Jeanne L. Narum
Principal
Learning Spaces Collaboratory (Founding Director, Project Kaleidoscope)
Background
As founding principal of the Learning Spaces Collaboratory (LSC), since 2010 Jeanne Narum’s professional focus is on promoting best practices in visioning, planning, and assessing physical spaces serving 21st-century undergraduate learners and learning communities. Her leadership within the LSC reflects more than two decades engaging with academics and architects involved in integrated planning of the undergraduate learning environment—physical, intellectual, and social.
From 1989 – 2010, Narum was Director of Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL), an NSF-funded initiative to catalyze the transformation of undergraduate STEM learning environments. This was a unique opportunity to collaborate with leading agents of change from STEM disciplinary communities and from individual campuses, as well as with creative design professionals, to develop and disseminate resources that inform planning of formal and informal spaces for 21st century STEM learners.
From 2003 – 2009, with support from NITLE, Narum facilitated workshops focusing on planning technology-enhanced spaces, including information commons and classrooms. She has had leadership responsibility for over 100 PKAL/LSC facilities-related activities designed to advance awareness of how space matters to learning and of planning strategies to realize that spaces matter for a particular community.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
PUBLISHED WORKS (SELECTED)
- Learning Spaces Collaboratory Guide (2013): Planning for Assessing 21st Century Spaces for 21st Century Learners
- Narum, Jeanne L. (Ed.). Learning Spaces Collaboratory website
- Narum, Jeanne L. “The Theory and Practice of Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education: Reflections from the PKAL Experience.” AAC&U Liberal Education. Winter 2013, Vol. 99, No. 1.
- Narum, Jeanne and Manduca, Cathy (2012) Workshops and Networks in Brainbridge, William Sims, editor, Leadership in Science and Technology, A Reference Handbook. ISBN 978-1-4129-7688-6 p. 443-451
- Narum, Jeanne L. “Transforming Undergraduate Programs in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Looking Back and Looking Ahead.” AAC&U Liberal Education. Spring 2008, Vol. 94, No. 2. Pp. 12 – 19.
- Narum, Jeanne L. (Ed.). Project Kaleidoscope Report on Reports II: Recommendations for Urgent Action: Transforming America’s Scientific and Technological Infrastructure. 2006.
- Narum, Jeanne L. “Science Spaces for Students of the 21st Century.” Change Magazine. September/October 2004. Pp. 8 – 21.
- Narum, Jeanne L. (Ed.). Project Kaleidoscope Volume IV: What Works, What Matters, What Lasts. 2004.
- Narum, Jeanne L. (Ed.). Leadership: Investing in the Future: Building Institutional Leadership for Natural Science Communities. 2004-2006.
- Narum, Jeanne L. (Ed.). Project Kaleidoscope Report on Reports I: Recommendations for Action in Support of Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. 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.
- Narum, Jeanne L. (Ed.). Information Technology Roundtable Occasional Paper: The PKAL 2001 Roundtable on the Future– Information Technology.
- Narum, Jeanne L. (Ed.). Investing in Faculty: A Report on Project Kaleidoscope. 2000 – 2001.
- Rothman, Frank G., Jeanne L. Narum; Then, Now, and in the Next Decade: A Commentary on Strengthening Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education; 1999.
- Narum, Jeanne L. (Ed.). Shaping the Future of Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education: Proceedings and Recommendations from the Day of Dialogue. 1998.
- Narum, Jeanne L. “A Better Home for Undergraduate Science.” Issues in Science and Technology 13, no. 1 (Fall 1996).
- Narum, Jeanne L. (Ed.). Project Kaleidoscope Volume III: Structures for Science: A Handbook for Planning Facilities for Undergraduate Natural Science Communities. 1995.
- Narum, Jeanne L. (Ed.). Project Kaleidoscope Volume I What Works: Building Natural Science Communities. 1991.
PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED)
- Promising Practices in Undergraduate STEM Education – National Academy of Sciences, June 30, 2008