TCUP STEM Liaison Meeting with Judith Vergun, UHManoa TCUP PI

Date January 26, 2004 UH Manoa Post 105AB Site Visitors Rand, Kirkpatrick	Report for STEM Model Practices Site Visit
Pre Contact with SITE	Emailed request to Judith Vergun.
Letter to Academic Dean, CEO Find Leadership in STEM/NSF	Dr. Judith Vergun, PI UHManoa TCUP met for two hours with Kirkpatrick and Rand to discuss their implementation grant and to look at possible collaborations and partnerships
Faculty Innovation Center	In POST 132, a student center has developed for multi-media development. Approximately 12 UHManoa faculty are currently participating in the STEM/TCUP program, mentoring 22 undergraduate students and working with 12 h.s. students in summers.
Research website for unique STEM initiatives	website not available under construction Hawai‘i Kumu Ola: Source of Knowledge Program School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology 1680 East-West Road, Post Building 105AB UHManoa, Honolulu, HI 96822 Judith Vergun 808-956-5902 vergun@hawaii.edu Kalai Castro 808-956-9594 cristin@hawaii.edu Program Director (APT)
Get campus mission, catalogue.	http://www.hawaii.edu/ (Website in Korean or English)
site visit	Questions
Assessment	Working with BANNER to improve student ethnicity reporting. In 2nd year of program: Student interns (22) being paid $800/month ($1600/month in summer) Fill out a monthly time sheet. All academic courses have a mid-term report. Student h.s. interns (12) being paid in summer $1600/mo. from Charter Hawaiian Language HS Halau O Kamana. Providing summer culturally rich eco system training in summer. Long term tracking system.
Faculty Support and Development	How do faculty receive encouragement and support for innovation? Faculty receive letter from Vergun inviting participation in program to work with student interns. Funds pay for tutors and to send student interns to preset at professional society meetings. Brought in 'LEARN MATH SUCCESSFULLY GUARANTEED' summer seminar for students and faculty, with Michael Little Crow, Oregon State Univesity Math Instructor and Learning Specialist. 7/14-8/1. M-TH 9-noon. Features: 1. ID Personal Learning Styles 2. Reduce Math and Test Anxiety 3. Math Inventory to identify mental blocks to learning 4. Graphing Calculator workshops--solve problems the "easy way" learn how to use modern technology to do modern math. Local problem sets for mathematics are a significant need according to Vergun. Near peer tutoring services for potential STEM students are available in POST 132.
Partnerships	What partnerships do you have? For summer program, many Oregon State University contacts are being used including Michael Littlecrow for Math, Communications Training and multi-media development of Hawaiian Science initiatives, GIS training. At OSU, from 1990-2004, Vergun has overseen a program for Native Americans where 2499 have been trained Summer training: Charles Alexander TIME for KIDS. Have they been established intentionally, formally? How did this come about? What works in your partnerships? Can we see it? How do you know? What doesn't work? Why? The partnerships Dr. Judith Vergun brings to the tcup program have been working at OSU for 14 years. Program relies on faculty providing internship opportunities for students. Partnership with Halau o Kamana HS for students in h.s. summer intern program. An innovative program that provides intensive communication and leadership training for academic environmental scientists is now accepting applications for up to 20 fellowships in 2004. Leopold Leadership Training Model The Aldo Leopold Leadership Program (ALLP) was launched five years ago with the goal of improving the flow of accurate, credible scientific information to policy makers, the media and the public by training outstanding academic environmental scientists to be better communicators of complex scientific information. The program is named for Aldo Leopold, a renowned environmental scientist who communicated his scientific knowledge simply and eloquently. His writings, including his 1949 book, A Sand County Almanac, are credited with infusing the emerging conservation movement with good science and wisdom. Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellows participate in intensive training that takes place in two separate one week sessions and features "hands on," interactive modules lead by media and policy specialists, leading scientists and business leaders. The focus of the training is on how to communicate effectively with non-scientists in terms they can understand and use. The deadline for applications for 2004 fellowships is Monday, August 25, 2003. Detailed application information is available at www.leopoldleadership.org. "Academic scientists typically communicate their new findings through scientific publications or professional scientific society meetings -- in other words, to other researchers who share a common scientific language and framework," said Jane Lubchenco, Distinguished Professor of Zoology at Oregon State University who co-founded the program and co-chairs the steering committee. "It is increasingly important for scientists be able to communicate effectively to non-scientists, such as legislators, journalists, business leaders and citizens." "Environmental scientists have valuable knowledge that should be available to citizens and policy makers as they make choices about the future of our planet and our communities. It is vitally important to all of us that scientists be able to provide accurate information in plain language and in the context of everyday life to those who are determining our environmental policies and practices," Lubchenco added. Sixty scientists from 26 states and a wide range of environmental disciplines, from biology and plant pathology to civil engineering and atmospheric sciences, were selected as Leopold Leadership Fellows between 1999 and 2001. Partnership with Polynesian voyaging Society and Research Vessel Kilo Moana
Diversity	How diverse is your STEM student cohort? How diverse is your faculty? Have you done anything to encourage this or has this evolved over time? What are your future plans to develop a diverse STEM student cohort? Plans are evolving.
What do we want to see and record?	Student Media Center. Summer math training. Student Interns.
Science Center, Math Center	POST is a brand new building, still negotiating space for offices and centers for learning. POST 132 is available for tcup interns.
Student Research Centers	Internships for students is taking most of tcup money.
Internships	Need to get more information on who's doing the internships, how it's going.
Curriculum Innovation	Summer internships on ecosystems and environmental science. Devon Kyle, Brain Tree Studio. Prgram Model: Native American Marine and Space Program.
Learning Communities	interns can meet each other w/tutoring in POST 132.
Evaluate if site is potential partnership site	Open to collaboration.
2-3 transfer	Internships are available to KapCC students
Exchange for students Exchange for faculty	transfer available and

submitted by J. Kirkpatrick 01.28/04