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)

Four Points by Sheraton BWI Airport Hotel • 7032 Elm Road • Baltimore, MD 21240

November 20-21, 2009

AGENDA

Purpose: To assist participating institutions in further developing their ideas for planning, implementation, and ACE proposals to NSF’s HBCU-UP Program prior to the FY 2010 deadline.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20

AM

8:00            Registration and Continental Breakfast                                                               Crane A / Solarium

8:30            Welcome, Introductions, Review of Workshop Purpose,                                                        Crane A

                      Meeting Packet, and Agenda

                                  Shirley McBay, President, QEM Network

8:45            Overview of the National Science Foundation (NSF)

                       Overview of the HBCU-UP Program including Expectations of Planning,

                       Implementation, and Achieving Competitive Excellence Proposals

                       Strengths and Weaknesses in Funded/Non-funded HBCU-UP Proposals

Claudia Rankins, Program Director, HBCU-UP

Caesar Jackson, Program Director, HBCU-UP

                                             Division of Human Resource Development (HRD)

                                             Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), NSF

9:30            Questions and Answers

9:45            Review of NSF’s Merit Review Criteria and Process

Costello Brown, Senior Associate, QEM Network

10:15            Break           

10:30            Discussion of Logic Model

J. Arthur Jones, Senior Associate, QEM Network

11:00            Concurrent Session I: (See Assignment Sheet)

Focus: Brief Presentations of Project Summaries and Logic Models

Planning and First-Time Implementation Proposal Track                                            Potomac Room

                                  Josephine Davis, Professor

                                            Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

                                             Fort Valley State University, and QEM Consultant

                                  J. Arthur Jones, QEM Network

Second-Time Implementation Proposal Track Severn Room

                                  Art Bronson, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

                                             University of Texas at El Paso, and QEM Consultant

                                  Costello Brown, QEM Network

Second- and Third-Time Implementation Proposal Track Crane A

                                  Fitzgerald Bramwell, Professor, Department of Chemistry

                                            University of Kentucky, and QEM Consultant

                                  Shirley McBay, QEM Network

PM

12:15            Lunch                                                                                                                            Crane A

1:15            Plenary Session                                                                                                           Crane A

Multi-year Grantees Share Their HBCU-UP Experiences:

                       What Worked Well, What Didn’t Work Well, and Lessons Learned

Panelists:    

Bruce Crawford, Vice President, Instructional Services (videolink)

                                             Lawson State Community College

Connie Walton, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

                                             Grambling State University

                                  Arthur Grainger, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics

                                            Morgan State University

2:00            Concurrent Session II: (Same Locations, Assignments, and Session Leaders

                                                              as Concurrent Session I)

Focus: Project Goals, Objectives, Intellectual Merit, and Broader Impacts

                                  QEM Consultants and QEM Senior STEM Staff

3:15            Break           

3:30            Plenary Session: Project Management Plans      Crane A

Arturo Bronson, QEM Consultant

4:00            Plenary Session: Project Timelines and Budgets

Fitzgerald Bramwell, QEM Consultant

4:45            Concurrent Session III: (Same Locations, Assignments, and Session Leaders

                                                           as in earlier Concurrent Sessions)

Focus: Project Management, Timelines, and Budgets

                                  QEM Consultants and QEM Senior STEM Staff

6:00            Break

6:30            Working Dinner – Review of the Day’s Activities Crane B

Overnight Assignment: Institutional Teams are to revise their project

                                        summaries and their initial budgets

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21

AM

8:30            Breakfast Solarium

9:00            Concurrent Session IV:

Multi-Year Proposal Track Crane A

                       (One Team Member – Planning and First-time Implementation Proposals)

Focus: How to Use NSF’s FastLane for Submission of Proposals,

Annual Reports, and Financial Reports

Evelyn Baisey-Thomas, Computer and Information Specialist

                                             Office of Information and Resource Management, NSF (retired),

                                             and QEM Consultant

First-Time Proposal Track (One Team Member)                                                  Potomac Room

Second-Time Implementation Proposal Track    Severn Room

Second- and Third-Time Implementation Proposal Track Room 2101

Focus: Review of Revised Project Summaries and Initial Budgets

QEM Consultants

10:15            Break

10:30            Plenary Session                                                                                                           Crane A

                       Other HBCU-UP Funding Opportunities:

                       Targeted Infusion and Education Research Projects

Claudia Rankins, Program Director, HBCU-UP, EHR/NSF

11:15            Project Data Collection and Annual/Final Reports

J. Arthur Jones, QEM Network

NOON/PM

12:00            Joint Luncheon with Follow-up Workshop Participants Crane A

1:00            Joint Session: Project Assessment and Evaluation Plans Crane A

Josephine Davis, QEM Network

1:45            Summary Comments by Consultants and QEM Project Staff

                       - Observations and Recommendations by Participants

                       - Next Steps

Facilitator: Shirley McBay, QEM Network

2:30            Adjournment