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

RCN-UBE：PULSE 大使 - 创建国家领导网络，加速部门转型，实现愿景和变革

• 批准号: 1624182
• 负责人: Alix Fink
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Longwood University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1624182&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; UBE; PULSE; Ambassadors; Creating

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/).

本科生生命科学教育（PULSE）的合作伙伴关系是国家科学基金会，国立卫生/诺姆斯研究所和霍华德·休斯医学研究所的全国性努力，旨在促进社区广泛采用本科生物学教育的愿景和变化的建议：行动呼吁（V＆C）。 Pulse Fellows已经制定了支持全国生命科学部门的计划，因为他们的学院试图将V＆C的教育最佳实践整合起来，以使下一代科学家受益。 Pulse Ambassadors计划的制定是为了满足关键需求：组织变革，例如由教师进行的重大课程改革，通常会受益于外部顾问的催化和支持。 该计划已成功地驾驶了十个不同的机构，从社区学院到研究大学，现在将通过开发一个强大而多样化的国家训练有素的大使网络来扩展，这些网络将把校园内的研讨会带到广泛的高等教育机构中。 网络参与者将被故意招募，以确保机构，种族和地理多样性，以使学生受益最广泛的学生，以促进前瞻性生物学专业的更大持久性，并提高所有参加生物学课程的大学生中的科学素养和科学过程。 该计划的影响将在成功促进参与的部门的长期变化方面进行评估，并根据需要修改和调整组件以最大程度地提高效能。 Pulse Ambassadors计划是专门设计的，旨在让生命科学部门进行有关教师实施V＆C建议和随着时间变化目标的愿景的批判性对话，为部门提供指导组织变革所必需的技能，并将教职员工与Pulse Community的关键资源联系起来。 代表我国机构和人口多样性的大使的强大国家网络将建立，以满足社区日益增长的需求。 将招募和培训各种网络参与者和脉搏大使社区以支持部门参与度（AIM 1）；通过美国大使网络参与者和生命科学部门的合作来刺激组织变革（AIM 2）；并制定并实施系统评估计划，以评估和自适应管理网络活动（AIM 3）。 该项目由生物科学局和教育和人力资源局共同资助，本科教育司，作为解决本科生物学教育中愿景和变化所面临的挑战的一部分，诉讼：http：// visionandChange/finalreport/fivil and report/fines to to Claste to Calling opance to Calling to Claste to Claste to Calling to Calling to Calling to Clastection Chall。