QUALITY EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES (QEM) NETWORK

National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation through Institutional Integration (I³) Effort

Regional Outreach Workshop for Minority-serving Institutions

Marriott Nashville Airport Hotel • 600 Marriott Drive • Nashville, TN

October 3-4, 2008

AGENDA

Purpose: To ensure that minority-serving institutions are more aware of the I³ effort and to offer assistance in the development of their ideas for FY 2009 I³ proposals.

Friday, October 3 Salon A–B

AM

8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 Welcome, Purpose, and Introduction of Institutional Teams

Shirley McBay, President, QEM Network

9:15 -Keys to Innovation: Creativity, Connectivity, Integration, and Synergy

-Overview of the I³ Effort

-Merit Review Criteria and Special I³ Review Criteria

· Intellectual Merit

· Broader Impact

· Institutional Integration Goals

· Degree of Integration

· Programming, policies, and practices that sustain
institutional changes needed for ongoing synergy

Diane Spresser, Consultant

Office of the Assistant Director (OAD)

Directorate for Education & Human Resources (EHR)

National Science Foundation (NSF)

10:15 Break

10:30 -Strengths and Weaknesses of Funded/Unfunded I³ Proposals

-Expectations for I³ Proposals:

Implementation Project Proposals

· Vision and anticipated outcomes

· Plan for achieving outcomes

· Management plan and timeline

· Evaluation plan that addresses effectiveness of strategies

· Process for collection and analysis of relevant student data

Research Project Proposals

· Brief review of literature that informs proposed research

· Methodology and alignment with strategic research questions

• Articulation of logic among research questions, methods,
analyses, inferences, and evidence

Diane Spresser, Consultant

                        Office of the Assistant Director (OAD), EHR, NSF

NOON

12:00 Lunch

(Consultants/QEM staff meet with any teams previously
submitting I³ proposals that were not funded)

PM

1:00 Evaluation

Bernice Anderson, Senior Advisor for Evaluation, OAD/EHR, NSF

2:00 Discussion by Institutional Teams of Potential Integration of

Their Active STEM Projects

Facilitator: J. Arthur Jones, Senior Associate, QEM Network

3:30 Break

3:45 Continuation of Discussion by Institutional Teams of Potential Integration of

their Active STEM Projects

Facilitator:  Mildred Smalley, Faculty Emeritus, Chemistry,
Former Vice Chancellor for Research and Strategic Initiatives

Southern University at Baton Rouge, and QEM Consultant

5:15 Budget Preparation – Things to Consider

Costello Brown, Former Dean of Graduate Studies and

Research and (Retired) Professor of Chemistry

California State University-Los Angeles, and QEM Consultant

6:00 Adjournment - Dinner (on your own; hotel shuttle available to selected restaurants)

Overnight Assignment: Institutional teams prepare One-page Project Summary for

Presentation on Day Two

Saturday, October 4 Salon A–B

AM

8:30 Continental Breakfast

9:00 Integration of Education and Mentoring Programs at Louisiana State University (FY 2008 I³ Award)

Su-Seng Pang, Co-Principal Investigator

Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives and

Jack Holmes Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Louisiana State University

9:30 Updates by Institutional Teams on Potential Integration of STEM Projects

Facilitator:   J. Arthur Jones, QEM Network

10:30 Break

10:45 Continuation of Updates by Institutional Teams on

Potential Integration of STEM Projects

Facilitator:  Mildred Smalley, QEM Consultant

11:45 Project Evaluation Plan

Costello Brown, QEM Consultant

PM

12:15 Working Lunch: Discussion of Next Steps Institutional Teams Plan to Take

Facilitator:   Shirley McBay, QEM Network

2:00 Adjournment