Quality Education for Minorities HBCU-UP

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*Regional Workshops on Recruitment and Retention of Minority Males in STEM at MSIs* (Focus: African American Males) • March 19-20, 2010 • Atlanta, GA .... AGENDA
*HBCU-UP Proposal Development Workshop**AGENDA* November 20-21, 2009 • The Four Points by Sheraton BWI Airport • Baltimore, MD
*"Day at NSF" for Presidents and Chief Academic Officers of MSIs • September 15, 2009* *AGENDA*
QEM/HBCU-UP Leadership Development Institute (LDI) for STEM Faculty Session One • August 10–14, 2009 • Washington, DC AGENDA (with links to presentations)	Workshop on Mathematics Teacher Preparation for HBCU-UP Grantees Jackson, MS • August 28-29, 2009 Agenda (with links to presentations)
NSF Regional Grants Conference, October 5–6, 2009 - Jackson, MS – Hosted By Jackson State University

QEM/HBCU-UP Leadership Development Institute (LDI) for STEM Faculty ..... more information
Session Two, February 5-6, 2010 • Atlanta, GA .... AGENDA

Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP)
PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION'S
HBCU-UP CURRENT AND POTENTIAL GRANTEES

In September 2008, the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide technical assistance to current and potential grantees in the Foundation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP). This grant will support the institutions’ efforts to offer a high quality education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to their students. The goal of HBCU-UP is to ensure that graduates of these institutions are prepared to successfully pursue advanced STEM degrees or to enter the Nation’s science and engineering workforce upon graduation.

Foundation support is enabling the QEM Network to:

Annually conduct a two-day proposal development and evaluation workshop in the fall prior to the HBCU-UP Program’s annual deadline; and a one-day follow-up workshop after HBCU-UP Program award decisions are announced, to discuss next steps for institutions submitting proposals in that year’s competition, whether or not their proposals successfully merited a grant award.

On Friday and Saturday, November 20-21, 2009, QEM conducted an HBCU-UP proposal development and evaluation workshop in Baltimore, MD for institutions eligible to submit planning, multi-year, or Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) implementation proposals in the FY 2010 NSF/HBCU-UP competition.

*Proposal Development Workshop* November 20-21, 2009 • The Four Points by Sheraton BWI Airport • Baltimore, MD *AGENDA*

On Saturday, November 21, 2009 the QEM Network conducted a special one-day follow-up workshop in Baltimore, MD for institutions that submitted planning grant or multi-year proposals in the FY 2009 HBCU-UP competition, whether or not the proposals were funded.

Proposal Follow-up Workshop, November 21, 2009
The Four Points by Sheraton BWI Airport • Baltimore, MD

Provide technical assistance to new grantees through campus visits to observe project activities and to make recommendations to help ensure that their projects are unfolding as planned. During the visits, critical needs identified during the first year of project implementation will be addressed. The visits also will serve to assist in the development of strategies to address unanticipated barriers that may have developed.

Conduct a special-focused workshop each year to build and further strengthen institutional capacity in STEM. The special workshops will focus respectively on HBCU-UP targeted infusion and STEM education research proposals; designing STEM teacher preparation programs that produce graduates well-prepared to provide high quality STEM instruction at the K-12 level, particularly in mathematics; and effective STEM instructional strategies.

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network conducted a two-day workshop on mathematics teacher preparation on Friday-Saturday, August 28-29, 2009 at the Hilton Jackson hotel in Jackson, MS. The workshop focused on designing teacher preparation programs that produce graduates well-prepared to provide high quality instruction in mathematics at the pre-college level. The workshop focus was on mathematics because of: (1) its critical role in the success of students who pursue degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at the undergraduate level; and (2) the need to eliminate a major impediment to the retention of students in STEM majors at HBCUs caused by their having to enroll in developmental mathematics when they enter college. View Agenda

HBCU-UP grantees were invited to identify and register a two-person team (a mathematics faculty member and an education/mathematics education faculty member) to participate in this two-day professional development workshop. QEM made travel and lodging arrangements and covered the associated expenses for up to 20 two-person institutional teams to participate in the workshop.

