Sheraton
Columbia Hotel, Columbia, MD, Terrace Ballroom
THURSDAY, August 18, 2005, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Pre-Conference
Workshop
“How to Get a 4.0 in Graduate School”
Donna O. Johnson, Y.C. Chen, Dr. Tamiko Youngblood,
Guaranteed 4.0 Learning System
ITE Building, Lecture Hall VIII, UMBC campus, Breakfast and
lunch will be served.
FRIDAY, August 19, 2005 Sheraton
Hotel
8:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 Welcome
to PROMISE!
Dr.
Renetta G. Tull, PROMISE Program
Director
Introduction of PROMISE Peer Mentors
Welcome
to the Universities in Maryland!
Dr. Arthur Johnson, Maryland AGEP PI, UMBC Provost
Dr. Janet
Rutledge, Co-PI,
UMBC Sr. Associate Dean of the Graduate School
Dr. Johnetta Davis, Co-PI, UMCP Associate
Dean of the Graduate School
Dr. Jordan
Warnick, Co-PI, UMB
Assistant Dean of the Medical School
9:30 Morning
Plenary Session
“The National Impact of
AGEP: You are the Next Generation of
Professors”
Dr.
Roosevelt Johnson, National
Program Director, AGEP, National Science Foundation
10:00 Summer Success Seminars
Workshop 1 (Incoming
Students): Differences between
undergrad and grad school (Class load, Expectations, Academic Excellence
Mindset, Study strategies, How to stay in “A” range)
Christopher Jones,
Assistant Dean of Graduate Students, MIT
Workshop 2 (Continuing Students): Becoming a Leader: Academic Excellence,
Leadership Skills, and Mentoring
Dr.
Howard G. Adams, H.G. Adams Associates, Former GEM Executive Director
11:30 Lunch & Afternoon Address: “Excellence is in your Destiny”
Speaker: Dr.
Calvin Mackie, Associate
Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Tulane University (U.S. Presidential
Mentor)
1:00 –
3:00 Summer Success Seminars
Workshop 1: Guarantee your 4.0
with Time Management
Donna O. Johnson, Y. C. Chen, Dr. Tamiko
Youngblood, Guaranteed 4.0
Learning System
Workshop 2: How to finish your Masters thesis or
Doctoral Dissertation (Based on the TADA “Thesis and Dissertation Accomplished”
Method.)
Dr. Wendy Carter, Co-Founder,
ABD Solution Company
3:00 Images
of Possibility Series
Men’s
Forum:
Women’s
Forum
4:00 Students
Check into Hotel/Break
6:30 PROMISE Awards Dinner
Special Feature: Recognition of PROMISE Ph.D. Candidates and
Graduates
Keynote: Achievements in Research Excellence:
Remarkable Stories of Undergraduates Exploring the Jungles of Africa and Amazon
that have Resulted in Novel Discoveries in Biology and Medicine.
Speaker: Dr.
Eloy Rodriguez, Cornell University, James A. Perkins
Professor and Chair in Environmental Sciences and Biology, Associate
Director of Medical Schools, Associate Director of the Center for Complementary
and Integrative Medicine, Director of Cornell's Chemistry Lab in the Dominican
Republic and Amazon Field Lab in Peru and Cornell's Multidisciplinary
International Research Training (MIRT) Program
9:00 Peer Mentors’ host evening
entertainment (off-site)
Speakers
and special guests hospitality reception (Hospitality Suite)
SATURDAY, August 20, 2005 Sheraton
Hotel
8:00 Peer
Mentors’ Breakfast roundtables
8:30 PROMISE: The Year in Review
Gloria Casilda Anglon, Assistant
Director, UMCP Office of Graduate Recruitment, Retention, and Diversity, UMCP
PROMISE Co-Coordinator
9:00 Networking
and Managing Relationships, An Important Step at Every Level
Dr. Howard G. Adams
10:00 Preparation for the
Professoriate Seminars
Workshop 1: Effective Teaching: Balancing Teaching
and Career Demands (Includes effectively teaching your first class, overcoming
fear, being organized, coordinating with the department’s goals, large lecture
and small classroom discussion strategies)
Dr. Spencer Benson,
Director, Center for Teaching Excellence
University
of Maryland College Park
Workshop 2: Start Early: Tips That You’ll Need to
Prepare for the Faculty Job Search
Dr. Christopher D.
Geiger, University of Central Florida
12 noon Lunch: “Reflections: Looking Back to Move Forward”
Report from the seminars by
Workshop Recorders (chosen from among participants at the beginning of each
workshop.)
Q&A
Moderator: Jill Pegues, UMB
PROMISE Coordinator
2:00 Adjourn and “on your own”
activities at the Columbia Mall