Monthly Archives: March 2022

If you don’t know what to major in when you start college, don’t select an “undecided” or “exploratory” major. Do this instead.

Sometime in the next month, the members of the high school graduating class of 2022 who have chosen to attend four-year colleges will select their colleges – and that will seem like the climax to which their high school years … Continue reading

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USF has a mentoring program available to male engineering majors but not to women studying engineering. This doesn’t pass the smell test – and neither does the Tampa Bay Times article uncritically reporting on it.

The University of South Florida has responded to what the Tampa Bay Times called in a Sunday article “a growing gap in college completion rates between male and female students” by starting a peer mentorship program for male students. The … Continue reading

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Florida should improve the opportunities for its own students to enter the supply chain for scientists and engineers

“Supply chain” used to be a phrase used almost exclusively by logistics experts. During the last year, many more people learned about how supply chains work as they combed store shelves and the lots of car dealers looking for consumer … Continue reading

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What would it take to stabilize Florida’s high school physics teaching corps?

At least for high school physics teachers in Florida, the opening paragraph of an article titled “The US is in dire need of STEM teachers” in this month’s Physics Today is incredibly tone deaf: Schoolteachers report career satisfaction. Jobs are … Continue reading

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It’s Parent Season! Time to talk with high school parents about the courses their students should take in the fall.

Throughout Florida, parents and students are thinking about how to fill out their course preference forms for the 2022-23 school year. That means it’s time to focus on giving parents the information they need to make sure their high school … Continue reading

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