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Date: 31-Aug-2006
From: Kathleen Flint < kathleen.flint at stonybrook.edu >
Subject: Transforming the Culture: Undergraduate Education and the Multiple Functions of the Research University 

	
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:30:55
From: Kathleen Flint < kathleen.flint at 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: reinvention at stonybrook.edu 
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: reinvention at stonybrook.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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