1. Howard University VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016
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Howard University VIP Consortium Meeting ● May 12-13, 2016
Charles Kim

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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)
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Success(es)
Anecdote(s)
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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.
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5. 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)

6. 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)