Yolanda S. George, AAAS

Deputy Director, Education

ygeorge@aaas.org

Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology: Chronicling Change,

Inspiring the Future Conference.

Goal of the V&C Follow-up Project

Identify, document and share the impacts of the V&C Initiative including ascertaining the following information:

How faculty and departments have disseminated and used the V&C report.

What changes have departments implemented as a result of the V&C report.

What changes have faculty implemented as a result of the V&C report.

What changes have professional societies implemented as a result of the V&C report.

Project Activities

Call for abstracts to determine conference attendees and other projects to be included in an online locator

Call for detailed abstract

Organizing a working conference

Collecting information via surveys

Analyzing Google searches & V&C website trends

Working Conference Goals and Objectives

This working conference has been designed to understand how change happens in undergraduate biology education.

Specific outcomes include:

Sharing and helping to disseminate innovative strategies;

Identifying shared challenges for continued change;

Understanding the role of leadership in undergraduate biology change and how to exert that leadership; and

Strengthening and expanding collaborative networks to support future change.

Products of this Vision and Change Project

A printed report with information collected from this conference, surveys, and analysis of web searches

An online abstract locator that can be used to search for information in detailed abstracts submitted by the biology community.

These products will be available on the web site (http://visionandchange.org/)

Who is Here at the Conference178 colleges and universities and 11 science or educational

organizations

Faculty 165

Department Chairs 42

Deans 23

Grad Students/Postdocs 15

Instructor/Lecturer 7

Association Staff 12

PULSE Fellows 33

Others 70

Vision and Change Advisors

Co-Chairs

Carol A. Brewer – University of Montana (Emeritus)

Alan I. Leshner – Chief Executive Officer, AAAS; Executive Publisher, Science

Members

Renato J. Aguilera – University of Texas at El Paso

Cynthia Bauerle – HHMI

Debra D. Bragg –University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Peter J. Bruns –Cornell University and HHMI

Juan Marcos Fernandez – Purdue University

Louis J. Gross – University of Tennessee

J.K. Haynes - Morehouse College

Elaine A. Johnson - City College of San Francisco

Felicia Keesing –Bard College

Donna Lange - Rochester Institute of Technology

Jay B. Labov - National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council

Muriel E. Poston – Pitzer College

Robert S. Seville – University of Wyoming

Maria Elena Zavala – California State University Northridge

Other Acknowledgements

Working Group Facilitators

(Page 21 of the Conference Program)

AAAS Staff

Conference Participants

Vision and Change Supporters and Collaborators

National Science Foundation

***Education and Human Resources (EHR), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)

***Directorate of Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI) 

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Science (NIGMS), Division of Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity (TWD)

USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)

http://visionandchange.org/