TCUP Planning Group Report

Upcoming plans:

October 24, 2003 Alu Like TCUP leadership meeting
In September, Doug Knight, Alu Like, presented an internship opportunity for STEM students to John Rand's EE students. When the group was queried, five part-Hawaiian students self-identified. A follow-up meeting is planned for October 24, noon.
October 25 TCUP 3 meeting on Faculty Development.

November 20 NSF site visit to KapCC,. Manono 104, 9-noon, 1-3

December 6 TCUP 4 meeting on Curriculum Innovation and Development

The momentum in our working group warrants further meetings in the spring 2004 semester as we formalize our implementation plan.

October 19-22 Andrew Pak will attend the Conference on Information Technology in Milwaukee. The main focus will be to look into technology that will enhance STEM education at KCC. In particular, he’ll look into the 3D HoloProjection Project and the feasibility of KCC’s involvement in the project. He will become more familiar with the potentials of the "smart classroom" for STEM teaching. Also, Andrew will visit Dr. Evelyn Brown of the University of Houston, an expert in the field of Problem Based Learning, in January 2004.

October 30-November 10, John Rand and Judi Kirkpatrick will attend the AACU Conference on Technology, Learning, and Intellectual Development, and will conduct site visits at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Hampshire College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to lay the groundwork for establishing partnerships with them and to look at their models of innovation and practice. Kirkpatrick will conduct site visits at IUPUI, IUBloomington, 11/12-14 and DeAnza College 11/18-19. Rand will conduct a site visit at the sleep lab at Brown University 11.8.

November 3, 9 a.m. Hawai'i time, team members are going to teleconference from WPI through an Internet2 datalink from UHManoa Webster Hall. All are invited.

November 13 John Rand, John Berestecky, and Bob Franco will be meeting at NSF in Washington DC on to discuss our implementation grant proposal.

November13-15, 2003 John Rand and Bob Franco will be attending the AACU Network for Academic Renewal Conference

We are considering further visits to UNLV, Green River CC, Diablo Valley CC, and the University of Washington. We are currently researching areas outside of Hawaii that have large Native Hawaiian populations as a recruitment area for potential KCC STEM students.

APPENDIX A

Date September 26, 2003 UH Hilo Site Visitors Rand, Kirkpatrick, Pak	Report for STEM Model Practices Site Visit
Pre Contact with SITE	Emailed request to Sonia Juvik; received website, PDF of final implementation grant submission to read.
Letter to Academic Dean, CEO Find Leadership in STEM/NSF	Dr. Sonia Juvik, Professor of Geography, cooperated in inviting others to our day at UHHilo, including Margaret Haig, Dean of Continuing Education & Community Service, Marcia Sakai, Director of School of Business, Diane Higgins, General Advising coordinator, Richard Crowe, Astronomy Professor, Terri Chong, EPSCOR coordinator, XXXX Abrams, Professor of the History of Science, and team leader of STEM 101, students, and others dropped in. All arranged by Sonia Juvik
Faculty Innovation Center	STEM has a set of offices where everyone works. We met in one of their rooms for most of the day.
Research website for unique STEM initiatives	Astronomy and Physics homepage http://www.astro.uhh.hawaii.edu/menu.html
Get campus mission, catalogue.	http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/ (Website in Korean or English)
site visit	Questions
Assessment	How and what have you assessed in the last five years? What do you intend to assess in the next three years? Lots of surveys and assessment being conducted. Small #s. Useful interviews of students are conducted and assessed. See website for surveys, statistics, and analysis.
Faculty Support and Development	How do faculty receive encouragement and support for innovation? Lots of opportunities for faculty to get professional support and development. In fact, they mention that their faculty have been working very hard and maybe they are asking too much of them. Did not tour facilities. Several new science labs on campus already. What are your top curricular development plans for preparing students in STEM for the 21st century? Within grant, year by year, including STEM 101, 2^nd year, observational astronomy 3^rd year . . . UHHilo has acknowledged a serious need for tutoring services for potential STEM students in order for the students to succeed in math and demanding science courses.
Partnerships	What partnerships do you have? 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? Many of their research scientists already have federal and state connections in vulcanology, astronomy, and marine biology. See Cvs of their involved faculty UHHilo suggested that we would want to focus on what can be accomplished during the life of the grant, five years, which would preclude our funding efforts in k-8. They are doing a bit of work with 9-12; however, they suggested that there is substantial money for 9-12 initiatives for the DOE to get on their own. They prefer to spend the money on student intake, support, orientation, acceleration, summer stipends, and faculty and student support at UHHilo. They are considering mandatory orientation and already make it a significant part of their intake for students.
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?
What do we want to see and record?	Possible video, still picture, interviews with students and faculty.
Faculty Innovation Center	We had a very full day in the faculty center, but did not tour the facilities. They have new labs, new library, and an idyllic campus.
Science Center, Math Center	Not accomplished. One thing they pride themselves on is using their whole island as a living lab. "Have labs or classes outside."
Student Research Centers	Active program for students got started in summer '03, continuing in '04. Focused on math and science preparation. Two students from the program met with us for several hours. Faculty described various mentorship partnerships that are ongoing with students.
Internships	Interview students who've done internships. Interview internship coordinators. Not possible. We did, however, interview and spend time with two Native Hawaiian students from Oahu who are STEM majors. They are not doing internships though.
Curriculum Innovation	Seek syllabi and innovators, find learning communities, online components, student portfolios. Descriptions of innovative courses in PDF of full proposal. No evidence, yet of online components or student portfolios. Have just begun "STEM101" course Fall 2003. Are assessing as they go. Astronomy, Biology, and Science Philosophy teachers met and talked with us about their experiences and challenges.
Learning Communities	Seek unique partnering in block scheduling or interdisciplinary teaching. STEM101 is in 6 week modules, interdisciplinary, combining math/science. Good opportunity to have faculty exchange and student exchange. A nice place to go for KapCC students who want to do science in Hilo, i.e. Marine Bio, Vulcanology, Astronomy.
Evaluate if site is potential partnership site	Very open to potential partnerships.
2-3 transfer	Seek potential partnerships for STEM majors to transfer to site. Yes—Pre-Engineering, Astronomy, C.S., liberal arts
Exchange for students Exchange for faculty	Offer 2nd year abroad for students Possible Offer summer or year-long faculty exchange in STEM courses.

submitted by J. Kirkpatrick 10.10.03

Report for STEM Model Practices Site Visit