HSI Regional Alliance Meeting

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Location: UCSB's Mosher Alumni House, Board Room, 3rd floor

When: 10:00-1:00pm, Tuesday10/25/2016

Agenda:

  1. Welcome and Quick Intros (Campus, Name, Title - 5mins)
  2. Mario Castellanos, Executive Director, UCSB OEP
  3. Susannah Scott, Chemical Engineering Professor & ESTEEM Director, UCSB
  4. Orly Greenwood, Program Assistant, UCSB OEP
  5. Enrique Guzman, MESA ProgramCoordinator, UCSB OEP
  6. Virginia Estrella, MESA Director, SBCC
  7. Yessica Noriega Ortiz, MESA Director, VC
  8. Bill Hart, HSI STEM Grant Director, VC
  9. Micaela Morgan, K12 Programs Director, UCSB OEP
  10. Eric Nebeker, Grant Writer, UCSB OEP
  11. Adolfo Corral, STEM Transfer Program Coordinator, SBCC
  12. Lisa Rodriguez, Evaluations Coordinator, UCSB OEP
  13. Marilynn Spaventa, Dean of Educational Programs, SBCC
  14. Jens-Uwe Kuhn, Chemistry Professor, SBCC
  15. Gerardo Aldana, Department Chair, UCSB Chican@ Studies
  16. Eliseo Gonzalez, HSI STEM Grant Director, Ventura College
  17. Ofelia Aguirre, Director, UCSB CSEP
  18. SiboneyGuardado, HSI STEM Grant Director, AHC
  19. Glenn Beltz, Associate Dean, UCSB COE
  20. Erica Johnson, P20 Coordinator, UCSB OEP
  21. NSF S-STEM Discussion (S. Scott – 25mins)
  22. New S-STEM program is still called ESTEEM, but much greater emphasis on transfer students and now requires a partnership with CCs
  23. Involves 5 HSIs to support transfer students
  24. Provides financial support to low income students and builds a network of support before, during, and after transferring to any college
  25. New element: has to include an education research component – Prof. Mike Gerber will be working with us on educational research as to the challenges that transfers face
  26. NSF website –
  27. Progress updates
  28. Announcement is up and website is up
  29. Working on press release
  30. Award has arrived on campus – working on developing subcontract documents. Each CC partner is allocated 100 K per year (75 K in direct scholarships and 25 K for student activities such as networking events, travel, etc.)
  31. AHC and SBCC funds go directly to campus. For OC and VC scholarships go to campus and student activities billed to UCSB
  32. First call for UCSB ESTEEM has already happened and due date was yesterday, Oct 24th
  33. Website: esteem.ucsb.edu
  34. Would like individual ESTEEM pages from each of the partners where students can find specific information about ESTEEM at their school
  35. Question – how are funds administered at the CCs? These details are still being worked out
  36. Primary goal of the program is to provide students with financial support
  37. Campuses will need to verify and report back to UCSB every quarter/semester to verify student financial need
  38. ESTEEM executive committee – need confirmation that committee members are willing and able to serve
  39. Steering committee –same as above; one faculty, one representative from each institution
  40. Each campus will need to do a call for applicants – up to each CC campus, awards need to be consistent with student financial needs
  41. Each partner will need to do activities on their campus to make the students feel like a cohort
  42. Annual ESTEEM Day
  43. Need to find a date in spring for this event
  44. Human Research – UCSB has the approval, only requirement is that we need student data without actually knowing the identity for the students, so will have to work closely with CC partners. At the CC we will need STEM student data (since they only need to have interest in engineering)
  45. NSF reporting requirement is for students to fill out surveys. Ofi suggests holding a part of stipend until the student completes survey
  46. Gateway engineering courses that will be accessible to students from all partnering institutions – Glenn Beltz is coordinating this
  47. Intro to comp. programming and problem solving
  48. Intro to mass and energy balances (chem engineering)
  49. Glenn will be meeting with faculty involved with these courses and some potential other courses. Some of the CCs don’t have the key gateway courses needed for entry to UCSB comp./electrical engineering
  50. These gateway courses will allow students to be more prepared to enter engineering at UCSB
  51. These courses will be open to anyone wo wants to take the course online
  52. Courses will be transferrable to many of the UCs but not sure…
  53. UCOP will have articulation details between the UCs for these gateway courses offered at UCSB
  1. Title 5 Grant (G. Aldana – 25mins)
  2. CHST and beyond! Culturally relevant pedagogy lab “TAMUYAL: a STEM outreach pedagogy lab” currently in formative stages
  3. Students will take a STEM concept and nest them within culturally relevant activities (Mesoamerican culture) for intellectual safe space because it is not defined by current country boundaries
  4. Curriculum was initially created for European immigrant male youth. Aldana wants to take an approach that makes education appeal to other ethnicities
  5. Augmented reality environment – apply virtual reality to a local environment (like “Pokemon Go” and “Geocash”)
  6. Creatures will come from Mesoamerican calendar, and students will go and collect them
