In 2006 when I arrived as president at Harvey Mudd College, a small (800 students) science and engineering college in Claremont, Cal., my first order of business was to lead a strategic planning ...

The need to diversify the federal STEM workforce is like writing on the wall. As an increasing number of STEM doctorates are awarded to international students who eventually return–with their STEM ...

STEM stands for Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics. There is a movement afoot to turn that acronym into STEAM by adding the Arts. Science educators have begun to realize that the skills ...

Despite popular belief, students don’t just write in Haines and Bunche halls. All UCLA students are required to take one Writing II class. These classes are designed to improve the proficiency of ...

It’s high time we put the most enduring myths about human behavior to bed, and see the mind—and the world—as it is. STEM stands for Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics. There is a movement ...

(Next page: How writing improves STEM learning; closing the writing gap) Writing in STEM In math classrooms, students can use mathematical modeling instruction as a pre-writing experience to ...

Elea Abisamra (at left) and other Virginia Tech students teach elementary school kids about science through writing and self-publishing books. Elea Abisamra published her first book in fifth grade.

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. For undergraduate students, though, the amount of communication training they receive depends on ...

To the Auburn STEM students, 8,132 of which make up the undergraduate Colleges of Engineering and Science and Mathematics ...

Today’s students need to write in science and math class because they will need to write well to get tomorrow’s jobs. Writing is used to assess student learning more often than it is used to ...