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Into the Eye of the Storm: Assessing the Evidence on Science and Engineering Education,
Quality, and Workforce Demand
- "Recent policy reports claim the United States is falling behind other nations in science and math education and graduating insufficient numbers of scientists and engineers. Review of the evidence and analysis of actual graduation rates and workforce needs does not find support for these claims. U.S. student performance rankings are comparable to other leading nations and colleges graduate far more scientists and engineers than are hired each year. Instead, the evidence suggests targeted education improvements are needed for the lowest performers and demand-side factors may be insufficient to attract qualified college graduates."
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The Science Education Myth
- BusinessWeek, October 26, 2007. "Forget the conventional wisdom. U.S. schools are turning out more capable science and engineering grads than the job market can support."
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Bills to Train More Scientists Go Down to the Wire
- The Chronicle, 9/8/2006. "Congress mulls modest increases in spending, but much of the money may go to schools, not colleges"
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The Ph.D. Glut Revisited
- by Gary North. "In the worldwide suckers' market, gamblers are the only people who are slower to learn than young adults with masters' degrees. Bright graduate students possess a pair of non-marketable skills: the ability to write term papers and the ability to take academic exams. They are also economic illiterates and incurably nave. So, they become the trusting victims of the professorial class." Reviewed in the NY Times, Feb 5, 2006.
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Framing the Engineering Outsourcing Debate: Placing the United States on a Level Playing
Field with China and India
- "The effect of the dynamics of engineering outsourcing on the global economy is a discussion of keen interest in both business and public circles. Varying, inconsistent reporting of problematic engineering graduation data has been used to fuel fears tha tAmerica is losing its technological edge. Typical articles have stated that in 2004 the United States graduated roughly 70,000 undergraduate engineers, while China graduated 600,000 and India 350,000. Our study has determined that these are inappropriate comparisons."
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Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten U.S. Economic
Leadership? by Richard Freeman
- Richard Freeman, NBER Working Paper, 2005. "This paper develops four propositions that show that changes in the global job market for science and engineering (S & E) workers are eroding US dominance in S & E, which diminishes comparative advantage in high tech production and creates problems for American industry and workers"
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Why Americans Don't Study Science: It Doesn't Pay
- "There they go again. Claiming they cant find enough skilled Americans, the high-tech industry has browbeaten Congress into allowing them to bring in another 20,000 foreign workers. The little-noticed legislation, inserted into an appropriations bill required for the government to continue normal operations, expands the number of foreign workers eligible for H-1b visas from 65,000 to 85,000 in 2005."
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Looking (In Vain) For the Geek Shortage
- "The sky is falling! The sky is falling! For years high-tech corporations have warned of a shortage of scientists and engineers. [See Why Americans Dont Study ScienceIt Doesnt Pay] The latest (alleged) evidence: the cap of 65,000 H-1b visas for fiscal 2006 was reached in August, 14 months prior to the fiscal year in which the visas would be used."
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If We Need Immigrant PhDs, Why Are American PhDs Poor And Unemployed?
- "There they go again. Another report on the (allegedly) vital role of immigrants in the U.S. science and engineering workforceimplicitly bemoaning the competence of native-born Americans."
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Is There a Shortage of High-Tech Workers?
- "When it comes to providing graduate education for engineers and creating a competitive and growing high-tech sector, the United States is the envy of the world. Now we hear that the future of our high-tech industries depends upon the hiring of foreign engineers and scientists. Do we, in fact, have a shortage of engineers and scientists?"
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Ph.D.s in America on the decline
- "The number of Americans earning doctoral degrees has declined in recent years, renewing worries that the United States is losing its dominance in Ph.D.-level education to rapidly developing nations like China and India. The National Center for Education Statistics recently reported that 44,160 Ph.D.s were awarded by U.S. universities in 2002, down from the high-water mark of 46,010 doctorates awarded in 1998."
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Is There a Science Crisis? Maybe Not
- The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 9, 2004. " Leaders warn of a labor shortage in the U.S., but indicators point to an oversupply. "
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What Scientist Shortage?
