published in a summary article and used to create a plan for the development of leadership program resources. Participants will also contribute to the development of resources that can be made widely available for higher education leadership programs offered through higher education associations and other organizations. This will develop leaders who can more effectively implement, scale and sustain institutional change efforts geared towards improving undergraduate Biology student access, persistence and graduation of underrepresented minority students. This work may also lead to additional workshops to develop corresponding competencies for faculty, staff and students who are participants in campus change projects. Finally, this work will contribute to the development of new research questions regarding how well leaders who have been exposed to the new resources exhibit the competencies and use them to more effectively lead campus change efforts. This award is supported by the Division of Biological Infrastructure in the Biological Sciences Directorate and the Division of Undergraduate Education in the Education and Human Resources Directorate.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.