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August 18, 2009
Geoscience departments and their universities draw upon the same pool of high school graduates for undergraduate recruitment. Geoscience departments see students coming from generally the same catchment as their parent institution, though geoscience students tend slightly to be more “local” than...
July 22, 2009
The most significant choke point in the geoscience career pipeline is at its source: secondary schools. Unfortunately, most U.S. high schools do not provide courses that expose students to the geosciences. This problem is exacerbated by the lack of Advanced Placement courses in the geosciences. A...
June 22, 2009
The 2008-2009 academic year saw a sharp 8% increase in the number of geosciences undergraduates enrolled in U.S. institutions, to a total population of 22,191. This trend was not evident in graduate enrollments, which remained basically flat at 7,846 students. These trends reflect statements from...
June 08, 2009
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) have relatively low percentages of bachelor degree recipients with physical disabilities. The average percentage of bachelor degree recipients with physical disabilities in all geosciences degree fields (6.45%) is on par with other STEM...
March 30, 2009
From the end of 2008 through the early part of 2009, an increasing number of representatives from academic institutions began expressing concerns about the viability of their geoscience programs in the face of cutbacks due to the economic downturn. To etter assess this situation, the American...
November 25, 2008
A common assertion is that the number of geoscience degrees granted is dependent on the price of oil. However, this metric requires a response lag greater than oil price change velocity. A more responsive mechanism would likely be the rate of degree completion – that students would be incentivized...
September 26, 2008
The states with the lowest percentage of under-represented minorities have relatively small populations with more than 50% of the people living in rural areas. The under-represented population includes Black and African American, American Indian and Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific...
July 22, 2008
The states with the most geoscience departments are in California, New York, and Pennsylvania. Students in states that have a larger number of universities with geoscience departments will, in general, have a greater diversity of options to major in the field in their region.
July 09, 2008
Tenure-track geoscience faculty progress steadily through the academic ranks from assistant professor to full professor by the age of 60. Full professors tend to work later into their career, and there is a cross-over in the population of full professors and emeritus in the 71-75 age range.
The...
June 27, 2008
Individuals who hold terminal geoscience master’s or doctoral degrees have similar academic backgrounds. Both groups have comparable percentages of bachelor degrees in business (~ 1%), engineering (12-17%), geosciences (50-56%), other science & mathematics (18-19%), and other degree fields (12-...
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