Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
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
October 21-22, 2011
AGENDA
Purpose: To
assist participating institutions in further developing their ideas for proposals
they plan to
submit to NSF’s
HBCU-UP Program in FY 2012.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21
AM
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8:00
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Registration and Continental
Breakfast
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Chesapeake Foyer
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8:30
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Plenary Session Opening
Remarks and Presentations:
Welcome, Introductions, Review of Workshop
Purpose
Meeting
Packet, and Agenda
Shirley
McBay, President, QEM Network
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Chesapeake Ballroom
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8:45
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-Overview of the National Science Foundation (NSF)
-Overview
of the HBCU-UP Program
-Strengths
and Weaknesses in Funded/Non-funded HBCU-UP Proposals
Claudia Rankins, Program Director, HBCU-UP
Division
of Human Resource Development (HRD)
Directorate
for Education and Human Resources (EHR), NSF
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9:30
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Questions and Answers
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9:45
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Review of NSF’s Merit Review Criteria and Process
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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10:15
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Break
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10:30
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Discussion of a Logic Model
J.
Arthur Jones, Senior Associate, QEM Network
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11:00
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Concurrent Session I: (See Assignment Sheet)
Focus: Brief Presentations of Project
Summaries and Logic Models
Group A: Institutions
Preparing Broadening Participation Research Proposals
Shirley
McBay, QEM Network
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Severn Room
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Group
B: Institutions Preparing Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) or
Implementation
Awards
Fitzgerald Bramwell, Associate Provost for Research
Howard
University, and QEM Consultant
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Potomac Room
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Group
C: Institutions Preparing Targeted Infusion Proposals
Costello
Brown, QEM Consultant
J.
Arthur Jones, QEM Network
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Chesapeake Ballroom
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Group
D: Institutions Preparing Planning or Implementation Proposals
Arturo
Bronson, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas at El
Paso, and QEM Consultant
Althea
Burns, Associate and Conference Coordinator, QEM Network
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Room 2101, 2nd Floor
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PM
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12:15
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Working Lunch: Describing Goals and
Objectives in Competitive Proposals
Facilitator: Shirley
McBay, QEM Network
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Chesapeake Ballroom
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1:15
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Plenary Session
Panel:
Multi-year Grantees Share Their HBCU-UP Experiences:
What Worked Well and What Didn’t Work
Well
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Chesapeake Ballroom
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Panelists:
Melissa
Harrington, Associate Professor of Biology Delaware State University
Oliver
Hill, Professor of Psychology. Virginia State University
Panel
Moderator: Althea Burns, QEM Network
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2:00
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Concurrent Session II: (Same locations,
assignments, and session leaders as
Concurrent Session I)
Focus: Project Goals, Objectives, Intellectual Merit, and Broader Impacts
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3:15
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Break
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3:30
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Plenary Session
Presentations:
Project
Management Plans
Costello
Brown, QEM Consultant
Project Timelines
Arturo
Bronson, QEM Consultant
Project Budgets
Fitzgerald Bramwell, QEM Consultant
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Chesapeake Ballroom
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4:45
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Concurrent Session III: (Same locations,
assignments, and session leaders
as in earlier Concurrent Sessions)
Focus: Project Management, Timelines, and
Budgets
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6:00
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Break
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6:30
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Working Dinner - Review of the Day’s
Activities
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Scott Room
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Overnight Assignment: Institutional Teams are
to revise their project summaries, logic models, and initial budgets, as
needed
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SATURDAY,
OCTOBER 22
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AM
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8:15
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Buffet Breakfast
Institutional
Teams turn in printed project summaries
and logic models to QEM
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Scott Room
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9:00
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Concurrent Session IV: (Same locations,
assignments, and session leaders
as in earlier Concurrent Sessions)
Focus: Review of Revised project summaries,
logic models, and
First-year budgets
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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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Plenary Session
Presentations:
An Analysis of Key Components of FY 2011
HBCU-UP Awards
J.
Arthur Jones, QEM Network
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Chesapeake Ballroom
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11:15
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Project Data Collection and Analysis, Data Management Plan, and
Annual/Final Reports
J.
Arthur Jones and Althea Burns, QEM Network
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Noon/PM
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12:00
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Working Lunch with Follow-up Workshop Participants
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Scott Room
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1:00
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Joint Plenary Session with
Follow-up Workshop Participants
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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Summary Comments by Consultants and QEM Project Staff
-Observations
and Recommendations by Participants
-Next
Steps
Discussion
Facilitator: Shirley McBay, QEM Network
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2:00
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Adjournment
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