Dunbar Gary L, Symonds Laura
Program in Neuroscience, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859.
Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI 48824-1101.
J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2018 Sep 15;16(3):A273-A276. eCollection 2018 Summer.
At the FUN workshop at Dominican University in July 2017, we presented a session on activities of the Neuroscience Training Committee (NTC) of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). We focused on activities that pertain to undergraduate neuroscience education and how NTC could help the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN) achieve its goals and objectives in the coming years. We outlined a brief history of how FUN became involved with the Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs, one of the parent organizations from which the current NTC evolved. We provided examples of the efforts that the NTC is making to include more activities that support undergraduate neuroscience education, including providing support for FUN workshops and its accompanying special issue in the . In addition, we solicited feedback from the participants at this session for ideas for how the NTC could better serve members of FUN. This discussion yielded questions about the value of Institutional Program (IP) memberships for undergraduate institutions and suggestions, such as reduced membership fees and discounts for abstracts, and/or registration attendance at the annual SfN conference for individuals at colleges or universities with IP membership. Other suggestions included providing short courses in undergraduate pedagogy (including program and curriculum development), sponsorships for developing new assessment tools or innovative curricula, and providing more support for . We concluded our session by encouraging FUN members to become active in NTC programs and to seek membership to the NTC and other SfN committees to ensure that the voice of undergraduate neuroscience education will continue to be heard.
在2017年7月于多米尼加大学举办的神经科学本科教育者联盟（FUN）研讨会上，我们介绍了神经科学学会（SfN）神经科学培训委员会（NTC）的活动。我们重点关注了与本科神经科学教育相关的活动，以及NTC如何在未来几年帮助本科神经科学教育者联盟（FUN）实现其目标。我们简要概述了FUN如何与神经科学系和项目协会建立联系的历史，NTC正是从该协会这一母体组织演变而来。我们列举了NTC为纳入更多支持本科神经科学教育的活动所做的努力，包括为FUN研讨会及其在《[期刊名称]》上的特刊提供支持。此外，我们征求了本次研讨会参与者对于NTC如何更好地服务FUN成员的意见。这次讨论产生了关于本科院校机构项目（IP）会员资格价值的问题，以及一些建议，比如降低会员费、提供摘要折扣，和/或为拥有IP会员资格的高校个人参加SfN年会提供注册优惠。其他建议包括提供本科教学法短期课程（包括项目和课程开发）、赞助开发新的评估工具或创新课程，以及为[相关内容]提供更多支持。我们在研讨会结束时鼓励FUN成员积极参与NTC项目，并申请加入NTC及SfN的其他委员会，以确保本科神经科学教育的声音能够持续被倾听。
