Dreamcatcher Website

The NSF-sponsored Dreamcatcher Conference will bring together educators from the University of California Davis (UC Davis), regional California Community Colleges (CCC’s), and regional California State Universities (CSU’s) in a joint effort to explore how to encourage biology transfer student success in this new era of biology.

January 26 - 27, 2018 | UC Davis Conference Center

Registration is FREE!

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Registration is limited and will close on December 15, 2017

The specific objectives of the meeting are:

1. To establish more effective lines of communication among instructors and academic advisors from CCC, CSU, and UC about their shared vision and expectations for transfer students in biology

2. To gather information needed to determine if a disarticulation in biology curriculum and prerequisites exists between CCC, CSU, and UC

3. To engage in conversations that build awareness of biology curriculum alignment between CCC, CSU, and UC, and initiate efforts towards better supporting a successful learning progression for transfer students

4. To discuss the disadvantages transfer students experience relative to the freshman-start cohort students when entering the upper-division curriculum

5. To discuss how the rapidly changing pace of research and technology in the biological sciences is impacting curricula and requirements at UC, CSU, and CCC

6. To discuss instructional interventions and new teaching methods that could break the “sink or swim” instructional model that has aggravated transfer students for decades.

The Dreamcatcher Conference is generously sponsored by:

Conference Steering Committee:

Marina Crowder (UC Davis)
Raymond Rodriguez (UC Davis)
Susan Keen (UC Davis)
Jeff Schinske (Foothill College)
Briana McCarthy (Los Medanos College)
Alexis Ackerman (Sacramento City College)
Renee Shahrok (American River College)
Stephanie Touchman (Woodland Community College)
Michael Sweet (American River College)

The National Science Foundation, Award #1734336

For any questions, please contact the meeting organizers at mecrowder@ucdavis.edu

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