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Comments September-October 2008 - Electronic Format
The complete September-October issue of Comments in PDF format.
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Workforce
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New Data on Physics Faculty
The Statistical Research Center (SRC) of the American Institute of Physics has recently posted data on its website from the 2006 Academic Workforce survey.
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A Toolkit for a Successful Science Career
The Chicago Guide to Your Career in Science has just been released by the University of Chicago Press. It explains the philosophy and how to of becoming a
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National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Research the Millennial Generation
Born between 1980 and 2001, the Millennial generation has been generally characterized by a sense of entitlement and high expectations, both of which have been
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The Best Places to Launch a Career
According to a recent article in Business Week, while the economy has made cash tight at companies, there is still intense competition to bring in talented new workers.
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Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act
Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs hailed the passage of the Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act (H.R. 1469).
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Sociology Graduates and Job Satisfaction
In Pathways to Job Satisfaction: What Happened to the Class of 2005, authors Roberta Spalter-Roth and Nicole Van Vooren of the American Sociological Associations
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Worlds Most Innovative Nations
A new study published in the September/October issue of the journal Marketing Science analyzed data on innovation to provide information about the world's most
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State Economic Development and State Colleges
A new policy brief from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities examines the role of state public colleges in the development of state and regional economies.
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Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities
The Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan has ranked the top 100 Scientific Papers for World Universities of 2008. The institution ranking number
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Top Growing and Disappearing Jobs in the United States
A recent article in Forbes Magazine lists the top 20 growing and disappearing jobs in the United States. The top 20 growing and disappearing jobs represent a wide range of fields
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Subcommittee Examines the Effectiveness of the DOEs BES Program in Advancing Energy Technologies
The House Science and Technology Committees Energy and Environment Subcommittee held a hearing on September 9, 2008 to review the Department of Energy
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CDW IT Monitor Score Rises to 73
The CDW IT Monitor showed a slight increase in June, raising one point, to 73 from April 2008. This one point rise indicates an increase in confidence among IT professionals.
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U. S. Industry R&D Expenditures Continue to Increase
Industrial companies spent almost $248 billion on research and development (R&D) performed in the United States in 2006; this was up from $226 billion in 2005.
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Labor Force Projections
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projected that the overall labor force will increase by 7.2% from 2007 to 2016 in the July edition of the Monthly Labor Review.
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Jobs in Mathematics Education in Colleges and Universities
An examination of the postings of national searches for persons to fill the positions in mathematics education in institutions of higher education reveals continuing shortages.
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H-1B Visa Beneficiaries in the U.S. S&E Labor Force
Many U.S. employers of S&E workers have become increasingly vocal about the labor shortages they perceive amongst several of the skilled S&E occupational categories.
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National Academies Offshoring of Engineering Report
Offshoring of engineering activities has increased significantly in recent years across a range of industries, and will continue to expand in scale and sophistication
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Supply and Demand of Sociologists in Academia
According to the report, Too Many or Too Few PhDs?: Employment Opportunities in Academic Sociology, released in June 2008 by the American Sociological Association
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Salaries
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Annual AAUP Report on the Economic Status of the Professoriate
According to the most recent annual report by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the funding priorities of higher education are questionable.
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Employment at Major Chemical Companies
Employment at major chemical companies in the United States continued to decline in 2007, as did employment at similar companies around the world.
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Salaries of Engineers in Australia
Salaries were high for new graduate engineers commencing work in Australia between 2007 and 2008, with over 90% of their starting salaries higher than the minimum
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Salaries of Life Scientists
The Scientist has recently published the results of the 2008 salary survey. The survey was available for completion between February 15 and June 2, 2008
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Starting Salaries of PhD and Bachelor Degree Physicists in 2005 and 2006
The American Institute of Physics reported that starting salaries for faculty with physics PhDs were between $41,000 and $50,000 in bachelors-granting departments
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Women & Minorities
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The Persistent Glass Ceiling in the Chemical Industry
Within the many fields that constitute the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, chemistry has long attracted women to its ranks.
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Title IX Conference at the Department of Energy
On July 23rd, 2008, the Department of Energy hosted the 2008 Federal Interagency Title IX Symposium: Gender Equity in Science, Technology, Engineering
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Thirty-Three Years of Women Science and Engineering Faculty
A new InfoBrief just released by the National Science Foundation presents an interesting analysis of 33 years of data on women in science and engineering (S&E) faculty positions.
