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Initiative

Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL)

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.

PKAL Mission Statement

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.

PKAL Vision

Project Kaleidoscope will lead the nation in catalyzing the reform of undergraduate STEM teaching and accelerate the widespread uptake and adoption thereof.

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    Transforming STEM Higher Education Conference
    Transforming STEM Higher Education Conference

    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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  • PKAL STEM Leadership Institute
    PKAL STEM Leadership Institute

    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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  • Regional Networks
    Regional Networks

    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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