Though it is frequently assumed that the college experience can influence our life goals, this claim has been relatively understudied. The current study examined the role of goals in college major selection, as well as whether major selection influences later goal change. In addition, we examined whether a person's perceptions of his or her peers' goals influence goal setting. Using a sample of...

At present, the high-quality development of Wenzhou economy needs high-skilled technical personnel. Our college relies on regional pillar industries and characteristic to run majors for providing talent support local economic development. "510 plan" issued implemented promotes cultivating outstanding graduates in our college. at same time, integrates enterprises wenzhou, wenzhou culture, storie...

The extracurricular reading situation of Chinese college students has always been unsatisfactory. However, is one the important ways to improve quality talent cultivation, especially conducive implementation "whole-person" education in colleges and universities. Therefore, deserves attention. no relevant research carried out past two years, up now, there not yet any on status business English m...

There is no shortage of articles and books exploring women’s underrepresentation in science. Everyone is interested—academics, politicians, parents, high school girls (and boys), women in search of college majors, administrators working to accommodate women’s educational interests; the list goes on. But one thing often missing is an evidence-based examination of the problem, uninfluenced by per...

For the Blue Waters Undergraduate Petascale Education Program (NSF), we developed two computational science modules, "Biofilms: United They Stand, Divided They Colonize" and "Getting the 'Edge' on the Next Flu Pandemic: We Should'a 'Node' Better." This paper describes the modules and details our experiences using them in three courses during the 2009-2010 academic year at Wofford College. These...

When college women study science, they tend to gravitate toward biology—about 58 percent of all bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in biology go to women . In contrast, women earn some 17 percent of bachelor’s degrees in engineering and computer science and just over 40 percent of bachelor’s degrees in physical sciences and mathematics. The likely reason for this, found [4]in the study ...

This paper describes a new undergraduate course that serves two purposes. First, it satisfies a general education requirement in mathematical sciences, and second, it serves as one of four possible first courses for computer science majors. The course has no prerequisites: the student population is drawn primarily from college freshmen. This paper focuses on the curriculum, which blends topics ...

SBTC is a powerful mechanism in explaining the increasing gap between educated and uneducated wages. However, SBTC cannot mimic the US within-group wage inequality. This paper provides an explanation for the observed intra-college group inequality by showing that the top decile earners’ significant wage growth is underpinned by the link between ex ante ability, math-heavy college majors and hig...

Introduction Do women approach the study of computer science differently from men? And does that difference work against their involvement in the field as it currently exists? Although substantially more women than men attend college, only 15-20% of undergraduate computer science majors at leading U.S. departments [Kozen & Zweben, 1998] and only 17% of high school computer science Advanced Plac...

Stereotypes associating men and masculine traits with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields are ubiquitous, but the relative strength of these stereotypes varies considerably across cultures. The present research applies an intersectional approach to understanding ethnic variation in gender-STEM stereotypes and STEM participation within an American university context. ...