Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network

Workshop on the Recruitment and Retention of Hispanic Male Students in

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) at HSIs

Marriott Las Vegas Suites • Las Vegas, NV

March 26-27, 2010

AGENDA

FRIDAY, MARCH 26

AM

8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast 17^th Floor Foyer

9:00 Opening Session Lake Mead/Red Rock

Welcome, Introductions, and Review of Purpose and Agenda (17^th Floor)

Shirley McBay, President, QEM Network

9:30 Plenary Session:

Overview of Research Findings to Date (Data and Lessons Learned)

on STEM Participation and Achievement of Hispanic Males

STEM AND HISPANIC MALES - What's the Problem?

Carlos Rodriguez, Principal Research Scientist

American Institutes for Research (AIR), and QEM Consultant

10:00 A Best Practice: Use of Data to Inform Program Interventions

Alicia C. Dowd, Associate Professor and Co-Director

Center for Urban Education, University of Southern California (USC)

10:30 Group Discussion of Findings, Status, and Broadening Participation Challenges

Participants Share the Findings and Lessons Learned from their Initiatives

11:15 Coffee Break

11:30 Plenary Session:

Effective Strategies and Best Practices in the Recruitment and

Retention of Hispanic Males in STEM

Mark Hernandez, Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental

and Architectural Engineering, and Director, Colorado Diversity Initiative

University of Colorado, Boulder (UCB)

NOON/PM

12:00 Group Discussion of Strategies and Best Practices – Identify Success Factors

Teams Discuss their Institutions’ Current Recruitment/Retention Strategies

12:30 Working Lunch Mt. Charleston (17^th Floor)

Continued Discussion of Institutions’ Current Recruitment/Retention

Strategies and Lessons Learned

1:30 Plenary Session: Lake Mead/Red Rock

Development of Innovative and Creative Enrollment and Support Strategies

in STEM at Critical Junctures along the Educational Pathway

Lorelle Espinosa, Director of Policy and Strategic Initiatives

Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), and QEM Consultant

Victor Saenz, Assistant Professor, Educational Administration

University of Texas at Austin, and QEM Consultant

2:30 Concurrent Sessions: Potential STEM Pathway Components

(see assignment sheet for working groups)

Each working group is to discuss the following topics:

- Current status and contributing factors in Hispanic male educational

attainment/achievement in STEM at each critical juncture

- Best practices, strategies, and models for increasing STEM enrollment/

participation of Hispanic males at each critical juncture

- Recommendations for Essential components of a pathway-focused

replication “model” for each critical juncture

Group I Facilitators: Alicia Dowd, USC and Victor Saenz, UT Austin Lake Mead

Group II Facilitators: Lorelle Espinosa, IHEP and J. Arthur Jones, QEM Lone Mountain

Group III Facilitators: Carlos Rodriguez, AIR and Althea Burns, QEM Laughlin

Group IV Facilitators: Mark Hernandez, UCB and Costello Brown, QEM Mesquite

4:00 Break

4:15 Plenary Session: Lake Mead/Red Rock

Working Groups present overview of their discussions/recommendations

regarding key strategies and best practices for recruitment and retention

initiatives for Hispanic males at critical junctures of the pathway

4:45 Group Discussion:

An Inquiry-Based Session on Facilitating/Inhibiting Factors in the

Implementation of Initiatives/Programs to Address Hispanic Males’

Participation in Higher Education and STEM

(Topics will include the Impact of Cultural Traditions on Hispanic/Latino

Male Participation in Higher Education and STEM)

Facilitator: Alicia Dowd, USC, and QEM Consultant

5:30 Speaker: Identification of Pathway Components for Potential Replication,

from Undergraduate to Graduate School

Mark Hernandez, University of Colorado, Boulder, and QEM Consultant

Review of Assignment and Next Day’s Agenda

Shirley McBay, QEM Network

6:15 Adjournment, Day One and Dinner on Your Own

Overnight Assignment: Institutional teams discuss potential changes/modifications to their approaches to the recruitment and retention of Hispanic males in STEM and identify three to five critical elements of pathway components to increase their enrollment in STEM.

SATURDAY, MARCH 27

AM

8:30 Continental Breakfast Lake Mead/Red Rock

9:00 Concurrent Sessions

Development of pathway-based STEM recruitment and retention strategies,

with a specific focus on three critical transition junctures:

- High School to College/2-year College Transition

- 2-Year to 4-Year College/University Transition

- Undergraduate to Graduate School Transition

Institutional Teams Share Program Ideas, Critical Elements, and

Strategies from Overnight Assignment

Group I Facilitators: Alicia Dowd and Victor Saenz Lake Mead

Group II Facilitators: Lorelle Espinosa and J. Arthur Jones Lone Mountain

Group III Facilitators: Carlos Rodriguez and Althea Burns Laughlin

Group IV Facilitators: Mark Hernandez and Costello Brown Mesquite

10:00 Plenary Session: Lake Mead/Red Rock

Replication Techniques and Processes for Implementing Hispanic Male Initiatives

- Translating methods that demonstrate successful outcomes

into evidence-based practice

Lorelle Espinosa, QEM Consultant

10:30 Facilitating/Inhibiting Factors in Program Implementation and Lessons Learned

Victor Saenz, QEM Consultant

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Plenary Session: Lake Mead/Red Rock

Potential Sources of Support: Federal and Private Foundations/Corporations

Marilyn Suiter, Program Director for Special Activities

Division of Human Resource Development (HRD)

Directorate for Education and Human Resources, NSF

Costello Brown, QEM Network

PM

12:15 Working Lunch Mt. Charleston

Working Groups present summary of key discussion points and Lake Mead/Red Rock

recommendations for pathway transition options/model

Closing Comments and Next Steps

1:30 Adjournment