WORKSHOP PURPOSE: To explore instructional strategies and practices known to be effective, or that have a high potential to be effective, in enhancing the mathematics achievement of African American and other underrepresented minority pre-college and college freshman-level students. The workshop included an examination of several questions involving pre-service and in-service teacher education in mathematics. For example:

• What should teachers know and be able to do in pre-college mathematics?
• How can mathematical applications be used to create greater student interest
. and achievement in mathematics?
• How can mathematics instruction be enhanced through the use of technology?
• Does the mathematics curriculum for pre-college teachers of mathematics at
. participating institutions comply with the most recent curriculum standards of the
. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics?
• What is in the literature regarding K-12 mathematics instruction that relates to
. strategies for improving teacher education in mathematics?
• Do workable strategies exist (e.g., the use of computerized lesson modules,
. Saturday supplementary sessions, or summer mathematics camps) for
. accelerating K-12 student learning in mathematics?

Targeted Infusion and Education Research FY 2009 Proposal Development Workshop
Baltimore, MD • October 31-November 1, 2008
AGENDA (with presentations)

QEM conducted a two-day proposal workshop focused on Targeted Infusion and Education Research proposals requesting support from the NSF ’s HBCU-UP Program. The workshop took place on Friday and Saturday, October 31-November 1, 2008, at The Four Points by Sheraton BWI Airport, located at the BWI Airport, Baltimore, MD. AGENDA (with presentations)

This workshop was designed to accommodate 10 STEM faculty members whose institutions are seeking support for Targeted Infusion proposals and 15 two-person (1 STEM faculty, 1 Education faculty) teams whose institutions are seeking support for Education Research Proposals from HBCU-UP. Institutions submitting unsuccessful Targeted Infusion or Education Research proposals in previous HBCU-UP competitions were encouraged to attend and to bring their reviewer comments.

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Maintain a listserv for HBCU-UP Project Directors as well as links at QEM’s Website to potential sources of federal and non-federal support to assist grantee institutions in sustaining and institutionalizing the successful elements of their HBCU-UP projects.

The QEM HBCU-UP project addresses the under-representation and the under-preparation of minorities in STEM by focusing on a group of institutions that award a significant percentage of the STEM baccalaureate degrees earned by African Americans. The project will enhance participating institutions’ capacity to develop competitive proposals, successfully implement funded projects, improve STEM program planning, and incorporate proven strategies for effective STEM teaching and learning.

QEM HBCU-UP WORKSHOPS/EVENTS (March 2006 – September 2008):
QEM received earlier support from NSF to provide technical assistance to current and potential HBCU-UP grantees in several areas, including: curricular reform and enhancement; faculty professional development; student support; research experiences for undergraduates; and scientific instrumentation to improve instruction.

Planning and Multi-Year FY 2009 Proposal Development and Evaluation Workshop
Memphis, TN • September 19-20, 2008 AGENDA (with presentations)

FY 2008 Proposal Follow-up Workshop
Memphis, TN • September 19-20, 2008AGENDA

QEM Presentations at the Minority Serving Institutions Research Partnership Conference May 13, 2008MCBAY JONES

QEM/HBCU-UP STEM STUDENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP for Faculty AGENDA
New Orleans, LA • June 6-7, 2008

FY2008 Proposal Development Workshop • Washington, DC • October 19-20, 2007 Agenda

Proposal Development Workshop   New Orleans, LA • October 5-6, 2006 Agenda
Proposal Follow-up Workshop   New Orleans, LA • October 7, 2006 Agenda

Biology-Mathematics Faculty Workshop #2 Atlanta, GA • August 18-19, 2006    Agenda
Biology-Mathematics Faculty Workshop#1      Baltimore, MD • April 21-22, 2006 Agenda

MSP Workshop  Jackson, MS • March 24, 2006   Agenda

Download FY 2009 HBCU-UP Solicitation (.pdf)

NSF's Innovation Through Institutional Integration Initiative(I³)

For further information on the QEM/HBCU-UP Project, please contact Shirley McBay, Project Director, at smmcbay1@qem.org or Althea Burns, Associate, at aburns@qem.org or via telephone at 202/659-1818.