October 17-18, 2003 Marriott Hotel Judi Kirkpatrick, Bob Franco, John Rand, Leon Richards	Report for STEM QEM Workshop
Pre Contact with Workshop	Bob Franco notified KapCC team and QEM Workshop leaders of our intent to participate.
Leadership in STEM/NSF/QEM	QEM = Quality Education for Minorities. They received a three year leadership grant to help TCUP planning grant recipients to further develop the implementation grant proposal.
Contact staff leaders.	Dr. Shirley M. McBay, Project Director Dr. J. Arthur Jones, Senior Associate Ms. Althea Burns, Associate QEM Network 1818 N Street, NW, Suite 350 Washington DC 20036 202-659-1818 (o) 202-659-5408 (fax)
QEM website STEM initiatives	http://qemnetwork.qem.org/mse.html
Get campus mission, catalogue.	The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network has received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation in support of leadership development in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) at the Nation's Tribal Colleges. QEM's project is designed to further the goals of the Foundation's Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) .While the project's proposed activities focus on Tribal Colleges due to the particular challenges they face, all institutions eligible for TCUP will be invited to participate in project activities
When at workshop	Overview
TCUP Goals Shirley McBay	Dr. McBay spoke on tcup goals in curriculum, faculty professional development, undergraduate research and community service opportunities, academic enrichment, infusion of technology to enhance STEM instruction, collaborations, support for students, ("What are they going to do?"), and other activities for instruction, as being key ingredients in an implementation grant proposal.
New courses Shirley McBay	Is the course being introduced, modified or replaced? What are innovative pedagogical strategies, techniques, or practices to be incorporated? **Build on and develop awareness of what others have done and give evidence (references) that show we have done this. **If techniques and practices have been shown effective elsewhere that we plan to adapt or modify, show evidence of our awareness of that. Have plans for assessing what we're proposing. Have courses that have the potential for replication.
Faculty Development Shirley McBay`	Describe and Identify: # faculty involved, department of faculty to be trained/prepared, nature of training/preparation Describe and Identify: Extend members of STEM and science education have participated in "joint planning." # of faculty in professional development on acquiring of enhanced disciplinary competency and currency Amount of project funds to support faculty release time, support staff, course load reduction, and research/teaching assistance to enable faculty to engaged in institutional reform ID=Kemameha for "How to teach Hawaiian students" Buy out of course to mentor students? Development Plan that includes students going to professional meetings, giving poster sessions, being critiqued.
Student Learning Shirley McBay	Current/projected # of minority STEM in actual supervised research Current/projected # of minority STEM students receiving financial support. Expected gpa for students in STEM: 3.0 30%=equipment for labs/classrooms, linked to plan
Goals, Objectives, Timeline Shirley McBay	3 goals with 6 objectives that are measurable Status current STEM infrastructure Existing Research about underrepresented minorities Show yearly objectives in numbers Impact of STEM offerings on Institution Management Structure: communicate throughout institution. How will we keep everyone informed? Difference of 5 years on institution Advisory Committee (6-8 meet 2x/year in year 1. Promote in communities, give them an honorarium of $425/day) Strong formative and substantive Evaluation as the project unfolds Evidence of Institutional Commitment External Evaluator for Independent Assessment annually. Internal Evaluator/data manager Decide who these people will be. Others paid in the grant: PI Full-time manager, day by day Data collector Internal Advisory committee Someone from the budget office Hold regular meetings with all
Weakness of non-funded proposals J. Arthur Jones	Spelling/grammar errors Make every sentence count. See page 7 of tcup guidelines. Goals unclear, no measurable objectives. Strategies to meet objectives is the essence of what people look at: Strategies: What will we do? Key: course, faculty, time period, how Key: show experience we or others have had. ID strategies that will work. Target audience: which students, which faculty? HAVE MORE THAN MINIMAL SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS FOR RESEARCH AND PAPERS AND MEETINGS Budget narrative Cost-effective Baseline data Current students starting from Cite research that has worked How do we show things have worked? Sustainability: Adapt or Expand How will we disseminate Results Newletters, Pacific Ccs, website, conference papers, other NSFNASA foundations. How do we tie thie with others? Describe this in proposal Reviewers will not find out about KapCC unless we include a brief profile. Need Evaluation plan.
Reviewers: what do they do? J. Arthur Jones	Start in good mood ++ attitude little things: deadline, within guidelines, technical aspects, # of appendices, eligibility to apply? Categories with points Logical, well-developed Show creative and unique approaches to meet needs. Show other successes. Integrity Originality, not cut/paste of other proposals Signify # of students and researchers Serve to increase access to education, remove barriers, recruit indigenous into STEM Geography is major issue, urban/rural/remove/native cultural approach is valid and honored way. Strategic partnerships Cultural understanding and sensitivity to Hawaiian culture. Sensitive, not exploitative. Letters of support, scanned in and part of application w/letterhead. Not emails.
MERIT REVIEW CRITERIA J. Arthur Jones	PROJECT MUST HAVE: INTELLECTUAL MERIT BROADER IMPACT This needs to be in the executive summary and in HEADLINES throughout proposal.
Merit Review Intellectual merit J. Arthur Jones	Advance knowledge and understanding Qualified key Personnel Creative and unique Well-conceived and organized Has needed resources "Hypothesis to NSF" ok to fail advancing knowledge Annual Progress Report "Cooperative Agreement"
Merit Review Broader Impact J. Arthur Jones	Promote teaching, training and learning Broadens participation of underrepresented groups Enhance infrastructure for research and education Broadley disseminated Societal Benefits Suggestions from J.Arthur Parents in QEM, M&SC to parents w/NSF stipend, minimum wage, 4xyear/2 1/2 days ID students early in pipeline ID Target Audience, Neighborhood Education Watch, see Jacksonville FLA PTATC/PSIC Charter Schools, Hawaiian Civic Clubs, other non-traditional places
General ideas/discussions	UHHilo Hawaii Public Helath w/400 positions Pap Olelo Kahi/Traditional Healing Dr. Fukino, Department of Public Health CNAJ Kamanao Crabbe, Clinical Psych TSET EXCITE CAMP Apply for other NSF grants! Budgets and TSET Evaluation Tool Submission through NSF Fastlane Tool