Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

Outreach Meeting to Provide Feedback to the

National Science Foundation’s Science Resources Statistics (SRS) Division on

the Impact of the Suppression of Small Data Cells in the

Survey of Earned Doctorates Reports

Mathematical Association of America

1529 18^th Street, NW, Washington, DC

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

AGENDA

AM

8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 Introductions and Review of Meeting’s Purpose

Shirley McBay, President, Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

9:15 NSF Overview of SRS and Discussion of Background Information on Issues

Regarding the Presentation of Data from the

SRS Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED)

Lynda Carlson, Division Director, and Mark Fiegener, SED Survey Manager    (.pdf)

Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS)

Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE)

National Science Foundation (NSF)

10:45 Break

11:00 Individual Institutions Discuss the Following Topics:

-Data Needs of the Institution Regarding SED

-How SED Data are Used by the Institution

-Comments on the Impact of the Suppression of Small Data Cells

-Recommendations Regarding the Format of Future SED Data Tables

Facilitator: Donna Nelson, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry

University of Oklahoma, and QEM Consultant

PM

12:30 Working Lunch - Continuation of Institutional Discussions

Facilitator: Donna Nelson, QEM Consultant

1:30 Group Discussion of Pros and Cons of

Recommendations Offered and Next Steps

Facilitator: Shirley McBay, QEM Network

2:00 Adjournment