Sunday 1/12/2014
Intermediate Group #2
9 am
Rich Whittecar: Brief presentation on UTeach program. Started at UT about 15 years
ago. Successful program.
Q&A: William Holt: Capacity of K-12 system to absorb students.
Tim Bralower: Fort Valley. Mr. Crumley. 31 years
Historically black college in Georgia. Since 1983. Cooperative Developmental Energy
Program (CDEP).
Has established national network of high schools. Recruit 7th-8th grade students to join in
9th grade. Minority students (African American, native American, Hispanic). Students
attend Fort Valley, do degree in 3 years. Choice of programs: UNLV, UT Austin, etc.
Fields: Engineering, Science. Use of internships: USGS, EPA. Long-term personal
connections. Alums have positions in high places. Annual meeting of alums and current
students. Pipeline. Funding is major preoccupation: Shell, Chevron are major
contributors. Struggle, do not have endowment. Scholarships. Successful small program,
expensive.
Go over slides of Group 3 and Group 4
Broader impacts:
direct/indirect
they are in the eye of the beholder/reviewer
Some researchers do no broader impacts and get by with it.
“Career” award “broader” means larger than education & outreach. Requires hookup with
science education expert.
JS: Good to tell NSF to encourage broader impacts. Need to do something meaningful.
Using “broader impacts” in NSF is part of action plan.
NSF Rep (name unknown): Reviewers are very critical of proposals. Shift: federal
funding changes. Funding is difficult. Broader impact plan can get a proposal funded,
other things being equal. Advice: Beef up “broader impacts.” Justin is doing data mining.
Other staff providing model for these categories.
WH: What support do national/state agencies provide for its employees to spend some
percentage of work time in STEM programs?
BH: Depends on how faculty time is mandated. How service is evaluated.
GK: Look at broader educational framework. In future, students will only have to have 1
lab course. Will be bringing in other topics: course on Eastern Studies is actually Geo 101
on China. Geoscience can do this.