Initiative
Project Kaleidoscope is AAC&U’s center of STEM higher education reform dedicated to empowering STEM faculty, including those from underrepresented groups, to graduate more students in STEM fields who are competitively trained and liberally educated.
Since its founding in 1989, PKAL has been one of the leading advocates in the United States for transforming undergraduate STEM teaching and learning. It has to date empowered an extensive network of over 7,000 STEM faculty and administrators committed to the principles, practices, and partnerships that advance cutting-edge, integrative STEM higher education for all students. To that end, all PKAL undertakings are uniquely designed to foster quality, diversity, and social responsibility.
Project Kaleidoscope has as its mission to empower all US college and university STEM faculty — through a robust community of practice framework — to competitively train and liberally educate every STEM undergraduate.
Project Kaleidoscope will lead the nation in catalyzing the reform of undergraduate STEM teaching and accelerate the widespread uptake and adoption thereof.
The AAC&U Transforming STEM Higher Education Conference advances undergraduate STEM education reform by foregrounding STEM faculty's diverse perspectives, worldviews, voices, and desires—especially those from groups historically marginalized in STEM. This event provides a deeper understanding of classroom, institutional, and national levers of reform. It outlines a national agenda for manipulating those levers to drive discovery, innovation, and social change in STEM higher education.
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Forward-looking institutions recognize the value of cultivating leadership capacity among STEM faculty and administrators. To this end, the PKAL STEM Leadership Institute empowers STEM faculty, principal investigators, and administrators to recognize their leadership strengths, navigate the politics of change, address conflicts, and restructure the institutional systems that limit America’s capacity for global competitiveness in STEM fields. Through experiential learning, reflection, and the simulation of diverse lived experiences, participants gain the skills and tools to embrace difference, initiate social change, and guide reform in undergraduate STEM education.
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The PKAL Regional Networks, established in 2005 with generous support from the National Science Foundation, provide professional development opportunities for all STEM faculty that are highly effective, affordable, and sustainable.
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Institute\
Through experiential learning, reflection, and the simulation of diverse lived experiences, participants gain the skills and tools to embrace difference, initiate social change, and guide reform in STEM higher education.
PKAL Regional Network\
How Do We Do This Now? Solidarity, Innovation, and Leadership in a Changing STEM Landscape
PKAL Regional Network\
Teaching and Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities for Higher Education
PKAL Regional Network\
Promoting Pathways through STEM
Conference\
AAC&U and its Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) will bring together faculty, staff, and administrators to critically examine and explore some of the most pressing challenges in STEM higher education reform today.