{"id":8,"date":"2013-11-26T11:58:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T11:58:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-03-26T09:07:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T15:07:59","slug":"8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/2013\/11\/26\/8\/","title":{"rendered":"The STEM Iceberg"},"content":{"rendered":" \r\n

The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> recently published a <\/span><\/span><\/span>lengthy article<\/span><\/span><\/a> entitled, \u201cThe STEM Crisis: Reality or Myth?\u201d Various experts in science policy and labor trends contributed their views, and in the end, I was left wondering whether I should even continue this blog. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\u00a0But then I started reading a <\/span>major study<\/span><\/span><\/a> of STEM majors published in 1997, Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences<\/em>, by Seymour and Hewitt. It became clear to the researchers after interviewing 460 STEM undergraduates that switching majors is merely the tip of \u201cthe problem iceberg\u201d (pp. 46-47). Both students who switched to non-science majors and those who stuck with STEM disciplines identified many of the same dissatisfactions with STEM disciplines, two of the top ones being, inadequate help with academic problems and advising, and discovering that their reasons for choosing a STEM major were inappropriate. <\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nSTEM crisis, or no, there is still a need for academic librarians to investigate how we can contribute to improving the educational experience of STEM undergraduates. Providing help with \u201cacademic problems\u201d and accurate career information to support realistic selection of majors are areas where we can definitely make an impact.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"  The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published a lengthy article entitled, \u201cThe STEM Crisis: Reality or Myth?\u201d Various experts in science policy and labor trends contributed their views, and in the end, I was left wondering whether I should even continue this blog. \u00a0But then I started reading a major study of STEM majors… Read more »<\/a>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[5,76,75,72,73],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-career_guidance","tag-education","tag-publications","tag-retentionpersistence","tag-stem"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/Iceberg_lrg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5tTwG-8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}