2025 MS-CC Annual Meeting
Save the date to join us in Nashville, TN, May 28-30, 2025.
The Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC) is pleased to announce that we will be hosting our third Annual Meeting at the Loews Nashville at Vanderbilt Plaza in Nashville, Tennessee, from May 28-30, 2025.
The MS-CC Annual Meeting is a gathering of your peers, practitioners, community- builders, advocates, and leaders from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), tribal colleges and universities (TCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs), and the broader community of minority-serving institutions (MSIs).
Save the date and plan to join us in Nashville for this once-a-year opportunity to come together and create a space where HBCUs and TCUs lead the conversation around sustainable campus-level IT capabilities for data-intensive education and research programs.
Thanks to our NSF funding, the MS-CC can provide limited travel support to registrants from HBCUs and TCUs. Travel support covers the registration fee, roundtrip travel to Nashville (air/train/mileage), and two nights’ lodging (May 28 and 29) at the Loews Nashville at Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel. Travel support details will be made available via the MS-CC Travel Support Acceptance Form when registration goes live.
We will update this page with additional details in the coming months, including the opportunity to submit a presentation proposal, registration details, program agenda, travel reimbursement requests, and more.
The MS-CC Annual Meetings are made possible thanks to support and funding from the National Science Foundation under awards #2137123 and #2234326.
Call for Presenters
The Call for Presenters is now closed. Proposals were accepted through November 30, 2024. Topics for submission focused on:
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Climate Science
- Cybersecurity
- Leadership
- Research & Campus Technology
Program Planning Committee
The 2025 MS-CC Annual Meeting program planning committee brings together community volunteers to help review proposals and shape the program.
| Name | Title | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Nizar Alsharari | Professor, Department of Accounting, Finance, and Entrepreneurship | Jackson State University |
| Bobby Clark | Director, IT Solution & Vendor Management | Clemson University |
| Dionne Curbeam | VP of IT and CIO | Coppin State University |
| Donna Hayden | IT Advisor | Alcorn State University |
| Royal Lost His Blanket-Stone Jr | Lakota Studies Dept Chair/Director | Sinte Gleska University |
| David Lockett | Co-PI, Grants Proposal Development and Awards Management Specialist | Meharry Medical College |
| Atma Sahu | Professor of Mathematics | Coppin State University |
| Martha Ravola | Professor, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Department of Human Sciences & Director ASU SNAP-Ed | Alcorn State University |
| Kelley Redmon | Program Coordinator, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources | Prairie View A&M University |
Become a Sponsor
To inquire about sponsorship opportunities for the 2025 MS-CC Annual Meeting, please contact Ivanna Park, Manager, Partnership Marketing.
Past MS-CC Annual Meetings
- Our first Annual Meeting was held May 10-11, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia, and attended by 114 colleagues across 58 institutions and organizations, including 25 HBCUs and 3 TCUs.
- Our second Annual Meeting was held May 29-31, 2024, in Washington, D.C., and attended by over 130 community participants and supporters, including attendees from 32 HBCUs and 3 TCUs.