QUALITY EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES (QEM) NETWORK
National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation
through Institutional Integration (I3) Effort
Regional
Outreach Workshop for Minority-serving Institutions
DoubleTree Hotel ¥
Houston Intercontinental Airport ¥ 15747 John F. Kennedy Blvd
Houston, Texas
March
27–28, 2009
AGENDA
Purpose: To ensure that minority-serving
institutions are more aware of the I3 effort and to offer
assistance in the development of their ideas for FY
2009 I3 proposals.
Friday, March 27
AM
8:30 Registration
9:00 Welcome,
Purpose, and Introduction of Institutional Teams
Shirley
McBay, President, QEM Network
9:15 -Overview
of the I3 Effort
Goals
Participating NSF programs
Eligibility
and limit on number of proposals
-Merit
Review Criteria and Special I3 Review Criteria
á
Intellectual
Merit
á
Broader
Impact
á
Institutional
Integration Goals
á
Track
record of existing awards on which integration is based
á
Degree
of Innovation
á
Programming,
policies, and practices that sustain
institutional changes needed for ongoing synergy
Diane
Spresser, Consultant
Office
of the Assistant Director (OAD)
Directorate for Education & Human Resources (EHR)
National
Science Foundation (NSF)
10:15 Break
10:30 -Strengths
and Weaknesses of Funded/Unfunded I3 Proposals
2008
I3 Proposal Themes
2008
I3 Examples of Funded Projects
Common
Weaknesses
-Expectations
for I3 Proposals:
Implementation
Project Proposals
á
Vision
and anticipated outcomes
á
Plan
for achieving outcomes
á
Results
from existing projects on which proposed integration is based
á
Management
plan and timeline
á
Evaluation
plan that addresses effectiveness of strategies
á
Process
for collection and analysis of relevant student data
Research
Project Proposals
á
Brief
review of literature that informs proposed research
á
Methodology
and alignment with strategic research questions
¥ Articulation of logic
among research questions, methods,
analyses,
inferences, and evidence
Funding
Request and Due Dates for Proposals
Diane
Spresser, OAD, EHR, NSF
NOON
12:00 Lunch
(Consultants/QEM
staff meet with any teams previously
submitting
I3 proposals that were not funded)
PM
1:00 Project Evaluation
Costello
Brown, Former Dean of Graduate Studies and
Research
and (Retired) Professor of Chemistry
California
State University-Los Angeles, and QEM Consultant
2:00 Discussion
by Institutional Teams of Potential Integration of
Their
Active STEM Projects
Facilitator:
Fitzgerald
Bramwell, Professor
Department of Chemistry, University of
Kentucky,
and QEM
Consultant
3:30 Break
3:45 Continuation
of Discussion by Institutional Teams of Potential Integration of
their
Active STEM Projects
Facilitator:
Costello Brown, QEM Consultant
5:15 Budget
Preparation – Things to Consider
Fitzgerald
Bramwell, University of Kentucky, and QEM Consultant
6:00 Adjournment - Dinner (on your own)
Overnight
Assignment: Institutional teams prepare One-page Project Summary for
Presentation
on Day Two
Saturday,
March 28
AM
9:00 Integration
of Education and Mentoring Programs at Louisiana State University (FY 2008 I3
Award)
Guoqiang Li, Co-Principal Investigator
Associate
Professor, Department
of Mechanical Engineering
Southern University @ Baton Rouge
9:30 Updates
by Institutional Teams on Potential Integration of STEM Projects
Facilitator: Costello Brown, QEM Consultant
10:30 Break
10:45 Continuation
of Updates by Institutional Teams on
Potential
Integration of STEM Projects
Facilitator: Fitzgerald Bramwell, QEM Consultant
11:45 Discussion
of Next Steps Institutional Teams Plan to Take
Facilitator: Shirley McBay, QEM Network
NOON
12:15 Working
Lunch: Continued Discussion of Next Steps
Facilitator: Shirley McBay, QEM Network
2:00 Adjournment