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BHEF Policy Brief - Meeting the STEM Workforce Challenge: Leveraging Higher Education’s Untapped Potential To Prepare Tomorrow’s STEM Workforce

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NEW 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. ...More

BHEF Research Brief - Creating the Workforce of the Future: The STEM Interest and Proficiency Challenge

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NEW Current interest in STEM fields and proficiency in math are not sufficient to meet U.S. workforce demand. As the country’s population becomes increasingly diverse, gender and race/ethnicity disparities in STEM interest and proficiency will exacerbate workforce challenges. Policy interventions will require a nuanced two-pronged approach focused on increasing STEM interest and improving math proficiency. ...More

BHEF Research Brief - Meeting the STEM Workforce Demand: Accelerating Math Learning Among Students Interested in STEM

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NEW STEM-interested, but not math proficient students represent some of the low-hanging fruit of the STEM education pipeline. In particular, using new learning tools to accelerate math achievement during the latter part of high school could move considerable numbers of students into STEM education and the STEM workforce, increasing the diversity of both. ...More

New research briefs offer concise picture of the STEM challenge

December 7th, 2011
By Jeanne Contardo, Director of Programs & Policy Analysis, BHEF
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The need is urgent for clear and transparent information about the workforce challenges threatening this nation’s economy. To address this misinformation, the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) has launched the new BHEF STEM Research and Policy Brief Series, which focuses on important dimensions of the education and workforce misalignment challenge facing the United States, with particular attention given to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. ...More

Corporate Investments in College Readiness and Access

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This study sets out to understand the extent of corporate support for college readiness and access and the most effective practices major corporations use to support college readiness and access initiatives. ...More

The Universal Encouragement Program (UEP)

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The Universal Encouragement Program is an online guidance assessment system that enables schools and education support programs to document student guidance needs, interests, and experiences with respect to their academic and career development. ...More

Corporate Investments in Education During an Economic Downturn

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Examines whether corporate philanthropies continue their support of education improvement during an economic downturn. ...More

Evaluation Toolkit from the Pell Institute and Pathways to College Network

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The online toolkit is an innovative online resource that guides users through the process of conducting small scale, high quality program evaluation. ...More

ACT's World-of-Work Map

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This tool, in conjunction with ACT's career assessments, can help high school students think through their career options. ...More

Time Warner, Inc.

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The Time Warner, Inc. case study is a prime example of how data gathered from research can be effectively applied to guide corporate practice. ...More

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