  7. It is the basis of a citizen science project because when they go capture the creature there will be a sensor for environmental conditions – and the animal will have health factors
  8. There is a residual effect from the virtual experience that can persist in reality.The goal is to have students feel like scientists and consequently envision themselves with a STEM identitythat persists after
  9. Can you see your college/institution participating in this? Colleges and K-12?
  10. This is an opportunity to train staff in culturally relevant STEM activities
  11. They are scalable based on context (grade level)
  12. Campus Updates on HSI and STEM Program related Initiatives (All – 20mins)
  13. VC
  14. Invited to apply for Bill and Melinda gates scholarship grant
  15. Velocidad is in its last year and will be looking for No-Cost Extension
  16. Will be applying for Upward Bound program funding
  17. Will be writing for TitleV grant in May
  18. Was not awarded Title III Grant
  19. OC
  20. Has been awarded the Title III grant
  21. Will work with Cal Lutheran, UCSB, CSUCI
  22. Reaching out to 3rd graders for their Promise Pathways Program
  23. Closing out Title V grant
  24. Just started a SHPE chapter – reached out to SB SHPE. Eliseo is the advisor of OC chapter
  25. SBCC
  26. Closing out sub award with title 5 with CSUCI and will be wrapping it up with a no cost extension
  27. Will be applying for a state grant focusing on ESL
  28. Received Title IIISTEM grant with focus on pedagogy, non-cognitive skills, and faculty development
  29. MESA-
  30. Had opportunity to take UCSB-SI students to conferences – UCSBSI and SHPE gave student some talking points when talking to industry (Celina Lazaro). SACNAS conference (Alyssa Barbosa and Maribel Anguiano).
  31. New Executive Director for MESA.
  32. Will be receiving 25K increase of funds.
  33. Grace Hopper Women in Computing conference – was able to take 14 students
  34. Sending 4 women officers to SHPE conference (8 total)
  35. AHC
  36. Applied for Title III grant but did not receive it, waiting to hear comments
  37. Are hoping to apply for Upward Bound science and math, AHC is taking a lead on it. They currently have a TRIO Program called CAN
  38. Just ended HSISTEM grant Dec 30th
  39. UCSB
  40. Will move forward with the 3rd year of UCSB-SI
  41. SLIP 75K – looks like we will be funded again
  42. Santa Cruz Island visit in June 2017
  43. S.Scott
  44. Looking for opportunities to better support women engineers at AHC and other CCs, but the main issue is critical mass
  45. Interested inestablishing a regional student chapter of Society of Women Engineers; SBCC is trying to start a group
  46. HSI Regional Alliance webpage (M. Castellanos – 20mins)
  47. Outline handout
  48. If the group helps generate content we can populate it onto our webpage
  49. Feedback?
  50. Is there anything in particular that students will utilize?
  51. We do not have K-12 partners in our regional alliance but our focus has been mainly undergrads
  52. Announcements:
  53. REU Submission and SLIP update (M. Castellanos / E. Nebeker – 5mins)
  54. We will know SLIP award by February 1st
  55. Hoping to hear about the REU in the next month or two
  56. Focused on sustaining established cohorts rather than recruiting
  57. Yessica Noriega-Ortiz – this meeting will be last meeting with us, leaving to TRIO SSS Director position at LACC
  58. Ofelia Aguirre, Bill Hart– Happy Birthdays!
  59. HACU San Diego – will be well attended!
  60. We want to present for HSI Regional Alliance Group.
  61. Take 1-2 of our projects and talk about best practices.
  62. NSF and USDA folks are there
  63. AHSIE – let’s do a presentation in Vegas! A lot of the folks at HACU are talking about this conference and it is a much better conference for practitioners.
  64. Proposed outline:
  65. What/who we are
  66. Results of the partnerships
  67. Projects we work on together
  68. Student success across the segments
  69. Connectivity between campuses – getting out of the silos of our own campuses
  70. Faculty support/engagement to provide foundational support for the alliance
  71. Discussion Items:
  72. Resource Development:
  73. Upward Bound (E. Nebeker)
  74. Emphasis on math, science courses and inclusion of an on-campus research experience
  75. Interested in incorporating exposure to mentors who do research
  76. 5-year program (multiple cohort and you can attend more than once)
  77. 60 student @ $4000 a student
  78. Ofi suggests capstone approach – by junior year they can do a 6week research project or a SIMS type program for seniors
  79. Ofi may be able to help with this
  80. Summer has to include math instruction in addition to research experience
  81. Must have a curriculum for math, science, and writing
  82. We will be working with the writing program
  83. SAT/ACT prep
  84. Mario’s comments
  85. We are at capacity with K-12 and would need major funding to expand/increase capacity (hire staff)
  86. Looking at hybrid programs so we can cut costs on housing students on campus
  87. Santa Paula HS and Santa Maria are areas we are looking at
  88. USDA HSI STEM PPT – Erica will get this information from Mario and send out

Save the Dates:

  • Tentative UCSB-Smithsonian student cohort get-together: Sunday November 13thand Sunday December 4th