We Don’t Have to Lose STEM Students to Business

Most undergraduate students who leave STEM majors before graduation choose careers in business. This article argues that better integrating business opportunities and context into the STEM curriculum could advance STEM learning, motivate students to remain in STEM as majors, and cultivate a construc...

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Autores principales: Wernick, Naomi L. B., Ledley, Fred D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society of Microbiology 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7198222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32431771
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v21i1.2095
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spelling pubmed-71982222020-05-19 We Don’t Have to Lose STEM Students to Business Wernick, Naomi L. B. Ledley, Fred D. J Microbiol Biol Educ Perspectives Most undergraduate students who leave STEM majors before graduation choose careers in business. This article argues that better integrating business opportunities and context into the STEM curriculum could advance STEM learning, motivate students to remain in STEM as majors, and cultivate a constructive relationship between business, science, and society. American Society of Microbiology 2020-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7198222/ /pubmed/32431771 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v21i1.2095 Text en ©2020 Author(s). Published by the American Society for Microbiology This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ and https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode), which grants the public the nonexclusive right to copy, distribute, or display the published work.
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