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Project Title:
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A Leadership Summit to Effect Change in Teaching and Learning
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BANR-O-04-02-A
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Major Unit:
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Division on Earth and Life Studies
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Sub Unit:
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Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
Board on Life Sciences
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RSO:
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Fagen, Adam
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Subject/Focus Area:
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Agriculture; Biology and Life Sciences; Education; Food and Nutrition
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A Leadership Summit to Effect Change in Teaching and Learning
October 3, 2006 - October 5, 2006
National Academy of Sciences Building
2100 C St. NW
Washington D.C.
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If you would like to attend the sessions of this meeting that are open
to the public or need more information please contact:
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| Contact Name:
Karen L. Imhof
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| Email:
kimhof@nas.edu
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| Phone:
(202) 334-3507
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Fax:
(202) 334-1978
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Agenda:
A LEADERSHIP SUMMIT TO EFFECT CHANGE IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources • Board on Life Sciences
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SUMMIT AND THE PROJECT, PLEASE VISIT THE PROJECT WEBSITE: http://dels.nas.edu/banr/summit
October 3-5, 2006
National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W. • Washington, D.C. 20418
(Building entrance at 2100 C Street, N.W.; C Street closed to automobile traffic from 21st-23rd Streets)
AGENDA
The committee will meet in CLOSED SESSION from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm while registration takes place
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2006
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Summit Registration in the C Street lobby
2:00 p.m. Welcome and Introduction
Ralph J. Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences
James L. Oblinger, Chancellor, North Carolina State University
(committee chair)
2:25 p.m. The USDA interest in agriculture education
Session Chair: W.R. “Reg” Gomes, Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California System; Chair, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
Gale A. Buchanan, Under Secretary for Research, Education, and
Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture
2:50 p.m. A call to action: Opening keynotes from the perspectives of industry and academia
Session Chair: Susan J. Crockett, Vice President and Senior Technology Officer, Health and Nutrition, General Mills, Inc. (committee member)
A Look Ahead
Gary Rodkin, Chief Executive Officer, ConAgra Foods, Inc.
University of the Future
Michael V. Martin, President, New Mexico State University (committee
member) [standing in for Peter McPherson, President, National
Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC)]
3:50 p.m. Undergraduate Education: Reflections on the Past and Future
Session Chair: Vernon B. Cardwell, Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota (committee member)
C. Eugene Allen, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Former Dean of
the College of Agriculture; Former Vice President for Agriculture,
Forestry, and Home Economics; and Former Provost for Professional
Studies, University of Minnesota
4:20 p.m. Introduction to breakout session 1
A. Charles Fischer, Past President and Chief Executive Officer, Dow
AgroSciences LLC (committee member)
4:30 p.m. Breakout session 1: Defining the goals of an education in agriculture
This breakout session will seek to answer questions such as: What are the goals of an undergraduate education in agriculture? How does it differ from other science degrees? What are we preparing students for?
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Welcome Reception
Poster session in the Upstairs Gallery (2nd floor) and Great Hall Foyer
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2006
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast in the Great Hall
8:30 a.m. Overview of program for the day
James L. Oblinger, Chancellor, North Carolina State University
(committee chair)
8:45 a.m. Remarks from U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
The Honorable Mike Johanns, Secretary of Agriculture
9:15 a.m. Panel on the agriculture classroom
This panel will include current discussions on teaching and learning.
Session Chair: Janet Guyden, Associate Vice President of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, Grambling State University (committee member)
How people learn
M. Suzanne Donovan, Program Director, Strategic Education Research
Partnership Institute; Study Director, How People Learn, National
Research Council
Re-envisioning our classrooms as learning laboratories
Robin Wright, Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development;
Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, College of
Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota
Moving towards institutional change in teaching and learning
Jose P. Mestre, Professor of Physics and Educational Psychology,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The convergence of culture and pedagogy: Implications for teaching and learning in STEM disciplines
Wynetta Y. Lee, Associate Vice President for Academic Planning,
Research & Graduate Studies, California State University, Monterey
Bay
10:45 a.m. Break
11:05 a.m. Agriculture education in the context of other disciplines
This session will feature speakers from primarily non-agriculture disciplines on the ways that agriculture contributes to research and development in other fields, highlighting the need to work together on reforming undergraduate education for mutual benefit.
