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
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
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
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
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