PULSE; Implementing Change within and among Life Science Departments

摘要

Many efforts are under way to support individual faculty-member development and course revision to achieve the outcomes described in the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Vision and Change: A Call to Action (2011) report. For their contribution, staff from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH-NIGMS) wanted to support systemic institutional change for entire departments. To that end, they formed the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE) to collab-oratively focus their resources on catalyzing departmental change at all institutions of higher learning. Shawn Gaillard, PULSE Steering Committee member and program director at NIH-NIGMS, said that it is the partnership of the three agencies working together that makes PULSE distinct.