HBCU-UP LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
(LDI) COHORT II
SESSION THREE
Holiday Inn Arlington at Ballston
4610 North Fairfax Drive •
Arlington, Virginia • 703/243-9800
Wednesday-Friday, August 10-12,
2011
AGENDA
WEDNESDAY, August 10
AM
8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcome,
Overview, and Purpose of Session III
Shirley
McBay, President, QEM Network
9:15 Reports
and Poster Presentations on Summer Research Experiences:
Wayne Archibald,
University of the Virgin Islands (at Harvard University)
Maria Calhoun,
Tuskegee University (at Duke University)
Facilitator:
Garrick Louis, University of Virginia, and
QEM
Consultant
10:15 Refreshment Break
10:30 Reports
and Poster Presentations on Summer Research Experiences (continued)
Michael Awaah,
Tuskegee University (at Arizona State University)
Otsebele Nare,
Hampton University (at North Carolina State University)
Elham
Fini, North Carolina A&T State University
(at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Facilitator:
Arturo Bronson, University of Texas at El Paso, and
QEM
Consultant
NOON/PM
12:00 Working Lunch
“An Overview of the
NSF Engineering Directorate”
“Broadening
Participation Research Initiation Grants in Engineering
(BRIGE)
Program”
Omnia El-Hakim, Program Director of Diversity and Outreach
Office
of the Assistant Director, Directorate for Engineering
National
Science Foundation
“NSF’s
Broadening Participation Portfolio”
Althea Burns, QEM Network
1:30 “Refining Your
Research Agenda: The Next Steps”
(Assessing Preliminary Data, Building
Collaborations, Integrating Research into
Teaching, Project Dissemination and Sustainability)
Arturo Bronson, QEM Consultant
2:30 Break
2:45 “The NSF Proposal
Process, Merit Review Criteria, and Peer Review Process”
J. Arthur Jones,
Senior Associate, QEM Network
3:15 Discussion
and Refinement of Project Summaries
-Sessions with QEM Consultants Bronson and Louis
6:00 Working Dinner
Group
Discussion: “Scholarly Productivity Expectations of STEM Faculty”
THURSDAY, August 11
AM
8:30 Breakfast
9:00 Visits
with NSF Program Officers
NOON/PM
12:00 Working Lunch
Debriefing
on Visits with NSF Program Officers
2:00 Participants
revise their project summaries based on feedback from Program Officers
and discuss the initial drafts of their Career Advancement Plans with QEM Consultants Bronson and Louis
4:00 Break
4:15 “Mentoring and the Professional Development of Undergraduate Students”
J. Arthur Jones, QEM Network
4:45 “Ethics
in the Conduct of STEM Research”
(Use
of Human Subjects, Institutional Review Boards, Conflicts of Interest, Intellectual Property Rights, Integrity
of Data and Reporting)
Garrick Louis, QEM Consultant
5:30 Adjournment, Day Two and Dinner on Your Own
FRIDAY, August 12
AM
9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:30 Discussion
of Revised Career Advancement Plans
Facilitator:
J. Arthur Jones, QEM Network
10:00 “Time
Management”
Althea Burns, QEM
Network
10:30 Refreshment Break
10:45 “Financial
Management and Reporting Requirements”
Shirley McBay, QEM Network
11:15 Group
Discussion of Overall Summer Research Experiences and Recommendations for
Improvements in Summer Research Appointments
Facilitator:
Shirley McBay, QEM Network
NOON/PM
12:00 Working Lunch
Participants
Report on their Next Steps
Facilitator:
J. Arthur Jones, QEM Network