The Reinvention Center is a national center focusing on undergraduate education at research universities.

The Center was born of the excitement and intense national and international interest generated by the Boyer Commission Report, Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities (1998).

The Reinvention Center is a consortium of research universities dedicated to strengthening undergraduate education through networking, convening, and sharing.

*If your institution is interested in becoming a member of the Reinvention Center, please contact us at reinvention@miami.edu.

National Conferences

Proceedings of 4th Conference
November 2008
Proceedings of 3rd Conference
November 2006
Proceedings of 2nd Conference
November 2004
Proceedings of 1st Conference
November 2002

Grant-Funded Activities: How can the Reinvention Center help you?

The Reinvention Center can assist with the development and implementation of educational assessment, outreach and dissemination activities in conjunction with grant-funded programs. The NSF, for instance, requires all proposals to explicitly address the "Broader Impact" of the funded activity: "Effective integration of research and education at all levels infuses learning with the excitement of discovery and assures that the findings and methods of research are quickly and effectively communicated in a broader context and to a larger audience" (from "Merit Review Broader Impacts Criterion: Representative Activities," http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf032/bicexamples.pdf).

The Reinvention Center can:

• Serve as a resource by providing information on educational outreach activities and research findings and assisting campuses in new efforts;
• Carry out assessment of specific activities, including placing those activities in a larger context; and
• Serve as an agent for dissemination of outreach activities and project findings by circulating information through its regional and disciplinary networks, Web site, listservs, conferences, and other activities. Since regional meetings are attended by some 250 faculty and staff who come from nearly 100 public and private institutions and represent a wide spectrum of academic and professional interests, they provide an ideal forum for bringing knowledge, information, and models of successful initiatives to the larger research university community.

Please contact us for more information on how we can help you implement, disseminate, and assess your educational outreach activities.

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UVP Network

The Reinvention Center UVP network is a national network of Vice Presidents for Undergraduate Education and other senior officials who have campus- or college-wide responsibility for undergraduate education. The network serves as a resource and a forum at which individuals with similar responsibilities can share experiences and information, discuss common problems, plan multi-campus projects, and speak in a collective voice. While there are national groups that address the common interests of provosts, deans of graduate schools, admission directors, and other administrators at research universities, there is no parallel group for senior administrators of undergraduate education.

Spotlight

The Reinvention Center casts its Spotlight on "Why Do Student Learning Outcomes Focus on Pedagogy, Curriculum, & Assessment for Student Success? A Scholarly Response. Slide presentation made by Dr. Amy Driscoll, at the UVP meeting held at UCLA, May 29th 2009.

It's a Fact
Research universities make up only 3% of the 3,600 colleges and universities in the United States, but graduate 33% of the nation's baccalaureate recipients.

Trends and Patterns
The Boyer Commission offered ten recommendations for "reinventing" undergraduate education at research universities. To learn the extent to which universities initially acted on these recommendations, click here:

After the Boyer Report

The Center is currently conducting a follow up to assess their further progress. Please click on the link above for further information about institutional progress since the original report in 1998.