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Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) Biology–Mathematics Faculty Workshop – April 2006, Baltimore, MD
April 21-22, 2006 Workshop Participants
HBCU-UP multi-year grantee institutions in the Washington Metro area were invited to send a three-person team (2 mathematics faculty and 1 Biology faculty) to a two-day workshop that the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network conducted for faculty who teach mathematics and/or Biology at these institutions. The workshop's purpose was to enhance the quality of Biology and Mathematics instruction as well as to improve student performance and interest in STEM fields at these institutions. The workshop took place Friday and Saturday, April 21-22, 2006, at the Four Points by Sheraton BWI Airport Hotel.
The Biology-Mathematics Workshop built upon a Mathematics Workshop conducted in August 2004 (at Spelman College and the Atlanta Hilton Hotel) for faculty who teach mathematics at NSF/HBCU-UP grantee institutions. The Workshop also benefited from three regional workshops for grantees in NSF’s Tribal Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (TCUP) conducted by QEM staff and consultants. Those workshops focused on content and pedagogical strategies in five areas: developmental mathematics, college algebra, geometry, pre-calculus, and applications of mathematics. QEM also conducted a Biology-Mathematics Workshop for Tribal College faculty based upon a recommendation by participants in the TCUP Mathematics Workshop Series.
Expected outcomes included the identification of: key concepts that should be covered in introductory-level Biology; mathematical applications in Biology; emerging fields linking Biology and mathematics; and projects/strategies designed to engage students at HBCU-UP institutions in research and in peer tutoring.
If you would like further information about the workshop, please feel free to contact QEM Senior Associate
J. Arthur Jones, at jajones@qem.org or QEM President Shirley McBay, at smmcbay1@qem.org. Either also can be reached by telephone at 202/659-1818.
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