State of STEM Education

This webinar, from the Micro Nano Technology Education Center (MNT-EC), features Professor Kendrick Davis discussing key data points on STEM education and barriers to STEM success. Davis specifically focuses on underrepresented subgroups of people in STEM, including Black, Latinx, Native American, disabled, and foster youth. Davis provides data on the growth rate of STEM occupations and the number of STEM bachelor's degrees as a proportion of total by race. Next, barriers to STEM success are discussed. The main barriers include: culturally irrelevant curricula, culturally unresponsive teaching practices, deficit-based vs. asset-based mindsets, microaggressions, and more. Case studies to highlight diversification within the STEM community are also discussed. This video runs 01:02:23 minutes in length.