Business and Academe Call for Encouraging Math, Science Interest
Mounting angst was on display here last week as corporate and university leaders gathered to press federal officials to take steps to ensure that the United States keeps up economically with foreign competitors—and that schools produce enough talent in math, science, and engineering to make it happen.
About 300 business and university leaders voiced their concerns at the Dec. 7 forum, called the National Summit on Competitiveness: Investing in U.S. Innovation. It aimed to “sound the alarm on threats to America’s economic leadership,” according to a written description of the event.
Americans tend to think “if we kind of step back and wait five years, this [issue] will go away,” said Dana G. Mead, the chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corp., the board of trustees for the university, located in Cambridge, Mass. “We don’t believe this one is...
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