Quality Education for Minorities
(QEM) Network
Planning and Multi-year Proposal
Development Workshop for the
National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Historically Black
Colleges and Universities
Undergraduate
Program (HBCU-UP)
The Residence Inn Capitol by Marriott
333 E
Street, SW, Washington, DC 20024 ¥ 202/484-8280
October 19-20, 2007
To assist participating
institutions in further developing their ideas for planning and multi-year
proposals to the National Science Foundation (NSF)Õs Historically Black
Colleges and Universities-Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) prior to the FY 2008 Program
deadline.
AGENDA
8:00 Registration Outside Senate Room
8:30 Opening Plenary Session Senate Room
Welcome, Introductions, Review of
Workshop Goal, Meeting Packet, and Agenda
Shirley
McBay, President, QEM Network
8:45 Review of HBCU-UP Program Goals
and Guidelines
Strengths
and Weaknesses in Funded/Non-funded HBCU-UP Proposals
Caesar
Jackson, Program Director, HBCU-UP, NSF
9:15 New HBCU-UP Project
Opportunities
Marilyn
Suiter, Program Director for
Special Activities, NSF
9:45 Review of NSFÕs Merit
Review Criteria and Process
William
Sibley, Former NSF Division Director, and QEM Consultant
10:15 Coffee
Break
10:30 Concurrent
Sessions I:
MULTI-YEAR PROPOSAL TRACK
(First-time Multi-year)
Senate Room
Focus: Faculty Development Goals and Proposed
Strategies
from Project Summaries
Costello
Brown, Former NSF Division Director, and QEM Consultant
MULTI-YEAR PROPOSAL TRACK
(Second-time Multi-year)
Suite 1317
Focus:
Accomplishments and Challenges from First Multi-year Grant
William
Sibley, QEM Consultant
Shirley
McBay, QEM Network
PLANNING PROPOSAL TRACK Dining
Lounge Area
Focus: Brief Presentations of
Project Summaries
Arturo
Bronson, Professor, University of Texas at El Paso
Former NSF Program
Director, and QEM Consultant
J.
Arthur Jones, Senior Associate, QEM Network
11:30 Institutional
Teams Discuss Implications of Morning Discussion for their Proposals
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Concurrent Sessions II: (Same Locations, Groupings of
Institutions, and
Session Leaders as Concurrent Sessions
I)
MULTI-YEAR PROPOSAL TRACK
(First-time Multi-year Proposals)
Focus: Curriculum
Development, Student Support Goals, and Proposed Strategies
from Project Summaries
MULTI-YEAR PROPOSAL TRACK
(Second-time Multi-year Proposals)
Focus: Brief Presentations of
Project Summaries
PLANNING PROPOSAL TRACK
Focus: -Ways to Assess
Institutional Needs and Establish Baselines,
Benchmarks, and Indicators of Progress
-Building Evaluation into Planning
Proposals
3:00 Institutional Teams Discuss
Implications of Session II for their Proposed Projects
3:30 Refreshment Break
3:45 Concurrent Sessions III: (Same Locations, Groupings of
Institutions, and
Session
Leaders as Concurrent Sessions I and II)
MULTI-YEAR PROPOSAL TRACK
(First-time Multi-year Proposals)
Focus: Project Management,
Timeline, and Budget
MULTI-YEAR PROPOSAL TRACK
(Second-time Multi-year Proposals)
Focus: Discussion of
"Value-Added" by the Proposed Projects
PLANNING PROPOSAL TRACK
Focus: Ways to Strengthen
Proposed Planning Projects
5:00 Institutional Teams Discuss
Implications of Session III for their Proposed Projects
6:00 Dinner
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20
8:30 Concurrent Sessions IV:
MULTI-YEAR PROPOSAL TRACK
(First-time Multi-year Proposals) and
PLANNING PROPOSAL TRACK Senate
Room
Focus: How to Use NSFÕs FastLane
for Proposal
Submissions and Reviews
and for Submission of Project Progress and Financial Reports
Evelyn Baisey-Thomas, Computer
Specialist
Division of Information Systems
Office of Information
and Resource Management, NSF
MULTI-YEAR PROPOSAL TRACK
(Second-time Multi-year)
Suite 1317
Focus:
Potential Collaborations/Partnerships with Other Institutions
10:45 Refreshment
Break
11:00 Plenary
Session
Senate Room
Multi-year Grantees Share Their
HBCU-UP Experiences:
What Worked Well? What DidnÕt
Work Well? Lessons Learned?
PM
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Plenary
Session: Assessment
and Evaluation
Senate Room
Carole Morning, Director, Higher
Education Extension Services
2:30 Break
2:45 Institutional Teams Discuss
Implications of Session IV and the Plenary
Discussions for their Proposed
Projects
3:30 Plenary Session
Senate Room
Project Reports and the Self
Evaluation Indicator System (SEIS)
Costello
Brown, QEM Consultant
4:00 Profiles of FY 2006 and FY
2007 HBCU-UP-funded
Targeted Infusion and Education
Research Awards
J.
Arthur Jones, QEM Network
4:30 Summary Comments by
Consultants and QEM Project Staff
-Observations and Recommendations by
Participants
-Next Steps
5:00 Adjournment