This discussion advocates for an International Center to enhance first-year chemistry education, indicating a crucial shift in educational priorities.
In Western countries, postsecondary-level chemical education may be at the midlife crisis stage. Chemical educators have been part of many departments for some time, yet many of these specialists are at the margins rather than in the mainstream of their departments’ sense of purpose. The time is at hand for a re-evaluation of the chemical educator in chemistry departments. The time is also at hand for chemical educators to actively advocate on behalf of the professional advancement of our practitioners. We discuss the nascent International Center for First-Year Undergraduate Chemistry as one possible place for this advocacy.
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Kelter et al. (2004) studied this question.