Council Calls For Measures To Improve Access To Math And Scienceeducation, Careers

摘要

The National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, based in White Plains, New York, has called upon leaders in industry, academia, and government to address the "relative absence of underrepresented minorities in scientific and engineering study and careers." The exhortations are part of a report that grew out of a symposium at which participants called for change in four particular areas: kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12), higher education, business, and government. Those expressing their views and offering solutions at the symposium included J.D. Hoye, the president of the National Academy Foundation, of New York City; Margaret Daniels Tyler, the senior program officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, of Seattle; Nicholas M. Donofrio, the executive vice president for innovation and technology for the IBM Corporation, of Armonk, New York; Craig R. Barrett, the chairman of the board of the Intel Corporation, of Santa Clara, California; and Norman R. Augustine, the chair of the National Academies' Rising Above the Gathering Storm Committee (see "Vaporizing the Gathering Storm," Civil Engineering, March 2006, pages 52-57, 84).