2004-2006 Leadership Initiative Seminar

2006 PKAL Leadership Seminar

November 17 - 19, 2006


The 2006 Leadership Seminar covered all three major themes of the PKAL National Colloquium & Leadership Initiative (research-rich, interdisciplinary, science for all), and the major thrust was how leaders (mostly within the LI community) are setting and measuring goals for student learning in each of those three areas. This 2006 colloquium builds upon and integrates the work of the LI Community, as well as on the 2005 Colloquium on “How People Learn,” and on the various PKAL roundtables on the future held over the past decade.

Event Topics included:

  • What does it take for a campus community to move toward visible and meaningful transformation of the undergraduate learning environment in mathematics, technology, and the various fields of science and mathematics?

  • What are the roles and responsibilities of campus leaders in shaping a vision, articulating goals and strategies, mobilizing a community to effective action?

  • What kaleidoscopic attention must academic leaders give to developing programs, faculty, budgets, and spaces for science in their pursuit of a sustainable and demonstrably robust undergraduate STEM learning environment?

  • How do leaders connect goals and strategies– for a research-rich learning environment, for one that reflects the contemporary interdisciplinary nature of science as it is practiced, for one that orients all students into the community of science– in their efforts toward institutional transformation?

  • How do you deal with all the nuts and bolts of trying to build and sustain a robust undergraduate STEM learning environment, for all students, now and into the future?

Resources

2006 Leadership Seminar Notebook
Lessons Learned: Fostering Informed Conversations and Taking Meaningful Actions Towards a Robust Undergraduate STEM Learning Environment that Serves All Students

Presentations

Snapshots: Facilities that Work
Pre-Event Facilities Seminar

Related Pages

Plenary: Influencing Positive Change in Parallel Universes
Donald G. Deeds, Nancy Jannik, Diane L. Schmidt, Donna L. Sundre
Who are our students, those now on our campus and those in the pipeline? What is their background, what skills, interests, and career aspirations do they bring into our classrooms and labs? What skills and capacities will they need to become 21st century leaders, innovators, life-long learners? In this plenary we delve more deeply into institutional strategies that center on strengthening student learning in STEM fields, considering by what measures we can determine how and if goals for student learning can be aligned with institutional policies and practices.