Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

Planning and Multi-year 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

November 19-20, 2010

 

AGENDA

 

Purpose: To assist participating institutions in further developing their ideas for planning, implementation, and

ACE proposals to NSF’s HBCU-UP Program prior to the FY 2011 deadline.

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19

AM

8:00            Registration and Continental Breakfast                                                                  Carlton Room

 

8:30            Welcome, Introductions, Review of Workshop Purpose,                                               Scott Room

                     Meeting Packet, and Agenda

                                 Shirley McBay, President, QEM Network

 

8:45            -Overview of the National Science Foundation (NSF)

                  -Overview of the HBCU-UP Program: Goals and Objectives for Planning,

                      Implementation, and Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Projects

                                 Caesar Jackson, Program Director, HBCU-UP

                                        Division of Human Resource Development (HRD)

                                        Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), NSF

 

                  -Strengths and Weaknesses in Funded/Non-funded HBCU-UP Proposals

                  -FY2011 HBCU-UP Program Solicitation and Changes in the

                      Proposal Submission Process

                                 Claudia Rankins, Program Director, HBCU-UP, HRD/EHR, NSF

 

9:30            Questions and Answers

 

9:45            Review of NSF’s Merit Review Criteria and Process

                                 Costello Brown, Former Dean of Graduate Studies and

                                        Research and (retired) Professor of Chemistry

                                        California State University-Los Angeles, and QEM Consultant

 

10:15           Break          

 

10:30           Discussion of a Logic Model                                                                                        Scott Room

                                 J. Arthur Jones, Senior Associate, QEM Network

 

11:00           Concurrent Session I: (See Assignment Sheet)

                     Focus: Brief Presentations of Project Summaries and Logic Models

 

                      Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Proposal Track                                       Severn Room

                                 Shirley McBay, QEM Network

 

 

                      Second-Time Implementation Proposal Track                                                              Room 2101

                                 Costello Brown, QEM Consultant

                                 J. Arthur Jones, QEM Network

 

                      Planning and First-Time Implementation Proposal Tracks                                      Potomac Room

                                 Arturo Bronson, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

                                        University of Texas at El Paso, and QEM Consultant

                                 Althea Burns, Associate and Conference Coordinator, QEM Network

 

PM

12:15          Working Lunch: Reflections on Morning Presentations and Discussion                      Carlton Room

                                 Facilitator: Shirley McBay, QEM Network

1:15            Plenary Session                                                                                                                  Scott Room

                      Multi-year Grantees Share Their HBCU-UP Experiences:

                      What Worked Well, What Didn’t Work Well, and Lessons Learned

 

                      Panelists:

                      Dr. Murty Akundi, Chair, Department of Physics

                                 Xavier University of Louisiana

                      Dr. Guoqing Tang, Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Mathematics

                                 North Carolina A&T State University

                      Dr. Isai Urasa, Chair, Department of Chemistry

                                 Hampton University

                                 Panel Moderator: Althea Burns, QEM Network

 

2:00            Concurrent Session II: (Same Locations, assignments, and Session Leaders as

                                                         Concurrent Session I)

                      Focus: Project Goals, Objectives, Intellectual Merit, and Broader Impacts

 

3:15            Break          

 

3:30            Plenary Session                                                                                                                  Scott Room

                     -Project Management Plans

                                 Costello Brown, QEM Consultant

                      -Project Timelines

                                 Arturo Bronson, QEM Consultant

                      -Project Budgets

                                 Shirley McBay, QEM Network

 

4:45            Concurrent Session III: (Same Locations, Assignments, and Session Leaders

                                                          as in earlier Concurrent Sessions)

                      Focus: Project Management, Timelines, and Budgets

 

6:00            Break

 

6:30            Working Dinner - Review of the Day’s Activities                                                                 Crane B

 

Overnight Assignment: Institutional Teams are to revise their project

                                  summaries, logic models, and their initial budgets

 

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20

AM

8:30            Continental Breakfast                                                                                                Carlton Room

                                 Institutional Teams turn in printed project summaries

                                 and logic models to QEM

 

9:00            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

 

10:15           Break          

 

10:30           Plenary Session                                                                                                             Scott Room

                      HBCU-UP Education Research and Targeted Infusion Tracks

                                 Claudia Rankins, Program Director, HBCU-UP, HRD/EHR, NSF

 

11:15           Project Data Collection and Annual/Final Reports

                                 J. Arthur Jones, QEM Network

 

Noon/PM

12:00           Working Lunch with Follow-up Workshop Participants                                            Carlton Room

 

1:00            Project Assessment and Evaluation Plans

                                 Costello Brown, QEM Consultant

 

1:45            Summary Comments by Consultants and QEM Project Staff

                      -Observations and Recommendations by Participants

                      -Next Steps

                                 Discussion Facilitator: Shirley McBay, QEM Network

 

2:00            Adjournment