The National
Science Foundation has recently provided four additional years of funds to expand the
FIRST I project and continue undergraduate faculty professional development, and to
undertake a larger-scale, national dissemination of instructional practices, materials and
support systems for undergraduate faculty interested in improving their teaching.
The
FIRST II project currently involves four faculty teams who participated in the initial
phase of the FIRST project and are associated with Archbold Biological Station, FL,
Hancock Biological Station, Murray State University, KY, Kellogg Biological Station,
Michigan State University, and the San Diego State University field stations, CA. These
faculty teams will be acting as mentors for four new faculty teams in FIRST II. Two
faculty teams have already been chosen and are associated with the Baltimore Long Term
Ecological Research Site and the University of Akron field sites.
We
are seeking two additional faculty teams and associated field sites based in the
western US and in the north-central US who would like to participate in the next phase
of the FIRST project. The field
station/marine laboratory/educational field site must be affiliated with a university or
college to be eligible for participation.
