Day
One: Thursday, November 9, 2006
Welcoming
Remarks and Introduction
Wendy Katkin, Director,
The Reinvention Center |
Plenary
Session: The Multiple Functions of
the Research University: Where Does Undergraduate Education Fit In?
This opening talk will examine the relationship between undergraduate
education and research universities’ other core functions and the
value in forming creative alliances among functions in order to enhance
undergraduate education.
Speaker:
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James
Moeser, Chancellor and Professor of Music, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Plenary
Session: A Case Study: Creating a
Culture of Collaboration at the University of California, Berkeley
This session will focus on UC Berkeley's Mellon Fellowship for Undergraduate
Research, a four-year, grant-supported initiative aimed at encouraging
and facilitating faculty collaboration with other campus academic partners
to strengthen the connections between undergraduate research, information
literacy, and library collections, particularly in large enrollment and
other large impact courses. Partners include the Library, Division of
Undergraduate Education, Graduate Division, Undergraduate Division in
the College of Letters and Sciences, Center for the Study and Teaching
of American Cultures, Office of Educational Development, Graduate Student
Instructors, Teaching and Resource Center, and Educational Technology Services.
Panelists:
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Elizabeth
Dupuis, Associate University Librarian for Educational Initiatives
and Director, Doe/Moffitt Libraries
Victoria
Robinson, Lecturer, Ethnic Studies & American Cultures
Coordinator, 2003-04 Mellon Fellow, and Mellon Steering Committee
Member
Cynthia
Schrager, Special Assistant to the Vice Provost for Undergraduate
Education and Mellon Steering Committee Member
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Breakout
Sessions: Integrating Core Functions
Aligning the goals and interests of undergraduate education with research
universities’ other functions and priorities can be difficult, particularly
when the priorities are seen as conflicting or competing. In these parallel
sessions, conference participants will examine challenges university faculty
and administrators face in connecting undergraduate education with other
university functions, and they will recommend strategies both for addressing the
challenges and for establishing productive partnerships.
- The
Reciprocal Relationships among Research, Teaching, and Learning
Leader:
Robert Full,
Chancellor and Goldman Professor of Integrative Biology and Director
of the PolyPEDAL Laboratory and of the Center for Biological Inspiration
in Education and Research (CIBER), University of California, Berkeley
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Stretching
the University’s boundaries: The local community as a resource
and site for teaching and learning
Leader: Rhonda
Y. Williams, Associate Professor of History, Case Western
Reserve University
- Embedding
public service and research in academic programs
Leader:
Carol Muller, Associate Professor of
Music, University of Pennsylvania
- Creative
models for integrating graduate and undergraduate education in
the sciences, math, and engineering
Leader:
Ellen Fanning,
Stevenson Professor of Molecular Biology, and Katherine
Friedman, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences,
Vanderbilt University
- Humanities
postdoctoral teaching fellowships in undergraduate education
Leader:
Ellen Woods,
Associate Director of the Introduction to the Humanities Program
and Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Stanford
University
- Library as
learning space and place
Leader: Lisa
Janicke Hinchliffe, Associate Professor of Library
Administration, Head of the Undergraduate Library, and Library-wide
Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Living
as learning: Integrating academic and residential experiences
Leaders:
Stephen L.
Esquith, Professor of Philosophy and acting Dean of
the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, and June
Youatt, Professor of Family and Child Ecology, Associate
Provost for Undergraduate Education and Dean of Undergraduate
Studies, Michigan State University
- Undergraduate
Research Centers: A Model for Incorporating Research into the
Mainstream Science Curriculum
Leader: Gabriela
Weaver, Associate Professor of Chemistry, and Director,
Center for Authentic Science Practice in Education, Purdue University
- Building
undergraduate research partnerships: Engaging education, government,
and industry
Leaders: George
T. Barthalmus, Director, Office of Undergraduate Research,
and Interim Head, Department of Zoology, North Carolina State
University, and Jennifer
Klimas, Research Director, Office for Research &
Sponsored Programs, University of North Carolina-Office of the
President
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Lunch/Visit the Marketplace
Plenary
Session: Translating
principles of learning into educational applications
Research universities have been at the forefront in establishing the new
“science of learning” which has the potential to change, and
even transform, the way teachers teach and students learn. This session
will provide an overview of recent advances in research on learning, consider
how effective application of relevant principles can improve faculty teaching
and student learning, and examine challenges of application within the research
university context.
Breakout
Sessions: Applying
Principles of Learning and Technology in Diverse Educational Settings
These sessions will investigate ways in which research universities can
apply basic research on learning and technological innovation to the undergraduate
mission. If used appropriately, for example, both of these advances can
provide a foundation for curricular development and for the adoption of
pedagogical strategies that promise to enhance undergraduates’ ability
to consume, produce, and apply knowledge. These advances can also be adapted
to different educational constructs, disciplinary learning styles, and the
needs of diverse populations.
| A.
At the Institutional Level |
B.
Within Fields and Majors |
These
sessions will consider ways in which principles of learning and new
technologies can transform instruction in contexts that cut across
departments and fields.
