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Historically
Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP)
PROVIDING
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION'S
HBCU-UP CURRENT AND POTENTIAL GRANTEES
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The Quality Education
for Minorities (QEM) Network received a grant from the
National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide technical assistance
to current and potential grantees in the Foundation’s Historically
Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP). This
grant supports the institutions’ efforts to offer a high
quality education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM) to their students. The goal of HBCU-UP is to ensure that graduates
of these institutions are prepared to successfully pursue advanced
STEM degrees or to enter the Nation’s science and engineering
workforce upon graduation.
The QEM HBCU-UP project addresses the under-representation and the under-preparation of minorities in STEM by focusing on a group of institutions that award a significant percentage of the STEM baccalaureate degrees earned by African Americans. The project will enhance participating institutions’ capacity to develop competitive proposals, successfully implement funded projects, improve STEM program planning, and incorporate proven strategies for effective STEM teaching and learning.
Foundation support is enabling the QEM Network to:
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Annually conduct a two-day
proposal development and evaluation workshop in the fall
prior to the HBCU-UP Program’s annual deadline; and a one-day
follow-up workshop after HBCU-UP Program award decisions are announced,
to discuss next steps for institutions submitting proposals in
that year’s competition,
whether or not their proposals successfully merited a grant award.
- On Friday and Saturday, November 19-20, 2010, QEM conducted
an HBCU-UP proposal development and evaluation
workshop in Baltimore, MD for institutions eligible to submit
planning, multi-year, or Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) implementation proposals in the FY 2011 NSF/HBCU-UP
competition.
FY 2011 Proposal Development Workshop
November 19-20, 2010 • The Four Points by Sheraton BWI Airport • Baltimore, MD
AGENDA
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- On Saturday, November 20, 2010 the QEM Network
conducted a special one-day follow-up workshop
in Baltimore, MD for institutions that submitted planning grant
or multi-year proposals in the FY 2010 HBCU-UP competition,
whether or not the proposals were funded.
FY 2010 Proposal Follow-up Workshop
November 20, 2010 • The Four Points by Sheraton BWI Airport • Baltimore, MD
AGENDA
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Provide technical
assistance to new grantees through campus visits to observe project
activities and to make recommendations to help ensure that their
projects are unfolding as planned. During the visits, critical
needs identified during the first year of project implementation
will be addressed. The visits also will serve to assist in the development
of strategies to address unanticipated barriers that may have
developed.
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Conduct a special-focused
workshop each
year to build and further strengthen institutional capacity
in STEM. The special workshops will focus respectively on HBCU-UP
targeted infusion and STEM education research proposals; designing
STEM teacher preparation programs that produce graduates well-prepared
to provide high quality STEM instruction at the K-12 level,
particularly in mathematics; and effective STEM instructional strategies.
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The Quality
Education for Minorities (QEM) Network conducted
a two-day workshop on the Integration of mathematics into lower division science courses on Friday-Saturday, October 1-2, 2010 in Memphis, TN.
Workshop for HBCU-UP Grantees on the Integration of Mathematics into Lower Division Science Courses
Memphis, TN • October 1-2, 2010
AGENDA
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- The Quality
Education for Minorities (QEM) Network conducted
a two-day workshop on mathematics teacher preparation on Friday-Saturday, August 28-29, 2009 at the Hilton Jackson hotel in Jackson, MS. The workshop focused on designing teacher preparation programs that produce graduates well-prepared to provide high quality instruction in mathematics at the pre-college level. The workshop focus was on mathematics because of: (1) its critical role in the success of students who pursue degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at the undergraduate level; and (2) the need to eliminate a major impediment to the retention of students in STEM majors at HBCUs caused by their having to enroll in developmental mathematics when they enter college. View Agenda
HBCU-UP grantees were invited to identify and register a two-person team (a mathematics faculty member and an education/mathematics education faculty member) to participate in this two-day professional development workshop. QEM made travel and lodging arrangements and covered the associated expenses for up to 20 two-person institutional teams to participate in the workshop.
WORKSHOP PURPOSE: To explore instructional strategies and practices known to be effective, or that have a high potential to be effective, in enhancing the mathematics achievement of African American and other underrepresented minority pre-college and college freshman-level students. The workshop included an examination of several questions involving pre-service and in-service teacher education in mathematics. For example:
• What should teachers know and be able to do in pre-college mathematics?
• How can mathematical applications be used to create greater student interest
. and achievement in mathematics?
• How can mathematics instruction be enhanced through the use of technology?
• Does the mathematics curriculum for pre-college teachers of mathematics at
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participating institutions comply with the most recent curriculum standards of the
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics?
• What is in the literature regarding K-12 mathematics instruction that relates to
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strategies for improving teacher education in mathematics?
• Do workable strategies exist (e.g., the use of computerized lesson modules,
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Saturday supplementary sessions, or summer mathematics camps) for
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accelerating K-12 student learning in mathematics? |
- QEM conducted
a two-day proposal workshop focused
on Targeted Infusion and Education Research proposals
requesting support from the NSF ’s HBCU-UP
Program. The workshop took place on
Friday and Saturday, October 31-November 1, 2008, at
The Four Points by Sheraton BWI Airport, located at the
BWI Airport, Baltimore, MD. AGENDA
(with presentations)
This workshop
was designed to accommodate 10 STEM faculty members whose
institutions are seeking support for Targeted Infusion
proposals and 15 two-person (1 STEM faculty, 1 Education
faculty) teams whose institutions are seeking support
for Education Research Proposals from HBCU-UP. Institutions
submitting unsuccessful Targeted Infusion or Education
Research proposals in previous HBCU-UP competitions were
encouraged to attend and to bring their reviewer
comments.
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Maintain
a listserv for HBCU-UP Project Directors as well as
links at QEM’s
Website to potential sources of federal and non-federal
support to assist grantee institutions in sustaining and institutionalizing
the successful elements of their HBCU-UP projects.
QEM HBCU-UP WORKSHOPS/EVENTS (March
2006 – December 2009):
QEM received earlier support from NSF to provide technical assistance
to current and potential HBCU-UP grantees in several areas, including:
curricular reform and enhancement; faculty professional development;
student support; research experiences for undergraduates; and scientific
instrumentation to improve instruction.
QEM
Presentations at the Minority Serving Institutions Research Partnership Conference
May 13,
2008MCBAY JONES
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HBCU-UP WORKSHOPS TO DATE
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Location |
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Baltimore MD |
April 21-22, 2006 |
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Atlanta GA |
August 18-19, 2006 |
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New Orleans LA |
October 5-6, 2006 |
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New Orleans LA |
October 7, 2006 |
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Washington, DC |
October 19-20, 2007 |
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New Orleans LA |
June 6-7, 2008 |
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Memphis TN |
September 19-20, 2008 |
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Memphis TN |
September 20, 2008 |
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Jackson MS |
August 28-29, 2009 |
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Baltimore MD |
November 20-21, 2009 |
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Baltimore MD |
November 21, 2009 |
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Memphis TN |
October 1-2, 2010 |
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Atlanta GA |
March 19-20, 2010 |
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Baltimore MD |
November 19-20, 2010 |
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Baltimore MD |
November 20, 2010 |
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 NSF Regional Grants Conference, October 5–6, 2009 - Jackson, MS – Hosted By Jackson State University
For further information on the QEM/HBCU-UP
Project, please contact Shirley McBay, Project Director, at smmcbay1@qem.org or
Althea Burns, Associate, at aburns@qem.org or
via telephone at 202/659-1818. |
