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STEM models of success: Programs, policies, and Practices.
(2014)
  • J. Luke Wood, PhD, San Diego State University
  • Robert T. Palmer, PhD
Abstract

Increasing success among these populations can contribute significantly to advancing the nation’s interests in STEM. As such, the community college is situated as an important site for innovative practices that have strong implications for bolstering the nation’s production and sustenance of a STEM labor force. In recognition of this role, the National Science Foundation and private funding agencies have invested millions of dollars into research and programs designed to bolster the STEM pipeline. From this funding and other independently sponsored inquiry, promising programs, initiatives, and research recommendations have been identified. These efforts hold great promise for change, with the potential to transform the education and outcome of STEM students at all levels. This important book discusses many of these promising programs, initiatives, and research-based recommendations that can impact the success of STEM students in the community college. This compilation is timely, on the national landscape, as the federal government has placed increasing importance on improving STEM degree production as a strategy for America’s future stability in an increasingly competitive global marketplace. Informed by research and theory, each chapter in this volume blazes new territory in articulating how community colleges can advance outcomes for students in STEM, particularly those from historically underrepresented and undeserved communities.

Publication Date
2014
Editor
J. Luke Wood and Robert Palmer
Publisher
Information Age Press.
Citation Information
J. Luke Wood, PhD and Robert T. Palmer, PhD. STEM models of success: Programs, policies, and Practices.. New York(2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/robert_palmer/55/