title: Higher Education and the Society for Neuroscience: a website proposal that helped catalyze a change in policy.
abstract: In the spring of 2007, the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) did not include support for higher education as a priority in its strategic plan. By the spring of 2009, its priorities had changed. One catalyst for that change was a proposal for a website that would list, review, and rate resources for teaching neuroscience at the graduate and undergraduate level. The proposal was sent to and accepted by SfN Council in August 2008; by spring 2009, SfN had taken initial steps to implement it. Two documents are presented here that mark the change in policy: the website proposal, and SfN Council's response.
authors.affiliation: Program in Neuroscience and Department of Biological Sciences, Clark Science Center, Smith College, Northampton MA 01063, and Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138.
authors.forename: Richard F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Olivo
keywords: NSDL; Society for Neuroscience; higher education; resources for teaching; web portal; website