Project Kaleidoscope and Undergraduate Chemistry Reform

Abstract

Project Kaleidoscope was founded in 1989 as a national alliance whose purpose is to strengthen undergraduate science and mathematics education. Its programs are designed to accomplish this, first, by finding efforts to reform undergraduate science and mathematics programs and second, by bringing those efforts to the attention of the larger education community. Through workshops, Project Kaleidoscope helps team members from institutions interested in attempting changes in their undergraduate curricula to explore ways of adapting successful efforts to their particular local needs. This article describes those workshops and briefly discusses a new Project Kaleidoscope initiative that brings together future science education leaders.