Building Bridges and Getting Over Them:

Broadening Participation in the SBE Sciences

National Science Foundation Workshop

4201 Wilson Boulevard

Arlington, Virginia

Room 1295

September 29-30, 2004

Agenda

Wednesday, September 29

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.         Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.         Welcome                   Wanda E. Ward, Acting Assistant Director

                                                                     Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic

Sciences (SBE), NSF

9:15 - 9:30 a.m.         Workshop Overview Shirley M. McBay, Workshop Chair, and President

Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

9:30 - 10:30 a.m.       Overview of SBE Sciences, Programs, and Demographics

Richard Lempert, Director

                                                                     Division of Social and Economic Sciences, SBE

10:30 - 10:45 a.m.   Break

10:45 a.m.

- 12:00 Noon             Building Bridges: Key Opportunities in NSF Research and Education Programs

Moderator:               Marguerite (Peg) Barratt, Director

                                                                     Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences

Presenters:             Þ  Representative Programs in Education and Human

Resources (HRD, DUE, GRE), NSF

Roosevelt Johnson, Program Director

                                    Division of Human Resource Development

Þ  Priority areas (HSD, BE, Nano, ITR/Cyber, Math,

Broadened Participation)

Priscilla Nelson, Senior Advisor

Directorate for Engineering

Þ  Integration of Research & Education (CAREER,

IGERT, REU, ADVANCE)

Jolene Jesse, Program Officer

Cross-Directorate Activities, SBE

Þ  Centers (SLC, STC, ERC, CREST)

Soo-Siang Lim, Program Officer

Science of Learning Centers Program, SBE

12:00 Noon

- 1:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 - 2:30 p.m.        Factors Contributing to Institutional Success: Brief Reports from

                                   Participating Institutions    Shirley McBay, QEM Network

2:30 - 2:45 p.m.        Break

2:45 - 3:30 p.m.        Emerging Collaborations to Broaden Participation in the SBE Sciences

Moderator: Roosevelt Johnson, NSF

The University of California Collaborative

Gloria Chun, Graduate Diversity Outreach Coordinator

College of Letters and Science, University of California-Berkeley

Shirley Hune, Associate Dean of the Graduate Division

University of California-Los Angeles

Cynthia Hudley, Associate Dean of the Graduate Division

University of California-Santa Barbara                                                    

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.        Two Concurrent Sessions: Developing an Action Plan for Increasing the

                                    Production of SBE Scientists from Underrepresented Groups

                                  Moderators:                            Bonney Sheahan, Program Officer

                                                                                    Cross-Directorate Activities, SBE

                                                                                    Patricia White, Program Officer

                                                                                    Sociology Program, Social and

                                                                                    Economic Sciences Division  

5:30 p.m.           Reception

Thursday, September 30

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.         Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m.

- 12:00 Noon      Two Concurrent Sessions: Developing an Action Plan for Increasing the

            Production of SBE Scientists from Underrepresented Groups (continued)

12:00 Noon

- 1:00 p.m. Lunch

                                    Report out of Recommendations from Concurrent Sessions

                                    General Discussion and Identification of Next Steps

1:00 p.m.               Meeting with Dr. Arden Bement, Jr., Acting Director, NSF, and

Dr. Joseph Bordogna, Deputy Director, NSF

2:00 p.m. Adjournment