The Center was launched with a day-long symposium on "The Boyer Report: A Second Anniversary Retrospective." The symposium, which took place on April 28, 2000 at the University of Stony Brook, examined the impact of the Commission's report on campuses across the country as well as other recent changes.

Topics
Forces driving "reinvention"
Impact of the Boyer Commission's report from diverse disciplinary and organizational perspectives
Directions for future initiatives

PROGRAM

Nancy Cantor  Provost, University of Michigan
"Reinvention: Why Now? Why Us?"

Don Bialostosky  Professor and Head, Department of English, Penn State University,,P
"The Boyer Commission Report: A View From an English Department"

Richard Reis  Director, Stanford Integrated Manufacturing Association, Stanford University
"CREATE: Creating Research Examples Across the Teaching Enterprise"

Clinton Rubin  Professor and Director, Center for Biotechnology, University at Stony Brook
Power Point presentation: "A Faculty Member's Angst Over Science in the Post-Genomics Era...Who is going to do the work?"

Robert Thompson  Dean, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University
"Enhancing Undergraduate Education at Duke University"

Wendy Katkin  Director, The Reinvention Center and Associate Provost for Educational Initiatives, University at Stony Brook
"The Role of the Reinvention Center"

Robert O'Neil  Director, The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and Professor of Law, University of Virginia
"Reinvention: Why Now?"

Robert McGrath Provost and Vice President for Brookhaven Affairs, University at Stony Brook
"The Boyer Commission Report and Stony Brook"

Judith Smith  Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, University of California at Los Angeles
"General Education Cluster Initiative at UCLA"

Judith Sunley  Assistant Director (Interim), Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation
"Reinventing Undergraduate Education: Where Do We Go From Here?"

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