Attracting Students to Cutting-Edge Programs
Upcoming: Thursday, August 12 at 2 p.m., ET
As the national and local economies change, colleges are investing in programs that will prepare students for careers in innovative STEM industries. But the question remains: Will there be enough students to fill these programs?
In this panel, Goldie Blumenstyk, a
Chronicle senior writer, will talk with a panel of experts about how colleges can attract students, especially women and others underrepresented in STEM fields, for these new programs and fill a much-needed pipeline for employers.
During the virtual forum, our panel will seek to answer:
What does it take to get students to explore new academic areas?
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I’m Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at
The Chronicle covering innovation in and around academe. Here’s what I’m thinking about this week.
Your ideas on how higher ed can help repair American democracy.
Last week I dug into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences report “
Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century” and asked how you thought higher ed could contribute. This week I’ll share some of the comments and resources you sent me.
Comments first, and for starters, the importance of science education as civic education. In the last newsletter, I quoted one of the co-chairs of the report, Danielle Allen, noting the paucity of federal spending on civic education compared with STEM in elementary and secondary schools. Several folks from the sciences found fault in that comparison, notably Jay Labov, a 23-year veteran of the science-education program at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and before that, a