Date: 31-Aug-2006
From: Kathleen Flint <kathleen.flint stonybrook.edu>
Subject: Transforming the Culture: Undergraduate Education and the Multiple Functions of the Research University
Transforming the Culture: Undergraduate Education and the Multiple Functions of the Research University
Date: 09-Nov-2006 - 10-Nov-2006
Location: Washington DC, USA
Contact: Debra Palmese
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/conference2006/
Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics
Meeting Description:
The Reinvention Center, established in 2000 as the only national organization to focus on undergraduate education at research universities, is holding a conference on 'Transforming the Culture: Undergraduate Education and the Multiple Functions of the University' on November 9-10, 2006, in Washington, DC. The National Science Foundation is a co-sponsor. The conference will investigate ways in which research universities can build on their distinctive assets and multiple functions to offer a unique research-inflected undergraduate education. In addition to research and graduate training, these functions include community and public service, technological innovation, and global enhancement. Participants will include faculty, administrators, professional staff and graduate students, along with officials from professional societies, government agencies, and private foundations. A driving interest will be to stimulate the formation of productive partnerships between undergraduate education and other functions in order to strengthen teaching and learning, create expanded opportunities for students, and prepare students for the changing needs of an increasingly mobile, global, and multi-lingual society. A second goal will be to familiarize conference participants with recent advances in research on learning and with new technologies and their potential application in diverse educational settings. Sessions will focus on an array of issues in curriculum, scholarship, and pedagogy within disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts. A number of sessions will look to the future and consider how to use education to address challenges such as the increasing fluidity among disciplines and the growing cultural diversity and changing demography of the undergraduate population. The program and registration materials are available at http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/conference2006/. Early registration deadline: October 2, 2006. For more information contact: reinventionstonybrook.edu; (631) 632-4544
Transforming the Culture: Undergraduate Education and
the Multiple Functions of the Research University
A Conference Sponsored by The Reinvention Center
and the National Science Foundation
November 9-10, 2006
Washington, DC
Early Registration Deadline: October 2, 2006
DAY 1
8:00 - 8:15 Welcoming Remarks: Reinvention Center Director Wendy Katkin
8:15 - 9:00 The Multiple Functions of the Research University: Where
Does Undergraduate Education Fit In?
Speaker: James Moeser, Chancellor and Professor of Music, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9:00 - 10:15 Panel: A Case Study: Creating a Culture of Collaboration at
the University of California, Berkeley
Panelists: Elizabeth Dupuis, Head of Instructional Services,
The Library, and Mellon Project Director, University of California,
Berkeley;
Victoria Robinson, Lecturer, Ethnic Studies and American Cultures
Coordinator and 2003-04 Mellon Fellow and Mellon Steering Committee
Member,
University of California, Berkeley;
Cynthia Schrager, Special Assistant to the Vice Provost for
Undergraduate
Education and Mellon Steering Committee Member, University of
California, Berkeley
10:30 - 12:15 Breakout Sessions I: Integrating Core Functions
- The reciprocal relationships among research, teaching, and learning
Leader: Robert Full, Chancellor Professor of Integrative Biology and
Director,
Center for Integrative Biomechanics in Education and Practice,
University of California-Berkeley
- 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
- Partnering with Industry
Leader: John Lamancusa, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and
Director,
The Learning Factory, Pennsylvania State University
- 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 Presidential 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
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch/Visit the Marketplace
2:00 - 3:15 Translating Principles of Learning into Educational
Applications
Speakers: Robert A. Bjork, Distinguished Professor of Cognitive
Psychology and Chair, Department of Psychology, University of
California,
Los Angeles;
Janet Metcalfe, Professor of Psychology and of Neurobiology and
Behavior,
Columbia University
Moderator: William J. Gehring, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of
Psychology,
University of Michigan
3:30 - 5:15 Breakout Sessions II: Applying Principles of Learning and
Technology in Diverse Educational Settings
A. At the Institutional Level
- 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, Steward
Observatory, University of Arizona
- Internationalizing the undergraduate experience: Moving beyond course
work
and study abroad
Leader: Gretchen Kalonji, Systemwide Director, International Strategy
Development, University of California
- 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 University
- Technologies to enable and evaluate collaborative projects in
undergraduate education
Leader: Kent L. Norman, Associate Professor of Psychology, University
of Maryland
B. Within Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Contexts
- Applying research and technology in teaching science to majors and non-
majors
Leader: Ron Hoy, David and Dorothy Merksamer Professor of Biology,
Cornell University
- In writing and writing-intensive courses
Leader: Joseph Harris, Director, University Writing Program, Duke
University
- In the humanities, and lettered social sciences: Creating new modes of
scholarly activity
Leader: Massimo Riva, Professor of Italian Studies, Brown University
5:30 Reception/Visit the Marketplace of Ideas
DAY TWO
8:00 - 8:15 Introduction to Day Two: Director Wendy Katkin
8:15 - 9:45 Supporting Integrative Models
''Nurturing the Teacher-Scholar: the HHMI Professors Program''
Speaker: Thomas Cech, President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
''Making Undergraduate Education an Integral Part of the Global Research
University.''
Speaker: Wayne Clough, President, Georgia Institute of Technology
10:00 - 11:45 Breakout Sessions III: Preparing an Educated Citizenry:
Integrative Models of Undergraduate Education
A. At the Institutional Level
- 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 Leader: Robert Hummer, Professor of Sociology, University of
Texas at Austin
- Entrepreneurship as liberal education
Leader: William Scott Green, Professor of Religious Studies, Senior
Vice Provost, and Dean of Undergraduate Education, University of Miami
- Expanding opportunities for funding through new synergies
Leaders: Gail Giebink, Director of Foundation Relations, and Lucia
Gilbert, Professor of Educational Psychology and Vice Provost,
University of Texas at Austin
B. Within and Across Disciplines
- Science education in the US: training the next generation
Leader: Tim Stearns, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and
of Genetics, Stanford University
- Within the humanities and discursive 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
- Within the arts: New media, new strategies
Leader: Christa Erickson, Associate Professor of Art, Stony Brook
University
- In fields of study that cross intellectual domains: Multimedia in the
core Leader: Steven Anderson, Associate Director for the Honors in
Multimedia Scholarship Program, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, and
Research Assistant Professor of Interactive Media, 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
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 New Research Opportunities Through Technology
Speaker: Edward L. Ayers, Dean of Arts and Sciences and Hugh P. Kelley
Professor of History, University of Virginia
2:00 - 3:30 Wrap-up/Future Directions
Panelists: Edward L. Ayers, William Scott Green, David J. Helfand
Moderator: Rosemary Haggett, Acting Deputy Assistant Director,
Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation
3:30 - 3:45 Closing Remarks: Director Wendy Katkin
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