Undergraduate Curriculum Development Testbed
(UCDT)
List of Presentations (as of November 1998)
UCDT Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
UM, North Campus
October 23, 1996
Group of eleven faculty met to review progress-to-date of the UCDT Project
and to discuss future direction for the Global Change curriculum.
President’s Office and Provost’s Office
UM, Central Campus
November 2, 1996
UCDT leadership met with Assistant to the President Gary Krenz and
Associate
Provost Susan Lipschutz to discuss next steps in developing a Global
Change
concentration.
NSF Grant Development Team/UM, Dearborn
University of Michigan at Dearborn
November 22, 1996
UCDT leadership presented progress-to-date during a meeting of the UM
Dearborn’s
Advisory Committee.
University of Michigan Administration Officials and Associate Deans
UM, Central Campus
November 25, 1996
Meeting with Associate Provost Susan Lipschutz, Assistant to the President
Gary Krenz, Associate Deans of Undergraduate Education Lincoln Faller
(LS&A),
J. Wayne Jones (Engineering), Harrison Morton (SNRE), and Karen Wixson
(Education).
UCDT leaders Tim Killeen, David Allan, Jim Walker, Jim Teeri and Eric Dey
met to discuss possible development of a concentration in Global
Change.
Ron Marx and School of Education Staff
UM, School of Education, Central Campus
December 1996
Meeting to discuss possible applications of the UCDT Web-based curriculum
to K-12 teaching and learning.
Provost’s Committee on the Environment Retreat
UM, Matthei Botanical Gardens
March 28, 1997
Dr. Killeen demonstrated the Web-based curriculum to the Provost’s
Committee on the Environment.
NSF/SRI Site Visit and Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
UM, North Campus
April 9, 1997
Bob Kozma and Dan Sullivan represented NSF and SRI on a visit to the
University
of Michigan to evaluate UCDT progress. Fourteen faculty and five graduate
student assistants attended the Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting to
participate
in an update on progress-to-date and to answer questions about the climate
for interdisciplinarity at UM.
NASA/USRA Earth System Science Educators (ESSE) Conference
Biosphere II, Oracle, Arizona
May 15, 1997
Professor Tim Killeen and two graduate student instructors (Bridget Fahey
and Sean Cash) delivered a presentation of the UCDT’s Web-based
curriculum
and laboratory modules to ESSE Conference participants.
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Spring Meeting
Baltimore, Maryland
May 29, 1997
Graduate student instructor (GSI) Sean Cash delivered a presentation of
the UCDT’s Web-based curriculum and laboratory modules.
University of Michigan Board of Regents
UM, Central Campus
July 17, 1997
The Office of the Vice President for Research made a formal presentation
to the University of Michigan Board of Regents on the Undergraduate
Research
Opportunities Program (UROP). Students who had taken one or both of the
Introduction to Global Change courses were featured in this video
presentation.
During this meeting, the Provost proposed a plan to the Board of Regents
to spend $450,000 to enhance research opportunities for
undergraduates.
Second International Conference on Geoscience Education (GeoSciEd
II)
Hilo, Hawaii
July 30, 1997
Sean Cash (GSI) taught an hour-long computer workshop for instructors
interested
in replicating the UCDT’s Web-based curriculum.
Project Kaleidoscope
Walla Walla, Washington
October 2-3, 1997
Professor Tim Killeen, Diana Stralberg (GSI), and Joseph Fenty (evaluator)
gave two two-hour presentations on UCDT’s Web-based curriculum and
the team’s evaluation effort.
The Changing Global Environment: Interdisciplinary Opportunities and
Challenges
UM, Rackham Graduate School, Central Campus
October 16 - 17, 1997
Professor Tim Killeen and the Office of the Vice President for Research
hosted a symposium primarily focusing on research opportunities in
Geographic
Information Systems (GIS).
Michigan Space Grant Consortium
UM, North Campus
October 25, 1997
UCDT team members demonstrated the Web-based curriculum to Secondary
School
Educators at the Michigan Space Grant Consortium’s annual conference
.
President’s Office and Provost’s Office
UM, North Campus
November 17, 1997
UCDT team members Tim Killeen, Jim Teeri, David Allan and Eric Dey met
with
Assistant to the President Gary Krenz and Associate Provost Pamela Raymond
to discuss current status of the UCDT Project, NSF’s undergraduate
initiative for institutional reform and next steps in developing a Global
Change concentration.
National Science Foundation
Washington, District of Columbia
November 21, 1997
Professor Tim Killeen demonstrated the UCDT’s Web-based curriculum,
lab modules and evaluation efforts.
Project Alert (Augmented Learning Environment and Renewable Teaching)
Workshop
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Pasadena California
April 2-3, 1998
GSIs Diana Stralberg and Luis Fernandez gave a presentation to Project
Alert
members and JPL staff on the UCDT’s Web-based curriculum and computer
lab modules.
Global Change: A New Web-Based Curriculum for Multi-Disciplinary
Science
Education
Live Satellite Broadcast
University of Illinois
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
April 14, 1998
This Faculty Forum Broadcast Sponsored by NSF’s Division of
Undergraduate
Education had an audience of 1,000 downlink sites across the country. The
hour-long program included an overview of the Introduction to Global
Change
Web site, a video featuring student comments on the impact of the courses,
and a discussion of the issues involved in developing a rigorous, yet
accessible,
curriculum in Global Change for both science and non-science majors.
NASA/USRA Earth System Science Educators (ESSE)
Summer Workshop
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
June 29-July 1, 1998
The UCDT team hosted the Summer Workshop of the NASA/USRA supported Earth
System Science Educators (ESSE) group at the University of Michigan.
Workshop
centered on evaluation in Earth System Science curricula. The UCDT
evaluation
and teaching team presented the keynote presentation and a morning-long
workshop on curriculum evaluation.
Inter-American Institute (IAI) for Global Change Workshop:
"Earth System Science and Global Change: Building Capacity through
Education"
University de Autonoma Baja California
Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
September 7-18, 1998
GSI Luis Fernandez presented a description of the UCDT’s Introduction
to Global Change course sequence and a demonstration of the courses’
Web-Site.
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