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2007 Top Ranked Bachelor Degree Producers in all Disciplines
Diverse Issues in Higher Education has recently published the top 100 degree producers of baccalaureate minority graduates in the United States. The data were derived
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URM Females and Top Engineering Schools, 2006
In 2006, 68,121 engineering bachelors degrees were awarded in the United States. The school that awarded the highest number of engineering bachelors degrees in 2006
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14th International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists, 2008
The 14th International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES), held by the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists (INWES)
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Baccalaureate Origins of African American and Hispanic Ph.D.s, 2006
Which institutions produce the most African American and Hispanic bachelors degree recipients who went on to earn a Ph.D. in the United States in 2006? This question can
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Status and Trends in the Education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008
A new report from the National Center for Education Statistics examines the educational progress of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) children and adults and challenges
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American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month: November 2008
The first American Indian Day was celebrated in May 1916 in New York. Red Fox James, a Blackfeet Indian, rode horseback from state to state, getting endorsements
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Science and Engineering Degrees Awarded to American Indians and Alaska Natives
Last weeks issue of CPST Comments included an article about a new report from the National Center for Education Statistics titled Status and trends in the Education
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Who Will Do Science and Engineering? CPSTs Annual Meeting
The CPST annual meeting revisited the theme of a volume from 1994 edited by Willie Pearson and Allan Fechter title Who Will Do Science? Educating the Next Generation.
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AIP Survey of Women in Physics Around the World
The American Institute for Physics (AIP) Statistical Research Center (SRC) has reported that they received a grant from The Henry Luce Foundation to conduct a survey
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Texas Institutions Along Border Lead State, Nation In Latino/a Enrollment and Degree Completion
Eight higher education institutions along the U.S.- Mexico border in Texas lead the nation in enrolling and awarding degrees to Latino/a students according
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Untapped Talent: African American Presence in Physics and Geosciences
A new report from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) documents the continued under-representation of African Americans in physics and the geosciences.
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Role of HBCUs in the Production of Black PhDs in S&E
During the period of segregation in the United States, the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) provided the undergraduate and graduate education
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Ph.D. Project by U.S. Business Schools
The number of doctorally-qualified minority professors at U.S. business schools has tripled since 1994, due largely to the efforts of The PhD Project, an award-winning program
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Top Companies Admired by Minority Professionals
U.S. Black Engineer (USBE) conducted a survey that has reported companies that were found to be the most admired by minority professionals. Respondents reported on
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The Most Powerful Women in Business
Fortune Magazines annual ranking of Americas leading businesswomen named Indra Nooyi, the chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, the Most Powerful Woman in Business
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Education
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Public School Graduates and Non-completers, 2006
The National Center for Education Statistics has released a new report titled Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States, 2006 (NCES 2008-053). Highlights from
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Slowdown in International Graduate Admissions Continues
The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) is reporting that offers of admission from U.S. graduate schools to prospective international students increased 4% from 2007 to 2008.
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Baccalaureate-origins of PhDs
Which institutions produce the most bachelors degree recipients who went on to earn a PhD in the United States? This question can be answered for both U.S. institutions
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Universities Report Continued Decline in Real Federal Support for Research and Development
Federal funding of academic science and engineering research and development (R&D) failed to outpace inflation for the second year in a row, according to recently
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Engineering Bachelors Degrees, 2007
The American Society for Engineering Education has just released new data on bachelors degrees awarded in 2007. The 73,315 engineering bachelors degrees in 2007
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Special Supplement on Community Colleges to The Condition of Education, 2008
Community colleges enroll over one-third of America's college students, confer the majority of associate's degrees, and serve as a gateway to bachelor's degrees
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NSF Launches New Engineering Research Centers and National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
Inter-disciplinary collaboration has become almost a mantra at research-intensive universities. In addition, international collaboration in science and engineering has
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U.S. News & World Reports Best Colleges of 2009
This year Harvard University tops the list of Americas Best Colleges, just beating Princeton, ranking number two, by one-tenth of a point in a reputation survey that
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Number of SAT Test Takers Increased 8% Since 2003: Racial Disparities Persist
A record number of students in the class of 2008 took the SAT this year, with a higher percentage of first-generation students than last year and a high rate of minority
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Financing Graduate Education
There are many ways that students finance graduate education in the United States. Research and teaching assistantships, generally financed by grants and contracts
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Professional Science Masters Degree Programs and U.S. Competitiveness
A new report from the National Research Council titled Science Professionals: Masters Education for a Competitive World indicates that there is an increased demand
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Postsecondary Career/Technical Education: Changes in the Number of Offering Institutions and Awarded Credentials from 1997 to 2006
A new issue brief available from the National Center for Education Statistics examines trends from 1997 to 2006 in the number of sub-baccalaureate postsecondary institutions
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Student Victimization in U.S. Schools: Results from the 2005 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey
A new report provides estimates of student victimization as defined by the 2005 School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the 2005 National Crime Victimization Survey
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NSF Changes Reporting of Survey of Earned Doctorates Data
A new InfoBrief from the National Science Foundation details the continued increase in STEM doctoral degrees in 2007 in comparison to 2006. Doctoral degree production
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Doctoral Recipients in Mathematical Sciences
The American Mathematical Society has published its second report from the 2007 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences in the United States in its magazine, Notices.
