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White House and Universities Pledge Greater Effort to Retain Science Students

Chronicle of Higher Education

February 7, 2012

The Obama administration puts its stamp Tuesday on a strategy to boost the nation's numbers of science and engineering graduates by working harder to retain those already in the college pipeline. Increasing the retention of students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to 50 percent, from current levels below 40 percent, would create three-fourths of the one million additional degrees in the STEM fields that the administration sees as necessary over the next decade, a White House panel said in a report to President Obama.

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