Howard University VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Institution Logo here Howard University VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016 Charles Kim ckim@howard.edu

Small institution Logo here Numbers The Institution Enrollment 10,002 (6,688[UG] + 1,837 [GRAD] + 1,477 [1st Yr Prof] Student body 83.8 %(African American), 12.5 % (International) , 1.1% (Asian), and 1% (White and/or Latinos) Diversity ECE: 119 (86 Male and 33 Female) VIP First term students enrolled __45___ Number of teams __7___ most recent term __1___ upcoming term Enrollment __45___ Diversity by ethnicity _African Americans + Internationals________________ by major _CHEM(3), CS (7), CV (3), ECE (22), ME (9), MATH(1)__ by year _SR(18), JR (3), SP (3), FR (21) __ (FR, SO, JR, SR) Small institution Logo here

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Small institution Logo here Key Factors to Success Spread (and Evangelize) any time at any chance Engage instructors and professors – they need “Education” and “Research” Components Make the VIP framework beneficial to students and professors Grass Root Approach – Make it useful and it will be sought. Small institution Logo here

Challenges and Possible Strategies Ownership of faculty & student leader Positive Impact: (1) National level competition, (2) Intellectual Property Negative Impact: (1) Not Research based project; (2) Final Semester of Senior students Strategies One-to-one meeting with professors and evangelize VIP (with the actual benefit for them) Grass Root Approach: Make VIP truly useful to students so that they push faculty Broken Sequence in Substitutable Course Negative Impact: Students after 1 semester stop participating and wait for the next one Positive Impact: Students keep participating without earning credits Encouragement to join national and international competition Similar and Competing STEM programs on campus Positive: Possible collaboration for synergy Negative: No collaboration and indifference --- No professional Assessor yet Any good success story of co-operation? Looking for an assessor of another VIP institution (of similar or contrasting situation)

Opportunities More true VIP teams 4 (increased by 1) as of May 2016 (Intruder, Slate8, Radio Telescope, and Dopes) Intercollegiate VIP Framework – First attempt in Spring 2016 MSU UMBC Expansion Plan Capital Area VIP - U. of DC, MSU, UMD National VIP-HBCU ECE + CS merge to EECS: More students would join VIP teams Fall 2016 Expected New Teams From Other Majors ME CV – Earthquake Monitoring PHYS – Cubesat (along with Radio Telescope)