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Degree Production in the Geosciences
Of the more than 1.4 million bachelors degrees and 586,029 masters degrees awarded in 2006, a small fraction (0.3%) were awarded in the geosciences at each level.
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International Degrees in Science and Engineering
The first chart, derived from the National Science Foundations Science and Engineering Indicators, 2008, shows those nations in which 70,000 or more first university
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Average College Tuition Costs Rise to Over $30,000
This year the average cost of four-year private college went up to $30,367, the first time the average has surpassed the $30,000 mark. The College Board, a non-profit
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Researchers Identify Best Strategies for Supporting New Science Teachers
With a nationwide shortage of science teachers and plummeting student test scores, many school districts are forced to hire teachers with science degrees but little
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Upward Mobility in Educational Attainment Has Stalled
The tradition of young adults in the United States attaining higher levels of education than previous generations appears to have stalled, and for far
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Council of Graduate Schools Graduate Enrollment and Degrees: 1997 to 2007
The annual report Graduate Enrollment and Degrees: 1997 to 2007, has been released by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS). Co-sponsored with the Graduate
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Minimal Growth in International Graduate Enrollment in 2008
The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) reports that both first-time and total enrollment of international students at the largest U.S. graduate schools increased 3%
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Baccalaureate Origins of Science and Engineering Doctoral Degree Recipients
What U.S. colleges and universities produce the most bachelors degree graduates who go on to earn doctoral degrees from U.S. colleges and universities? A new report
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Girls, Boys, and Mathematics
New research reported in Science demonstrates that girls and boys are more similar than they are different when it comes to mathematics. The myth that girls mathematics
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Doctoral Computer Science Departments Face Declines in Future Ph.D.s?
According to the Computing Research Association (CRA), doctoral computer science departments have not yet reached the peak of Ph.D. production, although they appear
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2007 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences in the United States: Third Report
According to the 2007 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences in the United States, there were modest changes in the number of mathematics faculty from 2006 to 2007.
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Down Washington Corridors
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Obamas Positions on Science Education and Employment
During the fall campaign for president, both Barack Obama and John McCain answered science policy questions submitted by ScienceDebate2008.
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DOE Names Winners of Student Science Competition
Six top national science students, including one grand prize winner, were awarded Monday at the U.S. Department of Energy's inaugural Science and Energy Research
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Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Named New Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Commission
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) was named the new Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Commission on July 30th, replacing
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Leading Public Universities Commit to Boosting Quality and Quantity of Science and Math Teachers
The member institutions of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC) are responding to the call for 10,000 new science and mathematics
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American Council on Education Launches Veterans Initiative
As U.S. higher education prepares for the expansion of federal benefits for American service members effective Aug. 1, 2009, the Washington, D.C.-based
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National Academy of Sciences Recommendations to Presidential Candidates
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) sent both presidential candidates a number of recommendations for making presidential appointments to science and technology
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House Science Committee Chairman: Innovation Will Solve Americas Energy, Economic Needs
The House Committee on Science and Technology Chairman Bart Gordon (D-TN) offered the following statement on his recent discussion with Dr. Fareed Zakaria
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DHS Recognizes Critical Manufacturing Sector As Key New Private Sector Security Partner
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has formally recognized the creation of the new Critical Manufacturing Sector Coordinating Council (CMSCC).
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Federal R&D Funding
Two new reports look at Federal R&D funding. The first report, by Melissa Pollak at the National Science Foundation, indicates a projected decrease in Federal funding
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FASEB Unveils NIH Advocacy Clearinghouse Website
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) has launched a new website as a resource for the biomedical research advocacy community.
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Chairman Gordon Re-elected, Lays Out Vision For House Committee on Science and Technology
The Democratic caucus has re-elected Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN) as Chairman of the Committee on Science and Technology for the 111th Congress.
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The Handbook of Online Research Methods New Publication
The Handbook of Online Research Methods has recently been published by Sage Publications, Inc. The 2008 book demonstrates ways to use social research methods
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Subcommittee Examines Role of NGOs and Universities in International Science and Technology Cooperation
The House Science and Technology Committee Research and Science Education Subcommittee held a recent hearing to examine the role of U.S. non-governmental
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Committee Looks to Improve Major Federal Information Technology R&D Program
The House Committee on Science and Technology held a hearing to review the federal, interagency research initiative in networking and information technology
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Subcommittee Report Finds CDC Has Failed to Protect the Public Health
The House Committee on Science and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight released a staff report that details the Agency for Toxic Substances
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Around the World
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New Report on 'Brain Waste': 1 in 5 College-Educated Immigrants in U.S. Labor Market Stuck in Unskilled Jobs or Unemployed
More than 1.3 million college-educated immigrants living in the United States are unemployed or working in unskilled jobs because they are unable to make full use of
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