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Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

Follow-up Proposal Workshop for the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s

Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP)

Four Points by Sheraton BWI Airport Hotel • 7032 Elm Road • Baltimore, MD 21240

Saturday, October 22, 2011

AGENDA

 

Workshop Purpose: To discuss next steps with HBCUs that attended the FY 2011 QEM HBCU-UP Proposal Development Workshop and submitted a proposal in the FY 2011 HBCU-UP competition.

 

 

AM

 

 

8:15

Registration and Buffet Breakfast

 

Scott Room

8:45

Welcome, Introductions, and Review of Purpose and Agenda

                                Shirley McBay, President, QEM Network

 

 

9:00

Meaning of the Intellectual Merit Review Criterion

                       Discussion by Participants of the Intellectual Merit of Their Proposals

                                Facilitator: Costello Brown, Former Dean of Graduate Studies and Research and

                                         Professor of Chemistry (retired)

                                         California State University-Los Angeles, and QEM Consultant

 

 

9:45

Meaning of the Broader Impacts Merit Review Criterion

                       Discussion by Participants of the Broader Impacts of Their Proposals

                                Facilitator: Arturo Bronson, Professor

                                                        Department of Mechanical Engineering

                                                       University of Texas at El Paso, and QEM Consultant

 

 

10:15

Break

 

Scott Room

10:30

Three Concurrent Sessions                                                                                                                                         

                       (One-on-one Institutional Sessions with QEM Consultants

                        Discussion of Reviewer Comments and Key Proposal Components: 

                       Project Rationale, Goals, Objectives, Strategies, and Performance Indicators

                      

                       Session I:  Fitzgerald Bramwell, Associate Provost for Research, Howard University,

                                                            and QEM Consultant

                       Session II: Costello Brown, QEM Consultant

                       Session III: Arturo Bronson, QEM Consultant

 

Scott Room

Noon/PM

 

 

 

12:00

Buffet Lunch with Participants in Two-day Proposal Development Workshop

 

Scott Room

1:00

Joint Plenary Session

                       Project Assessment and Evaluation Plans                                                                                        

                                Costello Brown, QEM Consultant

 

Scott Room

1:45

Break

 

 

2:00

Three Concurrent Sessions                                                                                                                            

                       (One-on-one Institutional Sessions with same QEM Consultants)

                       Discussion of Next Steps

 

Scott Room

3:00

Adjournment