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Tribal
Colleges and Universities Program
The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network has received a grant from the National Science Foundation in support of leadership development in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) at the Nation’s Tribal Colleges. QEM’s project is designed to further the goals of the Foundation’s Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP). QEM’s STEM Leadership Development Project emphasizes faculty and staff professional development as a mechanism for building institutional capacity. Consequently, the project provides a range of activities to meet the needs of Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), Alaska Native-serving institutions, and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions. Annual Workshops focusing on curriculum, infrastructure, and/or faculty professional development are offered to prospective TCUP applicants, while special workshops provide support to current multi-year grant recipients related to project implementation, grants management, and student development. Professional development activities for TCUP faculty are designed to stimulate faculty scholarly growth and expand STEM teaching capacity. Collectively, these activities are designed to provide an intensive level of support for TCUP-eligible institutions that is consistent with the goals of NSF’s TCUP program. Details on recent and previous project activities are provided below. =========================
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Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network conducted
a two-day workshop on Culture and Curriculum on Friday-Saturday,
October 16-17, 2009, at the Embassy Suites in Albuquerque, NM for STEM faculty at TCUP grantee institutions. The goals of the Culture and Curriculum workshop were to enhance participants’ knowledge and understanding of the importance of integrating culture into STEM curriculum; exchange successful strategies for integrating culture into the curriculum content and instruction for their courses; identify potential collaborations across institutions and within and across disciplines for integrating culture into STEM curriculum; and discuss methods for assessing and evaluating the success of these initiatives.
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Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network conducted
a two-day workshop on Assessment and Evaluation on Friday-Saturday,
August 7-8, 2009, at the Minneapolis Sofitel located
in Bloomington, MN for two-person teams consisting of the TCUP Principal Investigator and the project staff member responsible for collecting and managing project data. The goals of the Assessment and Evaluation workshop were to enhance participants’ understanding of effective project evaluation; their use of TSET data to conduct project assessment; and provide guidance to participating teams on how to improve their evaluation plans to assess the effectiveness of their TCUP projects.
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Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network conducted
a two-day workshop on Financial
Management for TCUP Phase I or Phase II grantees on Friday-Saturday,
November 7-8, 2008, at the Minneapolis Sofitel located
in Bloomington, Minnesota at 5601 West 78th Street. The
workshop focused on the "nuts and bolts" of the financial management
of multi-year NSF awards. It is the second financial workshop
conducted by QEM for TCUP grantees and was for TCUP grantee institutions
that did not participate in the first financial management workshop. See AGENDA
(with presentations)
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Network also conducted a
one-and a-half-day Student
Professional Development Workshop for advisors of STEM students at
TCUP grantee institutions. The workshop focused on strategies
the participants can use to support/enhance the professional
development of STEM students as they move through their two-year/four-year
undergraduate program toward graduate study or a STEM-related
career. ======================== The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network received support from the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) to offer a second STEM Leadership Development Institute (LDI) from August 2008–August 2009. The first LDI was offered August 2006-August 2007. See LDI COHORT I - FELLOWS IN THE NEWS. The LDI is designed to support and encourage broader participation by Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian faculty and staff in leadership roles of STEM projects at their home institutions. Participants in the three-part Leadership Institute come from Native American, Alaska Native-serving, and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions that have multi-year projects supported through NSF/TCUP. Thirty participants from 16 TCUP institutions were selected as Cohort II participants in the 2008-2009 Institute.
SCHEDULE:
The 2008-2009 Institute consisted of three sessions: a five-day workshop (Monday-Friday, August
4-8, 2008); a two-day workshop (Friday-Saturday, February 6-7,
2009); and a five-day workshop (Monday-Friday, August 3-7, 2009). Click
here for more information on LDI Cohort II.
INTERNSHIPS:
The QEM TCUP Project also offers summer internships for
students enrolled at TCUP institutions. Internships provide students
the opportunity to become familiar with science and science education
policies and how they affect the education of American Indians
and other Native Americans; and to learn about health disparities
disproportionately affecting American Indians and other minority
groups. During the internship, students who are pursuing a science-
or engineering-related degree at a tribal college or university
will have an opportunity to interact with program officers at NSF,
the U.S. Department of Education, and other federal agencies
who are involved in implementing science and education policies; visit
a range of offices, museums, and other sites in the Washington,
DC area; pursue a research topic of interest to them; strengthen
their communications and leadership skills; receive training on
developing and conducting community outreach projects; and develop
a peer network that includes students from across the country who
are serving as summer interns in other QEM programs. The QEM Network Internship Program is designed to enhance students’ ability to: apply their knowledge to the internship assignment; increase their understanding of the educational and health needs of minorities;. MORE
It is anticipated that the Project’s annual workshops, internships, and other professional development activities will benefit participants well beyond the life of the grant through resource development/management and the enhancement of STEM faculty and students. Since TCUP grants address educational areas such as faculty development, curriculum enhancement, and undergraduate training and research experiences, this project has the potential for considerable impact on STEM educational experiences for Native American students nationwide. An External Advisory Committee of distinguished educational leaders, including leaders of TCUP-eligible institutions, provides advice and overall guidance during the Project’s implementation. The current members of the Advisory Committee are listed below.
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ADDITIONAL QEM TCUP PROJECT ACTIVITIES, 2006-2007 In 2006, QEM received support for the first QEM/TCUP Leadership Development Institute Workshop Series, designed to support and encourage broader participation by Native American and Alaska Native faculty and staff in efforts to enhance STEM education at their home institutions. The Institute consisted of three sessions: Session I held August 21-25, 2006; Session II held February 2-3, 2007; and Session III held August 6-10, 2007. Other leadership development activities conducted include a Biology/Mathematics Faculty Workshop and aPlanning Grant Proposal Development Workshopheld in Minneapolis, MN. Annual Workshops focusing on curriculum, infrastructure, and/or faculty professional development were offered to prospective TCUP applicants, while Project Management Institutes provided support to current multi-year grant recipients related to project implementation. Professional development activities for Tribal College faculty and a workshop series for faculty who teach mathematics at tribal colleges with TCUP awards were designed to stimulate faculty growth and expand STEM teaching capacity. Collectively, these activities provided an intensive level of support for Tribal Colleges and Universities that is consistent with the goals of the NSF TCUP program. Listed below are some of the 2006 and 2007 QEM TCUP-focused workshops.
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Workshop on Enhancing STEM Research at TCUP Institutions
