Structuring tenure-track science education faculty positions in CSU science departments

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James A. Rudd II, jrudd@calstatela.edu, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032, S. D. Bush, bush@marshall.edu, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 1 Grand Ave, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, N. J. Pelaez, npelaez@purdue.edu, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, 915 W. State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, M. T. Stevens, mstevens@biology.csustan.edu, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Stanislaus, One University Circle, Turlock, CA 95382, K. S. Williams, kwilliam@sunstroke.sdsu.edu, Biology Department, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182, and K. D. Tanner, kdtanner@sfsu.edu, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132.
The California State University (CSU) system, the largest university in the country serving more than 400,000 students on 23 campuses, has been making a push to hire faculty members with training as a scientist and as a specialist in science education. These science education specialists are being hired into science departments, but campuses have had difficulty with structuring the positions, finding candidates that match advertised qualifications, and retaining such hires. Recently, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) held a Workshop for Discipline-based Science Education Research, and the CSU held a System-wide Colloquium on Science Education, both of which raised issues regarding such faculty positions, and the issues appear to be similar across scientific disciplines. A collaborative team of tenure-track CSU faculty holding such science education positions has investigated factors leading to more or less successful positions.
 

Faculty Development in Chemical Education
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The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008