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| Welcome to The Reinvention Center | The Reinvention Center is a national consortium of research universities dedicated to strengthening undergraduate education through networking, convening, and sharing.
If your institution is interested in becoming a member of the Reinvention Center, please contact us at reinvention@ad3.ucdavis.edu . | | 2012 National Conference | Access and Success:
Undergraduate Education in the 21st Century Research University
Sheraton Hotel, Crystal City Virginia
November 9-10, 2012
Pre-Conference UVP Meeting November 8
Co-Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Registration is Open
The 2012 Reinvention Center conference will feature plenaries with:
- Shirley Tilghman, President, Princeton University, The Uses and Abuses of Accreditation
- Judith Smith, Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education, UCLA: Academic Intrigue: 17 Years as UCLA's Dean of Undergraduate Education
- Martin Storksdieck, Director, Board on Science Education, speaking on The Changing Demands on STEM Education and Outreach at American Research Universities
- National Accreditation Roundtable with presidents / commissioners from all six US accrediting regions, moderated by Doug Lederman, editor of Inside Higher Education
| | 2010 Conference | Tradition, Innovation and Creativity: Undergraduate Learning for the 21st Century
Faculty from U.S. research universities came together at the fifth national conference of the Reinvention Center in November 2010 in Crystal City, VA to discuss the critical role of science and technology in the undergraduate curriculum, the continuing need for fine arts and humanities education, and methods of assessing teaching and learning inside and outside our classrooms.
2010 Conference Proceedings.pdf
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation.
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| | | | Spread the Word!
Conference Registration is Open
| | | | | | | | | | | From the Executive Director
NSF to Co-Sponsor the National Conference
I recently received word that the Reinvention Center's grant proposal has been approved, and the National Science Foundation will once again support expenses for our speakers and proceedings.
This calls to mind our strong STEM programming - please invite colleagues in the STEM disciplines to learn about national programs and developments that may benefit their work.
- Pat
Patricia A. Turner was named Executive Director in 2010. She is also Vice Provost - Undergraduate Education at UC Davis.
Curriculum Vitae | | | | | | | | | | | WTL-STEM Educator Initiative
2010 Conference Leads to Collaboration, Community, Publication
2010 Reinvention Center conferees Julie A. Reynolds, Christopher Thaiss, Wendy Katkin and Robert J. Thompson, Jr., published "Writing-to-Learn in Undergraduate Science Education: A Community-Based, Conceptually Driven Approach," in CBE Life Sci Educ. 2012 Spring; 11(1): 17–25.
| | | | | | | | | | | UVP Network
The Reinvention Center UVP network is a national network of Vice Presidents for Undergraduate Education and other senior officials who have campus- or college-wide responsibility for undergraduate education.
The network serves as a resource and a forum at which individuals with similar responsibilities can share experiences and information, discuss common problems, plan multi-campus projects, and speak in a collective voice. While there are national groups that address the common interests of provosts, deans of graduate schools, admission directors, and other administrators at research universities, there is no parallel group for senior administrators of undergraduate education.
| | | | | | | | | | | SPOTLIGHT: "Accountability for Improving Student Learning"
Every few months the Reinvention Center spotlights a topic of significance to research university faculty and administrators.
"Accountability for Improving Student Learning,"
by Robert Thompson, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, and Senior Consultant for Assessment, the Reinvention Center; and Jessica Jonson, Director of Institutional Assessment, University of Nebraska – Lincoln. | | | | | | |
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