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Attracting and Retaining Majors
Pew Spring Conference

Keynote Speaker: Elaine Seymour, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder

March 7-9, 2003
DoubleTree Guest Suites O'Hare North
Glenview, IL

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Final Report

We are pleased to have Dr. Elaine Seymour as our keynote speaker for the Pew Midstates Science and Mathematics Consortium conference on Attracting and Retaining Majors. Dr. Seymour is the co-author of the book, Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences. She will discuss her findings presented in the book and also talk about what she has found since that time. Dr. Seymour is the director of Ethnography and Evaluation Research at the Center for the Advancement of Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences. She is currently involved in a study to establish the nature and impact of effective undergraduate research experiences.

In addition to Dr. Seymour's talks, we have presentations from eleven of the Pew institutions. Topics include changes in pedagogy and curriculum as well as opportunities and strategies that go beyond the classroom. Titles for each of the presentations are found in the schedule below.

In addition to the talks, we are inviting participants to bring a poster describing strategies used to attract and retain majors. Posters will be put up in the break area on Friday night and taken down on Saturday evening.

Friday, March 7
4:00 to 6:00 Registration

7:00 to 8:30 DINNER and Elaine Seymour
The Students' Critique of College Science Pedagogy and Innovators'
Discoveries About How Students Learn.

Saturday, March 8
8:30 to 9:20 Doug Arion, Carthage College
ScienceWorks: The Entrepreneurial Studies in Natural Science Program

9:25 to 10:15 Elaine Marzluff, Grinnell College
Welcoming the Underrepresented into the Scientific Community: Grinnell's New Science Project

10:15 to 10:45 BREAK

10:45 to 11:35 Stuart Allison, Knox College
Using a Field Station to Enhance Science Education: Lessons from Green Oaks

11:40 to 12:30 Matt Richey and Paul Zorn
Building a Major: It's More than the Discipline

12:40 to 2:00 LUNCH and Elaine Seymour
Student Gains and Discomforts in Doing Real Science: The Contribution of
Authentic Research Experiences.

2:10 to 3:00 Ken Yasukawa and Laura Parmentier, Beloit College
Active learning in introductory and intermediate biology and chemistry
courses.

3:05 to 3:55 Karen Nordell, Lawrence University
Engaging Students in Science Using Topics in Nanotechnology

4:00 to 4:50 David Bressoud and Danny Kaplan, Macalester College
Mathematics in the Community of Sciences

5:00 to 6:30 COCKTAIL HOUR and posters

Sunday, March 9
9:00 to 9:50 Jose Quintans, University of Chicago
Bio Labs for the 21st Century

9:55 to 10:45 Regina Stevens-Truss and Joan M. Esson, Kalamazoo College
Incorporating Service Learning Into the Major

10:50 to 11:40 Jim Gentile, Hope College
An Integration of Program and Space in Science at Hope College

11:40 to 12:00 Evaluation and Closing Comments

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