Undergraduate STEM Interventions with Industry (USI2) Partners Meeting

Tuesday, March 24, 2015 to Wednesday, March 25, 2015

This meeting is by invitation only.

BHEF’s Undergraduate STEM Interventions with Industry (USI2) representatives will present overviews on their sites, to include selections of high-impact practices. The USI2 network of businesses and BHEF member academic institutions is part of BHEF’s work funded by the National Science Foundation. USI2engages business to increase the number of and support community college students in STEM who transfer to four-year institutions to complete their undergraduate STEM degree.

For more information about BHEF’s NSF award, click here.
For an attendee list for the event, click here.
 

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

2:00 PM Welcome and Introductions

2:15 PM USI2 Consortium Overview

  • Debbie Hughes, senior director, Higher Education and Workforce, BHEF

2:30 PM Project Overviews (Speed Presentations)

3:15 PM Consortium Research Strategy

  • Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick, research scientist, NORC
  • Kristen Neishi, research scientist, NORC

3:30 PM Project Data Collection
A deep-dive on CUSTEMS, administrative record data, national surveys, program assessments, interviews, and focus groups.
Facilitators:

  • Nana Lowell, director, Office of Educational Assessment, University of Washington
  • Lynne Molter, professor and chair, Department of Engineering, Swarthmore College
  • Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick, research scientist, NORC
  • Kristen Neishi, research scientist, NORC

4:15 PM Joint Consortium Outcomes Group Discussion

4:30 PM Day One Wrap-Up

  • Debbie Hughes, senior director, Higher Education and Workforce, BHEF

6:00 PM Welcome Dinner
 

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

8:30 AM Welcome

  • Brian Fitzgerald, CEO, BHEF

Overview of NSF Strategic Priorities and Alignment to BHEF Grant

  • Susan Singer, program director, NSF

9:00 AM Using Research to Design Programs That Improve Retention and Student Success A dialogue on high-impact practices proven effective in terms of supporting student retention, persistence, and success.
Facilitator: Debbie Hughes, senior director, Higher Education and Workforce, BHEF
Presenters:

  • Beth Ambos, executive officer, Council on Undergraduate Research
  • Audrey Hovannesian, associate director of assessment, California State University Office of the Chancellor
  • Robert Kelchen, assistant professor of higher education, Department of Education Leadership, Management and Policy, Seton Hall University
  • Timothy Schermer, director of institutional research, Augustana College, and author of The Senior Capstone: Transformative Experiences in the Liberal Arts

10:45 AM Common Definitions for Embedded Program Interventions
Facilitator: Audrey Hovannesian, associate director of assessment, California State University Office of the Chancellor

11:45 AM Industry’s Perspective – What This Means for Me?
Facilitator: Steve Barkanic, senior vice president and chief program officer, BHEF
Presenters:

  • Dean Amhaus, president & CEO, The Water Council
  • Matt Daniels, senior manager for education relations, The Boeing Company
  • Michael Fowler, vice president, Information Management, NextEra Energy Resources
  • Jeff Snyder, vice president, Cyber Programs, Raytheon Company
  • JoAnn Winson, program director, Global University Programs, IBM

12:45 PM Working Lunch Breakout Groups

1:45 PM Project Site Implementation Plan Presentations

  • 12 minute presentations with Q&A

3:15 PM Wrap-Up and Next Steps