Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

Targeted Infusion and Education Research Workshop for the

National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP)

Four Points by Sheraton Hotel at BWI Airport

7032 Elm Road ¥ Baltimore, MD ¥ 410/859-3300

October 31 - November 1, 2008

 

WORKSHOP PURPOSE

To assist participating institutions in further developing their ideas for targeted infusion and education research proposals to the National Science Foundation (NSF)Õs Historically Black Colleges and Universities-Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP). NSF staff, Project consultants and QEM staff will provide information and offer advice on ways institutional teams, prior to the FY 2009 Program deadline, might further develop ideas contained in project summaries they bring to the workshop.

 

AGENDA

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31

 

AM

  8:30        Registration and Continental Breakfast                                                                      Chesapeake Foyer

 

  9:00        Opening Plenary Session                                                                                      Chesapeake Ballroom

    Welcome, Introductions, Review of Workshop Goal,
   Meeting Packet, and Agenda

                         Shirley McBay, President, QEM Network

 

  9:15        Review of HBCU-UP Program Goals and Guidelines for Targeted Infusion (TI)

and Education Research (ER) Proposals

    Strengths and Weaknesses in Funded/Non-funded TI and ER Proposals

Marilyn Suiter, Program Director     

Claudia Rankins, Program Director, HBCU-UP

Human Resources Development Division (HRD)

Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), NSF

 

  9:45        Review of NSFÕs Merit Review Criteria and Process

                         Costello Brown, Former Division Director, EHR, NSF

                         Former Dean of Graduate Studies and Research

                         California State University-Los Angeles, and QEM Consultant

 

10:15        Coffee Break                                                                                                           Chesapeake Foyer

 

10:30        Presentations by TI and ER Grantees                                                                 Chesapeake Ballroom

                   TI Grant: ÒTargeted Infusion to Attract Minorities to STEM by using an Accredited

                                       Forensic Biology Major: an Interdisciplinary ApproachÓ

                           Leonard Davis, Principal Investigator

                           Delaware State University

                   ER Grant: ÒWhat Works in Producing African-American Science and Math

           Teachers at Historically Black Colleges and UniversitiesÓ

                             Kimberley Freeman, Principal Investigator (PI), Howard University

 

11:30       Concurrent Sessions for TI and ER Proposals:

  TI Proposals                                                                                                                Potomac Room

           Discussion Leaders:

           Costello Brown, QEM Consultant, and Jerry Bramwell, Professor of Chemistry,

                   University of Kentucky, and QEM Consultant

Focus: Key Ideas from Project Summaries

 

      ER Proposals                                                                                                                    Scott Room

               Discussion Leaders:

               Olatokunbo (Toks) Fashola, Adjunct Research Scientist and Faculty Associate,

        Johns Hopkins University, and QEM Consultant, and

   Monica Mitchell, Associate, QEM Network

                              Focus: Key Ideas from Project Summaries

 

PM

12:30        Lunch                                                                                                                Chesapeake Ballroom

 

  1:30        Concurrent Sessions II for TI and ER Proposals:

                   (Same Locations and Session Leaders as Concurrent Sessions I)

 

Focus: Detailed Discussion of Individual Institutional Project Summaries

 

  3:30        Refreshment Break                                                                                                 Chesapeake Foyer

 

  3:45        Plenary Session - Budget Preparation and Justification                                   Chesapeake Ballroom

                              Jerry Bramwell, QEM Consultant

 

  4:15        Concurrent Sessions II continued

                              Focus: Budget Preparation and Justification

 

  5:30 –     Reception and Dinner                                                                                                        Crane BC

  7:00

                   Overnight Assignment: Revision of Project Summaries

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1

 

AM

  8:30        Continental Breakfast                                                                                                 Chesapeake Foyer

 

  9:00        Concurrent Sessions III:                                                                                        Chesapeake Ballroom

                   (Same Locations and Session Leaders as Concurrent Sessions I and II)

 

               Focus: Discussion of Revised Project Summaries

 

10:15        Refreshment Break                                                                                                     Chesapeake Foyer

 

10:30        Concurrent Sessions III continued

 

11:30        Plenary Session - Presentations by TI and ER Grantees                                        Chesapeake Ballroom

                   TI Grant: ÒTargeted Infusion to Add an Associate of Science DegreeÓ

Aaronita Belton, Principal Investigator, Clinton Junior College

                   ER Grant: ÒAssessing the Impact of a University/Community Coalition on the

                                        Mathematics Performance of Minority StudentsÓ

Oliver Hill, Principal Investigator, Virginia State University

 

PM

12:30        Lunch                                                                                                                      Chesapeake Ballroom

 

  1:30        Plenary Session - Assessment and Evaluation                                                           Chesapeake Ballroom

                        Olatokunbo (Toks) Fashola, QEM Consultant

 

  2:30        Break                                                                                                                            Chesapeake Foyer

 

  2:45        Summary Comments by Consultants and QEM Project Staff                                    Chesapeake Ballroom

 

  3:00        Use of NSFÕs FastLane for Submitting Proposals/Required Reports

                          Evelyn Baisey-Thomas, Computer and Information Specialist (Retired)

                             Office of Information and Resource Management, NSF, and

                             QEM Consultant

 

  5:00        Adjournment