Conference Agenda

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM   Reception
Alumni Room

Thursday, April 27, 2006

7:45 AM - 8:30 AM   Breakfast Buffet
Chancellor’s Ballroom

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM   Welcome
Henry Frierson, SBES PI & Program Director of UNC-Chapel Hill
Steve Allred, Executive Associate Provost, UNC-Chapel Hill
Linda Dykstra, Dean of the Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Patricia White, Program Director, Directorate for Social and Economic
Sciences, NSF & SBES Alliance Coordinator

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM            SBES Vision for Broadening Participation and SBES Alliances
Wanda E. Ward, Deputy Assistant Director, Directorate for
Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, NSF

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM            SBES Alliances and NSF AGEP (Alliances for Graduate
Education and the Professoriate)
Roosevelt Johnson, Program Director, Directorate for Educational and Human Resources, Division of Human Resources Development, NSF
Chancellor’s Ballroom

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM   Break

10:15 AM – 12:00 PM            What We Have Learned Thus Far Through our SBES Alliances

Chancellor’s Ballroom

12:00 PM – 1:15 PM   Luncheon
Old Well Room

 

  1:15 PM – 2:30 PM   Capacity for Broadening Participation in SBES Research
Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites

  • Moderator and Discussant—Rogelio Saenz, Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University at College Station
  • Charles Becker, Professor of Economics, Duke University
  • Paula McClain, Professor of Political Science, Duke University
  • Larry Stevens, Professor of Psychology, Northern Arizona University
  • Rob Neff, Assistant Professor of Geography & Environmental Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Chancellor’s Ballroom

 2:30 PM – 3:15 PM            SBES Alliances and Undergraduate Institutions – Opportunities for Collaboration with Top Producers of Underrepresented Minority SBES Bachelor Recipients
         Myra Burnett, Vice Provost, Spelman College
Chancellor’s Ballroom

 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM   Break

 3:30 PM – 4:30PM         Building a National SBES Alliance Network
Gloria Chun, UC-SBES Alliance Program Director, University of California at Berkeley and UC-DIGSSS Alliance
Chancellor’s Ballroom

 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM            Alliance Breakout Group Discussions
(Opportunities for collaborations across alliances, the integration of undergraduate students/institutions and formation of a national alliance network)

  • Atlantic Coast SBES Alliance

Chancellor’s Ballroom/East

  •  Collaborative Research: CUNY/Michigan Alliance

Chancellor’s Ballroom/West

  • Diversifying Graduate Education in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBES)

North Parlor

  • Northwestern AGEP for SBES

Club Room

  • UC-Diversity Initiative for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences

South Parlor

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM   Dinner
Speaker—Anne C. Petersen, University of Minnesota, and Global Philanthropy Alliance
Hill Ballroom North/Central

Friday, April 28, 2006

 7:45 AM – 8:30 AM   Breakfast Buffet
Chancellor’s Ballroom

 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM      Preparing Future SBES Faculty

  • Moderator—Orlando Taylor, Vice Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, and PI & Director of the Howard University SBES Project
  • Ansley Abraham, Director, Doctoral Scholars Program, Southern Regional Education Board
  • Kenneth Pepion, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Fort Lewis College and Regional Director for the Compact on Faculty Diversity
  • Ann Pruitt Logan, Professor Emerita, Ohio State University and Founding Director of the Preparing Future Faculty Program

 9:45 AM -10:15 AM            SBES Alliances Evaluations and Measures of Success
Yolanda George, Deputy Director, Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Chancellor’s Ballroom

10:15 AM -10:30 AM   Break

10:30 AM –11:15 PM            Alliance Breakout Group Discussion
                                          (Contributions of social science knowledge for broadening participation, potential for expanding to non-top 25 institutions, indicators of institutional transformation, & next steps)
Chancellor’s Ballroom

11:15 AM – 12 NOON            Reports from Breakout Sessions

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM         Luncheon
Speaker – Courage and  Change in Higher Education, Ronald Walters, Director, African American Leadership Institute & Distinguished Leadership Scholar Professor, Government and Politics, University of Maryland at College Park
Chancellor’s Ballroom

 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM   Wrap-up & Adjournment

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