HSI Regional Networking Luncheon

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Location: UCSB's Mosher Alumni House, Haughton Living Room

When: 10:00-1:00pm, Friday 05/08/2015

Bill Hart

Virginia Estrella

Erik Nebeker

Jan Schultz

Jens-Uwe Kuhn

Marilyn Spaventa

Erica Johnson

Mario Castellanos

Phyllis Brady

Agenda:

1. Welcome and Quick Intros (Campus, Name, Title)

2. Housekeeping:

  • Change Name: HSI Regional Alliance (of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties), others?
  • Everyone is fine with this name
  • Bi-monthly beginning in August, 2.5-3 hours
  • Everyone is fine with the length of time
  • Suggestions for best day of the week.
  • Erica will send a doodle poll (after finals)
  • Calendar meetings, 2-3, 3-4 months in Advance, etc.

3. Campus Updates on HSI and/or STEM Program related Initiatives (5 minutes for each campus)

  • Bill Hart
  • Partnering with CSUCI on HSI grant “A.l.a.s”, Spanish for Wings (changes before I started tracking..)
  • Provides PD by CSUCI faculty of VC faculty and more articulation of the curriculum between VC and CSUCI
  • 3rd year of grant and CUSCI have already met most of their goals.
  • next steps are to look for external funding to leverage for continuing services to students
  • Virginia Estrella
  • Noche de ciencias – about 150 participants!
  • 25 SBCC students volunteer
  • Virginia has notes - please share with group
  • Jan Schultz
  • Discover Science day
  • Between 600-800 participants from all over the county
  • Piloted a math boot camp over spring break – HS seniors
  • 3 day intensive training where students who did not pass their assessment were given diagnostics based on assessment
  • tutors came in and gave them specific coursework based on their weak points
  • almost all assessed at appropriate level or higher
  • Mario
  • Maybe make some plans to connect this math assessment (MDTP) to our Pathways students in collaboration with SBCC
  • Jens
  • Recently able to get the S-STEM proposal funded (who?)
  • Also have a sub award with CSUCI on their title v grant (project ACCESSO) going into the last year

Trying to shift gears in the embedded research projects

  • Biology, Chemistry, Marine sci, Env. Sci, Physics
  • Focus on getting grants to sustain projects

Need more faculty on board (they are hesitant to give up lab time)

Need to embed smaller parts of research projects within their courses that donot need a ton of curriculum development

Who is doing the assessment and evaluation?

  • Struggling with getting math projects on board
  • Marilyn Spaventa

CC Campuses have a lot Student Success and Support Program (SSSP)

  • and Equity funding for student support
  • Money is categorized so it is difficult to use – want more sustainable use, not one time events

Number of activities will take place next year

  • Professional development for faculty
  • Workshops for students- decreasing the gender gap
  • Pilot: Faculty-student cohort groups
  • I-Path: launch in the fall giving students who test in with college level english and math the opportunity to (…?)
  • Developing a logic model for all the programs
  • Erica
  • Simplycast – send information out everyone again

(Robo-calls need to be set up)

  • WOW week Friday September 25th, ESB 1001
  • Phyllis Brady
  • MESA Prelims and Regionals

Students get an opportunity to work with faculty and grad students

Event planning professional development

  • MEP Banquet

Phyllis would love to host cc students who are transferring

May 16th, Corwin Pavillion

  • MESA will cover their dinner
  • Mario
  • Smithsonian DC project – still in the recruiting process
  • 14-20 students, 1 yr minimum
  • Smithsonian will develop a weeklong curriculum

4. Discussion Item: Symposium on Best (and almost a best) Practices

  • Suggested dates: Friday, November 6th or 13th), UC Santa Barbara
  • Send this out to the group to get a final tally via Doodle Poll
  • Outline topics for discussion, see attached handout.
  • Internal (regional) symposium
  • 1 adhoc meeting in the summer for us all to narrow down our topics for presentation
  • Shared Ideas:
  • Marylin – Topic 1 – Addressing the gender gap in STEM (Physical sciences)

Express to success program

  • Bill Hart –Topic 2- How to evaluate High Impact Practices – presenting a problem
  • UCSB- Micaela Morgan with HERG

Mario will reach outto Micaela to talk about Higher Education Research Group

  • Defining and frame real issues which effect our campuses
  • Change symposium to Best Practices + Challenges
  • Marilyn - Frame the general things that all the campuses are trying to do so we don’t have to all speak to everything
  • Create a matrix of what each campus is doing in advance for participants to use as a reference
  • We will create the matrix and share as a google doc
  • Need to set up method of identification so we know who has edited/entered what on the google doc

5. Discussion Item: Funding Opportunities (Eric Nebeker, Ph.D.)

  • NSF “Dear Colleagues”
  • Department of Ed. HSI-Title III Part F (STEM Articulation)
  • CCs are not eligible for the title III while they have the title v but can participate in a collaborative
  • Hope to collaborate on a proposal, UCSB will take the lead
  • There will be a competitive preference
  • Absolute priorities: STEM and articulation (transfers!)
  • Advocate CCS for students – how do we expose our students to that college?
  • Ad Hoc committee to work on proposal idea.
  • Is anyone administering the programs listed on the handout and interested in pursuing NSF funding?
  • SBCC– may applying to LSAMP in December
  • UCSB- has S-STEM, and LSAMP (CAMP, but it is through UCI and they are not an HSI), REU (CCs send students to UCSB REU)
  • Meet over the summer?
  • We will put 3 or 4 dates on a doodle poll
  • Week of June 8th-12th

6. Other Items/Agenda Items for Fall Meeting/Ad Hoc Committee Mtgs