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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”

                   

   7:00        Adjournment, Day One

 

 

 

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

 

  1:30         Adjournment