Jeanne L. Narum
Founding Director; Senior Fellow | Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL)
Education
St. Olaf College, Bachelor of Music
Expertise
PKAL is one of the leading advocates in the U.S. for "what works" in building and sustaining strong undergraduate programs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). PKAL is an informal alliance taking responsibility for shaping learning environments that attract undergraduate students to STEM fields, inspiring them to persist and succeed by giving them personal experience with the joy of discovery and an awareness of the influence of science and technology in their world.
Affiliations
Narum is also director of the Independent Colleges Office in Washington, D.C., an organization that provides services directed toward assisting member institutions to be competitive in the search for grants from federal agencies for faculty and curriculum development and institutional renewal. In addition, she is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, a member of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering, and a consultant for the Willamette Valley Biological Education Network. She has also served in several academic positions and received numerous honors and awards in academia.
Publications
Narum, Jeanne L. (Ed.); Recommendations for Urgent Action: Transforming America’s Scientific and Technological Infrastructure- Project Kaleidoscope Report on Reports II 2006.
Narum, Jeanne L. (Ed.); Volume IV: What Works, What Matters, What Lasts – Project Kaleidoscope 2004. http://www.pkal.org/collections/VolumeIV.cfm
Narum, Jeanne L. (Ed.); Leadership: Investing in the Future: Building Institutional Leadership for Natural Science Communities, 2004-2006.
Narum, Jeanne L. (Ed.); Recommendations for Action in Support of Undergraduate Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics– Project Kaleidoscope Report on Reports 2002; pp. 32; 2002.
Narum, Jeanne L., Kate Conover (Eds.); Building Robust Learning Environments in Undergraduate STEM;San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. New Directions for Higher Education, #119, 2002.
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