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, September 19-20, 2008, QEM conducted
an HBCU-UP proposal development and evaluation
workshop in Memphis, TN for institutions eligible to submit
planning or multi-year proposals in the FY 2009 NSF/HBCU-UP
competition. View
AGENDA
On Saturday, September 20, 2008 the QEM Network
conducted a special one-day follow-up workshop
in Memphis for institutions that submitted planning grant
or multi-year proposals in the FY 2008 HBCU-UP competition,
whether or not the proposals were funded. View
AGENDA
Providetechnical
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 will be conducting
a two-day workshop on teacher preparation that will take place on Friday-Saturday, August 28-29, at the "Mississippi E-Center at Jackson State University," located at 1230 Raymond Road in Jackson, MS. The workshop will focus on designing teacher preparation programs that produce graduates well-prepared to provide high quality instruction in mathematics at the pre-college level. The workshop is focusing 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.
HBCU-UP grantees are 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 will make travel and lodging arrangements and cover the associated expenses for 20 two-person institutional teams to participate in the workshop. The deadline for registration for this workshop is Friday, June 5. (Get Registration Form)
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 will include 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?
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.
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 – June 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.
- QEM
Presentations at the Minority Serving Institutions Research Partnership Conference May 13,
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QEM/HBCU-UP
STEM STUDENT PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP for Faculty AGENDA ------ New
Orleans, LA • June
6-7, 2008
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
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and Maintained by:
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Updated: APRIL 2009
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