- Daniel S. Greenberg, Washington Post , May 19, 2004. " A scientist shortage? Again? The gloomy warnings are back. They're underpinned by declines in science studies by U.S. students and a post-Sept. 11 falloff in the enrollment of foreigners, who have traditionally filled as many as half the graduate slots in U.S. universities and have taken jobs here after graduation. A crisis is in the making, says a report by a pillar of the scientific establishment, the National Science Board, which warns that the 'trends threaten the economic welfare and security of our country.' "
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Compete America - The Alliance for a Competitive Workforce
- A lobbying group that seeks to ease restrictions on H1-B visas for foreign nationals with a Masters or PhD. "In a number of key technical fields, the total number of graduates with advanced degrees has not kept pace with demand. In addition, a rising percentage of the advanced degrees awarded by U.S. universities in areas of study like engineering, mathematics and computer sciences are to foreign nationals. Under current immigration law, however, many of these graduates are not available for hire by U.S. firms without H-1B visas. They are, however, available to overseas competitors."
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U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the Sciences
- New York Times, May 3, 2004. " The United States has started to lose its worldwide dominance in critical areas of science and innovation, according to federal and private experts who point to strong evidence like prizes awarded to Americans and the number of papers in major professional journals. "
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National Science Panel Warns of Far Too Few New Scientists
- New York Times, May 5, 2004. " The United States faces a major shortage of scientists because too few Americans are entering technical fields and because international competition is heating up for bright foreigners who once filled the gap, a federal panel warned Tuesday. "
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The Science and Engineering Workforce: Realizing America's Potential
- A 2003 report from the National Science Board urging the federal government " to deal with the coming shortage of US-born science and engineering professionals. "
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Do we need more scientists?
- by Michael S. Teitelbaum, The Public Interest, Fall 2003. "Despite the recent economic downturn, prominent scientific associations, business leaders, and academics continue to predict 'looming shortfalls' in America's science and engineering professions. Countering the prevailing view, Michael S. Teitelbaum reveals that few, if any, shortages exist in these fields and shows why proposed solutions to this illusory problem are profoundly misguided."
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Is there a Shortage of Scientists and Engineers? How Would We Know?
- RAND Issue Paper, William P. Butz, Gabrialle A. Bloom, Mihal E. Gross, Terrence K. Kelly, Aaron Kofner, Helga E. Rippen. " This paper's objectives are: * To clarify the concepts of 'shortage' and 'low-production' in the context of scientists and engineers. * To suggest answers to the questions in the paper's title. * To point toward strategies for addressing science and engineering workforce shortages. "
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Tech doctorates decline 7 percent
- C|NET News.com, January 6, 2003. " The number of science and engineering doctorate degrees awarded in the United States dropped by 7 percent from 1998 to 2001, according to a survey released Monday by the National Science Foundation. However, enrollment in science and engineering graduate programs rose in 1999 and 2000--the latest years for which data is available. "
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Engineering Shortages and Shortfalls: Myths and Realities
- Alan Fechter, The Bridge , Fall 1990. An analysis of the NSF's late 80's shortfall projections by the head of the National Research Council's Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel.
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America Must Invest More Human Capital in Scientific, Technical Fields
- by Jerome H. Grossman, National Academy of Sciences. October 11, 2002. " As the country struggles to contain terrorism and strengthen the economy, there's a growing awareness that these campaigns rely largely on a dangerously scarce resource: U.S. scientists and engineers. The shortage of technical and scientific human capital is a complex, deep-rooted problem. "
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The U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce: An Unconventional Portrait
- Michael Teitelbaum's presentation at the 2002 GUIRR Pan-Organizational Summit. " To state the message succinctly: those who are concerned about whether the production of US scientists and engineers is sufficient for national needs must pay serious attention to whether careers in science and engineering are attractive relative to other career opportunities available to US students. "
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Pan-Organizational Summit on U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce
- November 11-12, 2002. A National Academy conference on ways to address the concern that " Despite growing and continuing concern about the low production of domestic science and engineering talent, there has been little movement in U.S. policy on the issue. "
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Tech Brain Drain Pains Military
- Wired, November 18, 2002. " This should be a golden time for military scientists. The armed forces are flush with cash and bulging with bleeding-edge projects. The war on terror relies on newfangled gadgets. And the civilian economy is in the toilet. But the armed forces are scrambling to cope with a massive exodus of scientific and engineering talent. This departure is particularly brutal for the Air Force. About 20 percent of the service's 13,300 science and engineering positions are currently unfilled. Thousands more of these jobs will be abandoned in the next five years as baby boomers begin to retire. "
