Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) — Advancing what works in STEM education
About PKAL
Since its founding in 1989, PKAL has been one of the leading advocates in the United States for building and sustaining strong undergraduate programs in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Over two decades of existence and with an extensive network of higher education faculty members and administrators, PKAL has developed far-reaching influence within the undergraduate STEM community. PKAL is organized as an informal alliance of change agents working within and across colleges and universities to shape undergraduate STEM learning environments to attract undergraduate students to STEM fields. Through this work, students are inspired to persist and succeed by integrating their STEM learning with personal experience, the joy of discovery and an awareness of the influence of science and technology in the world.
For more information about PKAL visit www.pkal.org
More information about PKAL at the 2010 Annual meeting
The PKAL and AAC&U Partnership
In 2008, AAC&U and PKAL announced a partnership that will align and advance the work of both organizations to help foster meaningful liberal education experiences in the 21st century for all students and across all disciplines.
For nearly a century, AAC&U has been a leader, a catalyst and a facilitator in building and sustaining the collective commitment to liberal education at both the national and local levels. By helping to forge links among presidents, administrators, and faculty members, AAC&U has helped individual institutions keep the quality of student learning at the core of their respective missions while still evolving to meet new economic and social challenges. In this same spirit, PKAL has been a leading advocate for building and sustaining strong integrative undergraduate programs in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). With current support from the National Science Foundation and others, PKAL has been working with a team of leadership campuses to develop and implement learning outcomes in STEM disciplines.
Together, AAC&U and PKAL will be coordinating PKAL’s work on STEM learning outcomes with AAC&U’s work on learning outcomes across the undergraduate curriculum. The joining of these two mutually reinforcing emphases on students and faculty will strengthen and advance cohesive learning experiences for undergraduate students and for building a national dialogue around expectations for student learning across institutions of higher education. AAC&U and PKAL are also working together to develop faculty leadership, including cross-disciplinary leadership at the departmental level in STEM fields.
PKAL News
-Association of American Colleges and Universities Announces Dr. Susan Elrod as New Director of Project Kaleidoscope (September 2009)
-Project Kaleidoscope and the Association of American Colleges and Universities Announce New Partnership to Improve Undergraduate Science Achievement for All Students (November 2008)
Project Kaleidoscope
Susan Elrod, Executive Director
elrod@aacu.org
(202) 387-3760 ext 804
Kathryn Angeles, Program Assistant
angeles@aacu.org
(202) 387-3760 ext 413
Jeanne Narum, Senior Scholar
jlnarum@ico-dc.com
(202) 232-1300
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