QUALITY EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES (QEM) NETWORK

National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation through Institutional Integration (I³) Effort

Regional Outreach Workshop for Minority-serving Institutions

March 13-14, 2009

Embassy Suites Hotel - Atlanta Airport • 4700 Southport Road • College Park, GA 30337

Telephone: 404/767-1988

Note: Participants are expected to take advantage each morning of the Hotel’s free breakfast.

AGENDA

Purpose: To ensure that minority-serving institutions are more aware of the I³ effort and to offer

assistance in the development of their ideas for FY 2009 I³ proposals.

Friday, March 13

AM

8:30 Registration

9:00 Welcome, Purpose, and Introduction of Institutional Teams

Shirley McBay, President, QEM Network

9:15 -Keys to Innovation: Creativity, Connectivity, Integration, and Synergy

-Overview of the I³ Effort

-Merit Review Criteria and Special I³ Review Criteria

· Intellectual Merit

· Broader Impact

· Institutional Integration Goals

· Degree of Integration

· Programming, policies, and practices that sustain

institutional changes needed for ongoing synergy

Kathleen Bergin, Program Director, Math and Science Partnerships,

Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)

Directorate for Education & Human Resources (EHR), and Member,

I-cubed Coordinating Committee

National Science Foundation (NSF)

10:15 Break

10:30 -Strengths and Weaknesses of Funded/Unfunded I³ Proposals

-Expectations for I³ Proposals:

Implementation Project Proposals

· Vision and anticipated outcomes

· Plan for achieving outcomes

· Management plan and timeline

· Evaluation plan that addresses effectiveness of strategies

· Process for collection and analysis of relevant student data

Research Project Proposals

· Brief review of literature that informs proposed research

· Methodology and alignment with strategic research questions

• Articulation of logic among research questions, methods,
analyses, inferences, and evidence

Kathleen Bergin, DUE, EHR, NSF

NOON

12:00 Lunch

(Consultants/QEM staff meet with any teams previously
submitting I³ proposals that were not funded)

PM

1:00 Project Evaluation

Costello Brown, Former Dean of Graduate Studies and

Research and (Retired) Professor of Chemistry

California State University-Los Angeles, and QEM Consultant

2:00 Discussion by Institutional Teams of Potential Integration of

Their Active STEM Projects

Facilitator: Fitzgerald Bramwell, Professor

Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky,

and QEM Consultant

3:30 Break

3:45 Continuation of Discussion by Institutional Teams of Potential Integration of

their Active STEM Projects

Facilitator: Costello Brown, QEM Consultant

5:15 Budget Preparation – Things to Consider

Fitzgerald Bramwell, University of Kentucky, and QEM Consultant

6:00 Adjournment - Dinner (on your own)

Overnight Assignment: Institutional teams revise One-page Project Summary for

Presentation on Day Two

Saturday, March 14

AM

9:00 “Tech to Teaching” (FY 2008 I³ Award)

Donna Llewellyn, Co-Principal Investigator

Gary May, Co-Principal Investigator

The Georgia Institute of Technology

9:30 Updates by Institutional Teams on Potential Integration of STEM Projects

Facilitator: Costello Brown, QEM Consultant

10:30 Break

10:45 Continuation of Updates by Institutional Teams on

Potential Integration of STEM Projects

Facilitator: Fitzgerald Bramwell, QEM Consultant

11:45 Discussion of Next Steps Institutional Teams Plan to Take

Facilitator: Shirley McBay, QEM Network

NOON

12:15 Working Lunch: Continued Discussion of Next Steps

Facilitator: Shirley McBay, QEM Network

2:00 Adjournment