Quality
Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
Follow-up
Proposal 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
Saturday,
October 22, 2011
AGENDA
Workshop Purpose: To discuss next steps with HBCUs that
attended the FY 2011 QEM HBCU-UP Proposal Development Workshop and submitted a
proposal in the FY 2011 HBCU-UP competition.
AM
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8:15
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Registration and Buffet Breakfast
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Scott Room
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8:45
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Welcome, Introductions, and Review of Purpose and
Agenda
Shirley
McBay, President, QEM Network
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9:00
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Meaning of the Intellectual Merit Review
Criterion
Discussion by Participants of the
Intellectual Merit of Their Proposals
Facilitator: Costello Brown, Former Dean of Graduate Studies and Research and
Professor
of Chemistry (retired)
California
State University-Los Angeles, and QEM Consultant
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9:45
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Meaning of the Broader Impacts Merit Review
Criterion
Discussion by Participants of the Broader
Impacts of Their Proposals
Facilitator:
Arturo Bronson, Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas
at El Paso, and QEM Consultant
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10:15
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Break
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Scott Room
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10:30
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Three
Concurrent Sessions
(One-on-one Institutional Sessions with QEM Consultants
Discussion of Reviewer Comments and Key
Proposal Components:
Project Rationale, Goals, Objectives,
Strategies, and Performance Indicators
Session
I: Fitzgerald Bramwell, Associate Provost for Research, Howard
University,
and QEM
Consultant
Session
II: Costello Brown, QEM Consultant
Session
III: Arturo Bronson, QEM Consultant
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Scott Room
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Noon/PM
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12:00
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Buffet Lunch with Participants in Two-day
Proposal Development Workshop
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Scott Room
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1:00
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Joint
Plenary Session
Project Assessment and Evaluation Plans
Costello
Brown, QEM Consultant
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Scott Room
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1:45
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Break
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2:00
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Three
Concurrent Sessions
(One-on-one Institutional Sessions with same QEM Consultants)
Discussion of Next Steps
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Scott Room
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3:00
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Adjournment
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