Some 22 small-town high school students and teachers joined UW-Madison students and researchers this month in donning lab coats and blue plastic gloves to experiment with live human stem cells, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. More...
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) recently awarded the STEMPREP Project at Southern Methodist University a $3.78 million grant to support its goal of increasing the number of minorities in STEM fields. More...
By . Dressed in a black hoodie and sagging jeans, DeAndre (name changed) swaggers down the street, singing loudly the gritty lyrics of a gangsta rap. More...
By Thomas Carey. There was a bit of attention in IHE recently to the idea of a “Polytechnic University” as an element in rethinking institutional strategic position – and not all of it was positive. The transformation of Purdue University’s College of Technology was one development highlighted. Read more...
By Amy E. Slaton and Donna M. Riley. If the United States is facing a STEM workforce crisis, as so many economic and industry analysts argue, the worst thing we could possibly do is abandon the very thing that sets U.S.-educated STEM workers apart: the broad education that endows our workers with professional competencies, the perspective to lead organizations in private and public sectors, and the flexibility to adapt to the changing and complex technologies that pervade our culture. Read more...
By Steve Munby. The UK is facing a national maths crisis, and a revolution in the way the subject is taught will be required to solve it, writes Steve Munby. Read more...
By . About a month ago, I wrote about whether institutions would adjust their program mix if it would help improve economic growth. Nearly everyone that wrote me implicitly assumed that the “right” mix for economic growth implied a switch to a more STEM-heavy system, before going on to say something like “but what about the humanities?” I found this kind of amusing, because I actually don’t automatically assume that STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) degrees are where it’s at in terms of growth, and there are a couple of quite high-powered papers out that support this view. More...
By Phil Hill. In these two episodes of e-Literate TV, we shared how Arizona State University (ASU) started using Khan Academy as the software platform for a redesigned developmental math course[1] (MAT 110). The program was designed in Summer 2014 and ran through Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 terms. More...
By Andrew Barbour. The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) announced the 100 STEM faculty leaders from 76 institutions of higher education who have been selected to participate in the 2015 PKAL Summer Leadership Institutes. More...
By Bridget McCrea. According to National Center for Education Statistics’ (NCES) STEM Attrition: College Students’ Paths Into and Out of STEM Fields Statistical Analysis Report, about 28 percent of bachelor’s degree students and 20 percent of associate’s degree students entered a STEM field (i.e., they chose a STEM-related major) at some point within six years of entering postsecondary education in 2003−04. More...
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