AGEP Meeting, December 2009
MEETING ARCHIVE
AGEP National Conference II
December 10-11, 2009
Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel
Washington, DC
Agenda and Presentations
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2009
7:30 – 8:30 a.m.
Morning Refreshments & Networking
8:30 – 8:40 a.m.
Welcome: Yolanda George, AAAS
8:40 – 8:50 a.m.
Meeting Overview: James Wyche, NSF
Introduction: William Eckberg, NSF
8:50 – 9:30 a.m.
Perspectives on Faculty Diversity: Research & Market Forces
Shirley Malcom, AAAS
Malcom presentation
9:30 – 10:10 a.m.
AGEP National Evaluation Study Report
Carlos Rodriguez, AIR
Rodriguez presentation
10:10 – 10:30 a.m.
AGEP Campus Climate Visitation Team Report
Robert Lichter, NSF HRD consultant
Lichter presentation
10:30 – 10:45 a.m.
Networking Break
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.
New HRD Undergraduate & Graduate Activities
James Wyche & William Eckberg
Wyche presentation
- HSI
- Male Academic Enhancement
- JAM: Format Change
- TSR
11:00 – 11:15 a.m.
Introduction to TSR: A National Database & Tracking of URM STEM
PhDs
Carlos Rodriguez & Jim Brown, AIR consultant
11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Introduction of TSR Software System/Live Demo
Jim Brown & Excalibur
12:00 – 12:20 p.m.
AGEP Budget & Status Report
Al Wilson and Victor Santiago, NSF
12:20 – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch & Discussion
STEM Faculty Hiring: Where Did All the URM PhDs Go?
Fitzgerald Bramwell, University of Kentucky
Bramwell presentation
1:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Breakout Sessions:
Recruitment, Training, Tracking, Retention & Promotion
- Transitioning and monitoring URM PhDs to postdoctoral and junior faculty positions
Topics/Probes: Identify and describe elements of most successful approaches and rationale for strategies taken - Strategies for CAREER program outreach and increasing participation for URM junior faculty
Topics/Probes: Discussion with NSF CAREER program officers and a CAREER awardee
Moderator: Fitzgerald Bramwell
Speakers:- Susan Kemnitzer, NSF Directorate for Engineering.
Kemnitzer presentation - Kathleen McCloud, NSF Directorate for Mathematics and Physical Sciences.
McCloud presentation - Parag Chitnis, NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences.
Chitnis presentation - Eugene Billiot, NSF Career Awardee, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi.
Billiot presentation
- Susan Kemnitzer, NSF Directorate for Engineering.
- Challenges and Successes: Recruitment, Entry & Retention of URM scholars in the Professoriate
Topics/Probes: Identify 3-5 top challenges and current strategies used to Meet achieve goals; Identify & describe elements of successful approaches
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Reports & Discussion from Various Break-Out Sessions
5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Networking Reception
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2009
7:00 – 8:00 a.m.
Morning Refreshments & Networking
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
AGEP II: An Enhanced Big ‘P’ Model
James Wyche and William Eckberg
- AGEP STEM
- AGEP SBE
- New AGEP = integration w/SBE
- Professoriate Transition Models
The Way Forward
- Future solicitations; Budgets
- All the sciences together
- AGEP II Program Components
- National Goals & Metrics
- TSR Participants: Sloan, Gates, Ford, GEM, SREB,
NIH, NSF-AGEP, NSF-IGERT; NSF coordination
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Small Group Sessions
Three-four small groups will discuss same topic and report on their discussions. There are two parts to each small group discussion.
Part One: How should an Alliance work?
Topics/Probes:
- What has not worked in building your Alliance?
- What are the top 3-5 examples of Alliance success? And why?
Part Two: What is the added value of an alliance for enhancing faculty diversity?
Topics/Probes:
- Sources of challenges to implementing and sustaining STEM faculty diversity? Solutions?
- Campus evidence that Alliance has enhanced faculty diversity?
- If not, why? If so, how? What is the best way to leverage an Alliance to improve the campus climate?
11:00 a.m. –12:00 p.m.
Report Back from Small Group Sessions
12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Lunch & Update on AAAS Project
Yolanda George & Richard Weibl, AAAS
Patricia Campbell and Tom Kibler, Campbell-Kibler, Inc.
1:15 – 2:00 p.m.
Closing Remarks: AAAS
Our AGEP Commitment: Wanda Ward, NSF
Ward presentation