Expanding Collaborations between the Neuroscience Training Committee of the Society for Neuroscience and the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience.

At the FUN workshop at Dominican University in July 2017, we presented a session on activities of the Neuroscience Training Committee (NTC) of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). We focused on activities that pertain to undergraduate neuroscience education and how NTC could help the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN) achieve its goals and objectives in the coming years. We outlined a brief history of how FUN became involved with the Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs, one of the parent organizations from which the current NTC evolved. We provided examples of the efforts that the NTC is making to include more activities that support undergraduate neuroscience education, including providing support for FUN workshops and its accompanying special issue in the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education (JUNE). In addition, we solicited feedback from the participants at this session for ideas for how the NTC could better serve members of FUN. This discussion yielded questions about the value of Institutional Program (IP) memberships for undergraduate institutions and suggestions, such as reduced membership fees and discounts for abstracts, and/or registration attendance at the annual SfN conference for individuals at colleges or universities with IP membership. Other suggestions included providing short courses in undergraduate pedagogy (including program and curriculum development), sponsorships for developing new assessment tools or innovative curricula, and providing more support for JUNE. We concluded our session by encouraging FUN members to become active in NTC programs and to seek membership to the NTC and other SfN committees to ensure that the voice of undergraduate neuroscience education will continue to be heard.