- In
high enrollment courses
Leader: William
J. Gehring, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Psychology,
University of Michigan
- In
designing and teaching an inquiry-based course/curriculum
Leader: Christopher
Impey, University Distinguished Professor and
Interim Head, Department of Astronomy, and Astronomer at
Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
- Internationalizing
the undergraduate experience: Moving beyond course work
and study abroad
Leader: Sharon V. Salinger, Professor of History and Dean, Division of Undergraduate Education, University of California, Irvine
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Teaching teachers: Incorporating
research on learning into professional development activities
Leader: Gregory
Light, Associate Professor of Education and Director,
Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University
- Approaching
teaching as we approach research: Establishing goals, collecting
the evidence, and measuring achievement
Leader: Robert
W. Brown, Institute Professor of Physics, Case
Western Reserve University
- Curricular
responses to diversity
Leader: Isabel
Nazario, Associate Vice President for Academic
and Public Partnerships in the Arts and Humanities, Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey,
- Technologies
to enable and evaluate collaborative projects in undergraduate
education
Leader:
Kent L.
Norman, Associate Professor of Psychology, University
of Maryland
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These
sessions will examine approaches to integrating research within different
fields and majors.
- Applying
research and technology in teaching science to majors and
non-majors
Leader: Ron
Hoy, David and Dorothy Merksamer Professor in Biology,
Cornell University
- In
writing and writing-intensive courses
Leader: Joseph
Harris, Director, University Writing Program, and
Cary A. Moskovitz, Director,
Writing in the Disciplines, Duke University
- In
the humanities and humanistic social sciences: Creating
new modes of scholarly activity
Leader: Massimo
Riva, Professor of Italian Studies, Brown University
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Day
Two: Friday, November 10, 2006
Introduction:
Summary of First-Day Activities and Introduction to the Second Day
Wendy
Katkin, Director, The Reinvention Center
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Plenary
Session: Supporting Integrative Models
The creative integration of functions promises
not only to enhance aspects of undergraduate education, but it allows
also for innovative responses to some of the most persistent challenges
universities, and society more generally, face. This session will focus
on ways funding agencies and universities can work together to establish
common goals and initiate program that increase both of their capacities
to address them.
Breakout Sessions:
Preparing an Educated Citizenry: Integrative Models of Undergraduate Education
Successful integration
of their multiple functions can enrich and give new meaning to the undergraduate
education research universities offer, particularly as universities endeavor
to respond to the major forces that are re-shaping the world. These sessions
will examine institutional, disciplinary, and cross-disciplinary models
that exploit assets derived from the university’s various functions
to respond to the intellectual and cultural paradigm shifts that define
the current era. One session will address the costs of educational innovations
and new opportunities for funding resulting from creative partnerships.
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At Institutional Level |
B.
Within and Across Disciplines |
- Incorporating
new knowledge into the undergraduate experience
Leaders: David
Helfand, Professor and Chair of the Department of Astronomy
and Co- Director, Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, and Darcy
Kelley, Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia
University
- Developing
global citizens: A comprehensive approach
Leader: Veronica
Makowsky, Professor of English and Vice Provost for
Undergraduate Education, University of Connecticut
- Addressing
the changing demography in the United States through education
Leaders: Robert
Hummer, Professor of Sociology, and Pauline
Turner Strong, Associate Professor of Anthropology,
Folklore and Public Culture, and of Women's & Gender Studies,
University of Texas at Austin
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Entrepreneurship
as liberal education
Leader: William
Scott Green, Professor
of Religious Studies, Senior Vice Provost, and Dean of Undergraduate
Education, University of Miami
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Expanding
opportunities for funding through new synergies
Leaders: Gail
Giebink, Director of Foundation Relations,
University
of Texas at Austin and
Lucia Albino
Gilbert, Professor and Provost, Santa
Clara University
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- In the natural
sciences and engineering: Science education in the US: Training
the next generation
Leader: Tim
Stearns, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
and Genetics, Stanford University
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Within
the humanities and humanistic social sciences
Leader: Patricia
A. Turner, Professor of African-American Studies and
American Studies and Interim Dean of Humanities, Arts & Cultural
Studies, University of California-Davis
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Within the
arts: New media, new strategies
Leader: Christa
Erickson, Associate Professor of Art, Stony Brook University
- In fields
of study that cross intellectual domain: Multimedia in the core
Leader:
Holly Willis, Research Assistant Professor,
School of Cinema-Television, and Associate Director for
the Multimedia in the Core Program, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern
California
- Designing
Matter: Fusing Science and Humanities Approaches to Address Real
World Challenges
Leaders: Cassandra
Fraser, Professor of Chemistry, Jennifer
Aultman, Doctoral Student, Department of Anthropology,
and Raymond
Malewitz, Doctoral Student, Department of English,
University of Virginia
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Plenary
Session: New Research Opportunities Through
Technology
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Speakers: Edward
L. Ayers, Hugh P. Kelley Professor of History and Dean of Arts
and Sciences; Scott Nesbit, Doctoral Student, Department of History;
and Murre Martindale, Undergraduate Student in Politics, the University
of Virginia
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Plenary
Session: Future Directions
This concluding session will consist of a panel discussion in which members
from the natural and social sciences and the humanities will offer their
perspectives on the themes and interests that will dominate these fields
in the next three-to-five years. The panel will be followed by an interactive
discussion with conference participants.
Closing
Remarks |
