U.S. News & World Report’s “STEM Education” blog recently featured President Hrabowski’s thoughts on the future of science, technology, engineering and math in higher education, including ways to develop a more robust pipeline for students and workers in those fields.
President Hrabowski, who was recently inducted into the magazine’s STEM Hall of Fame, was interviewed along with four other inductees. He spoke to U.S. News about the necessity for greater cooperation across spectrums. “Let’s knock down the boundaries between public and private sectors,” he said.
Doing so, President Hrabowski said, would help businesses better communicate exactly what they need in the STEM workforce, and universities could adjust their programs to incorporate more real-world problems. He also emphasized the importance of helping students with an interest in the STEM fields to stick with those programs of study, as opposed to continuing the current trend of many students leaving those fields before graduating.
“Two thirds of those who begin with a major in those areas are not making it,” he said. “And we assume that’s OK.”
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