Session Chair: Michael W. Hamm, C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, Michigan State University (committee member)
Rural Development
John C. Allen, Director, Western Rural Development Center; Professor
of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology, Utah State University
[by videoconference]
Regulatory Affairs: Two views
Jay Ellenberger, Associate Director, Field and External Affairs
Division, Office of Pesticide Programs, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
Sally L. Shaver, Associate Counselor for Agricultural Policy, Office
of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Medicine
Jay Moskowitz, Associate Vice President for Health Sciences
Research; Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of
Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University
Nutrition
Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food
Studies, and Public Health, New York University
12:30 p.m. Introduction to breakout sessions 2 and 3
Karen Gayton Swisher, President, Haskell Indian Nations University
(committee member)
12:40 p.m. Box lunches available in the Great Hall
1:00 p.m. Breakout session 2: Overcoming barriers to interdisciplinarity (during lunch)
For these breakout sessions, participants will stay in their institutional teams and work with other teams to identify barriers to working across disciplines and opportunities to overcome those barriers.
2:30 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. Breakout session 3: Concurrent topics, best practices, and implementation
These concurrent sessions will feature presentations on sample programs and best practices to address particular needs and objectives followed by a discussion on the opportunities and challenges to implementing similar objectives at other institutions.
Academic-industry partnerships domestically and abroad through internships and cooperative education
Thomas M. Akins, Executive Director, Division of Professional
Practice, Georgia Institute of Technology
Academic-industry partnerships: UC-Davis Program in Viticulture & Enology
Andrew L. Waterhouse, John E. Kinsella Chair in Food, Nutrition and
Health and Interim Chair, Department of Viticulture & Enology,
University of California, Davis
Articulation between community colleges and four-year institutions
Jerry Bolton, Dean of Agriculture, Kirkwood Community College, Cedar
Rapids, IA
Faculty development: Project Kaleidoscope
Jeanne Narum, Director, Project Kaleidoscope
Globalization of the science classroom
Robert T. Yuan, Professor Emeritus of Cell Biology & Molecular
Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park
Vanessa Sitler, senior undergraduate student in business management,
Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College
Park
How can we value teaching at tenure time?
Caitilyn Allen, Professor of Plant Pathology, University of
Wisconsin–Madison
International experiences outside of the U.S.
Frank Fear, Senior Associate Dean, College of Agriculture and
Natural Resources, Michigan State University
Paul Roberts, Director of Study Abroad and International Training,
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State
University
Partnerships for sustainable development of agriculture: Green Lands, Blue Waters Initiative
Nicholas R. Jordan, Professor of Agroecology, Department of Agronomy
& Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota
Professional Science Masters
Paul D. Tate, Senior Scholar in Residence and Co-director of the
Professional Science Master’s Initiative, Council of Graduate Schools
4:30 p.m. Reporting back on breakout session 2
Groups report back on their lunchtime discussion.
Moderator: Susan Singer, Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of the
Natural Sciences, Carleton College (committee member)
5:20 p.m. Introduction to breakout session 4 (Thursday morning)
Levon T. Esters, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Education and
Studies, Iowa State University (committee member)
5:30 p.m. Adjourn for the day
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2006
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast in the Great Hall
8:30 a.m. Breakout session 4: Identifying action items and next steps
These breakout sessions will enable participants to discuss opportunities and responsibilities for implementing change. Participants will divide into common stakeholder groups (e.g., academic administrators, teaching faculty, industry representatives, professional societies). Each group will seek to identify action items, challenges, and needed resources for moving forward with implementation.
10:15 a.m. Break
10:40 a.m. Reporting back on breakout session 4
Moderator: Patricia Verduin, Senior Vice President and Director of
Product Quality and Development, ConAgra Foods, Inc. (committee
member)
11:30 a.m. Summary and wrap-up
Michael V. Martin, President, New Mexico State University (committee
member)
James L. Oblinger, Chancellor, North Carolina State University
(committee chair)
12:00 p.m. Adjourn: Thank you for your participation.
CLOSED SESSION: Committee will meet from 12:00 - 4:00 p.m.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) building is located along the National Mall in Washington, D.C., close to the Lincoln Memorial and Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The entrance to the building is at 2100 C Street, N.W., between 21st and 22nd Streets. The entrance to visitor parking is on 21st Street, N.W., between C Street and Constitution Avenue. Please be aware that C Street is closed to automobile traffic between 21st Street and 23rd Street (NAS is located across from the State Department). Be prepared to show a photo ID to enter the NAS building.
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Closed Session Summary Posted After the Meeting
The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the meeting:
James Oblinger
Peter Bruns
Vernon Cardwell
Susan Crockett
Levon Esters
Charles Fischer
Janet Guyden
Michael Hamm
Michael Martin
Susan Singer
Karen Swisher
Patricia Verduin
The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:
Summit organization and roles
Summit reflections
Report outline
The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:
Annie Shuppy. "Agriculture Secretary Calls on Educators to Attract More Students to Agriculture-Related Professions." The Chronicle of Higher Education, Today's News, October 5, 2006.
Date of posting of Closed Session Summary:
October 6, 2006
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