Developing a National STEM Workforce Strategy: A Workshop Summary

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Developing a National STEM Workforce Strategy: A Workshop Summary
DEVELOPING A NATIONAL
STEM WORKFORCE STRATEGY
A WORKSHOP SUMMARY
Joe Alper, Rapporteur
Board on Higher Education and Workforce
Policy and Global Affairs Division
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PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR THE NATIONAL SUMMIT
ON DEVELOPING A STEM WORKFORCE STRATEGY
RODNEY C. ADKINS (Chair), Senior Vice President of Partnership
Strategy (retired), IBM
DANIEL E. ATKINS, III, Professor Emeritus of Information and
Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Michigan
GREGORY CAMILLI, Professor, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers
University
REBECCA DERNBERGER, Vice President and General Manager,
Northeast Division, Manpower, Inc.
KIMBERLY A. GREEN, Executive Director, National Association of
State Directors of Career and Technical Education Consortium
MARY ALICE MCCARTHY, Senior Policy Analyst, Higher Education
Initiative, New America Foundation
DeRIONNE P. POLLARD, President, Montgomery College
RUSSELL W. RUMBERGER, Professor of Education, Gevirtz Graduate
School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara
DEBRA W. STEWART, Former President, Council of Graduate Schools
HOLLY ZANVILLE, Strategy Director, Lumina Foundation
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BOARD ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE
WILLIAM E. KIRWAN (Chair), Chancellor Emeritus, University System
of Maryland
F. KING ALEXANDER, President and Chancellor, Louisiana State
University
JOHN SEELY BROWN, Visiting Scholar, University of Southern
California, and Independent Co-chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge
ANGELA BYARS-WINSTON, Associate Professor of Medicine,
University of Wisconsin–Madison
CARLOS CASTILLO-CHAVEZ, Regents and Joaquin Bustoz Professor
of Mathematical Biology, and Director, Mathematical, Computational
and Modeling Sciences Center, Arizona State University
JARED L. COHON, President Emeritus and University Professor of Civil
and Environmental Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy,
Carnegie Mellon University
RITA COLWELL, Distinguished University Professor, University of
Maryland, College Park and Johns Hopkins University
APRILLE ERICSSON, Aerospace Engineer, NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center
RICHARD FREEMAN, Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics,
Harvard University
EARL LEWIS, President, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
SALLY MASON, President Emerita, University of Iowa
FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ, Chancellor, Los Angeles Community
College District
SUBHASH SINGHAL, Battelle Fellow Emeritus, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Staff
TOM RUDIN, Director, Board on Higher Education and Workforce
ELIZABETH O’HARE, Program Officer (until January, 2016)
NINA BOSTON, Research Associate
IRENE NGUN, Research Associate
Consultant
JOE ALPER, Rapporteur
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Acknowledgments
The committee thanks the National Science Foundation (NSF) for its
support of this summit and for the many experts within NSF with whom it
met in the course of planning the summit, each of whom provided valuable
insights and ideas in shaping the project.
This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for
their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with pro-
cedures approved by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
Medicine’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent
review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the insti-
tution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure
that the report meets institutional standards for quality and objectivity. The
review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the
integrity of the process.
We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this
report: Daniel Atkins, University of Michigan; Scott Ellsworth, Business
Leaders United for Workforce Partnerships; Richard Freeman, Harvard
University; Melvin Greer, Lockheed Martin; Peter Henderson, University of
Maryland, Baltimore County; and William Rudman, AHIMA Foundation.
Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive
comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the content of
the report, nor did they see the final draft before its release. The review
of this report was overseen by Marigold Linton, University of Kansas.
Appointed by the Academies, she was responsible for making certain that
an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance
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with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully
considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely
with the rapporteur and the institution.
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Contents
1 INTRODUCTION 1
Workshop Themes, 3
Organization of the Summary, 5
Issues That Emerged During the Workshop, 6
2 THE STEM WORKFORCE LANDSCAPE 9
Modeling What We Teach, 9
Revisiting the STEM Workforce, 12
America’s Millennials and the Future of the U.S. Economy, 19
Discussion, 30
3 THE STUDENT AND RECENT GRADUATE VOICE 33
Discussion, 35
4 KEY CHALLENGES FACING U.S. EMPLOYERS IN
HIGH-DEMAND FIELDS 39
Discussion, 42
5 MAINTAINING STUDENT INTEREST IN STEM 47
Discussion, 51
6 SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES FOR ALIGNING HIGHER
EDUCATION PROGRAMS, CURRICULA, AND LAB
EXPERIENCES WITH WORKFORCE NEEDS 55
New Approaches to University Education, 55
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