QUALITY
EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES (QEM) NETWORK
National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation
through Institutional Integration (I3) Effort
Regional Outreach Workshop for Minority-serving
Institutions
Residence Inn Capitol ¥
333 E Street, SW ¥ Washington, DC
September
26–27, 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, September 26
AM
8:30 Registration
and Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcome,
Purpose, and Introduction of Institutional Teams
Shirley McBay, President, QEM Network
9:30 Keys
to Innovation: Creativity, Connectivity, Integration, and Synergy
Overview
of the I3 Effort
Wanda
E. Ward, Deputy Assistant Director
Directorate for Education & Human Resources (EHR)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
10:15 Break
10:30 Merit
Review Criteria and Special I3 Review Criteria
Diane Spresser, Consultant
Office of the Assistant Director (OAD), EHR, NSF
á
Intellectual Merit
á
Broader Impact
á
Institutional
Integration Goals
á
Degree of Integration
á
Programming, policies,
and practices that sustain
institutional changes needed for ongoing synergy
11:15 Strengths
and Weaknesses of Funded/Unfunded I3 Proposals
Diane Spresser, 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 Expectations
for I3 Proposals
Session Leaders:
Diane Spresser, OAD/EHR, NSF
Bernice
Anderson, Senior Advisor, OAD/EHR, NSF
Implementation
Project Proposals
á
Vision and anticipated outcomes
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Plan for achieving outcomes
á
Management plan and timeline
á
Evaluation plan that addresses effectiveness of
strategies
á
Process for collection and analysis of relevant student
data
Research
Project Proposals
á
Brief review of literature that informs proposed
research
á
Methodology and alignment with strategic research
questions
á
Articulation of logic among research questions,
methods,
analyses, inferences, and evidence
Project
Evaluation
2:00 Discussion
by Institutional Teams of Potential Integration of
their
Active STEM Projects
Facilitator: Fitzgerald Bramwell, Professor, Department of
Chemistry
University of
Kentucky, and QEM Consultant
3:30 Break
3:45 Continuation
of Discussion by Institutional Teams of Potential
Integration
of their Active STEM Projects
Facilitator: Costello Brown, Former Dean of Graduate Studies and
Research and (Retired) Professor of Chemistry
California State University-Los Angeles,
and QEM Consultant
5:15 Budget
Preparation – Things to Consider
Fitzgerald
Bramwell, QEM Consultant
6:00 Adjournment - Dinner (on your own)
Overnight
Assignment: Institutional teams meet to refine their ideas for updates on
Day Two
Saturday, September 27
AM
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Specific
Examples of I3 Linkages (from FY 2008 Awards)
Althea
Burns, Associate and Conference Coordinator, QEM Network
J.
Arthur Jones, Senior Associate, QEM Network
9:30 Updates
by Institutional Teams on Potential Integration of STEM Projects
Facilitator: Costello Brown, QEM Consultant
10:30 Break
10:45 Continuation
of Updates by Institutional Teams on
Potential
Integration of STEM Projects
Facilitator:
Fitzgerald Bramwell, 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