| Author(s): | Business Higher Education Forum (BHEF) |
| Title: | Meeting the STEM workforce challenge: Leveraging higher education's untapped potential to prepare tomorrow's STEM workforce |
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| Date: | 2011 |
| Organization: | Business Higher Education Forum (BHEF) |
| Short Description: | The United States is not producing enough STEM specialists, STEM teachers, or STEM-literate citizens to sufficiently drive innovation, spur economic growth, and produce engaged, informed leaders and citizens. |
| Annotation: | Innovations in science and engineering have driven economic growth in the United States over the last five decades. More recently, technology has risen to become a defining driver of productivity in business and industry. In that context, college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines provide critical talent that fuels America’s competitive ability. Unfortunately, the United States is not producing enough STEM specialists, STEM teachers, or STEM-literate citizens to sufficiently drive innovation, spur economic growth, and produce engaged, informed leaders and citizens. Leaders in business, education, and government have recognized that the United States must develop more home-grown talent in STEM disciplines to meet workforce demand. Today, too few of our students are prepared for and interested in pursuing training, degrees, and careers in STEM-related fields. Moreover, as baby-boomer STEM workers rapidly approach retirement age, their replacements will increasingly be
women and minorities, two groups that historically have had low participation rates in these fields. |
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