More than 250 physicists organized into teams from physics departments across America gathered in Arlington, Virginia for a weekend of dialogue about the status and possible futures of the American undergraduate physics enterprise. This group represented more than 100 colleges and universities from all geographical regions and Carnegie classifications and account for about one-fifth of the undergraduate students taking a physics course in America. They represented physicists with a wide variety of research and teaching interests at all stages of their careers united by a conviction that strong undergraduate programs in physics are essential to the health of the physics community in the next century.

All indicators point to a very wide spread interest and enthusiasm for the topic of undergraduate physics revitalization and reform. Physics at the Crossroads, the report of the AAPT conference "Revitalizing Undergraduate Physics," held in September, 1996, sounded a call to arms for undergraduate physics education. The report outlined the problems facing the physics community and solutions that might result in improvements in undergraduate physics education.

Summary paper from the conference
Department Case Studies
Links of Interest to Conference Participants
      Slides from Dr. Edward Redish's Talk
      Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology

Co-Chairs: Robert Hilborn, Ruth Howes, James Stith
Steering Committee Members:
Robert Beichner, North Carolina State University
Don Burland, National Science Foundation
Robert C. Hilborn, Amherst College
Donald F. Holcomb, Cornell University
Ruth H. Howes, Ball State University
Leonard Jossem, Ohio State University
Barry M. Klein, University of California, Davis
Priscilla Laws, Dickison College
Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ramon Lopez, American Physical Society and the University of Maryland
John Lowell, Applied Materials, Austin, Texas
Mary Beth Monroe, Southwest Texas Junior College
Thomas O'Kuma, Lee College
James H. Stith, American Institute of Physics
Bernard V. Khoury, (ex officio) American Association of Physics Teachers