STEM Workforce Challenge: The Role of the Public Workforce System in a National Solution for a Competitive Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce.

摘要

The U.S. Department of Labor is already an important partner in federal efforts to strengthen the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) pipeline. The U.S. Department of Labor invests about $14 billion a year in the nations workforce system and in increasing the skills and education of our current workforce. In addition, the Department of Labor has begun investing regionally in ways that overcome typical fragmentation in planning and action among industry, government, non-governmental organizations, and education and training institutions. The Department of Labor has the potential to play an even more important role in addressing gaps in the nations approach to strengthening the STEM pipeline in three areas: (1) building the gateway to STEM careers; (2) enhancing the capacity of talent development institutions to produce more and better skilled STEM workers; and (3) catalyzing and supporting innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. The leadership of the Employment and Training Administration is committed to, and stands ready to contribute and collaborate to develop an overall national strategy around the STEM workforce pipeline and to improve coordination across federal agencies.