Since the 1980s the United States has faced growing disinterest and high attrition from STEM majors. Over the same period, foreign-born enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased steadily. This paper examines whether foreign-born peers affect the likelihood American college students graduate with a STEM major. Using administrative student records from a large public university in Califor...

Scientific and engineering innovation is vital for American competitiveness, quality of life, and national security. However, too few American students, especially women, pursue these fields. Although this problem has attracted enormous attention, rigorously tested interventions outside artificial laboratory settings are quite rare. To address this gap, we conducted a longitudinal field experim...

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In the 2007 and 2010 Status of Girls in Wisconsin reports, published by the Alverno College Research Center for Women and Girls, it was found that while girls aspire to go to college, there may be some threats to their ability to attain or complete those aspirations. This was true especially for those aspiring to nontraditional majors such as the sciences, engineering, or mathematics. This pape...

The implementation of the “Guangdong Cuisine Master” project in Guangdong Province has promoted development school-enterprise cooperation integration production and education higher vocational culinary majors, education, as well collaborative have become main direction reform talent cultivation model for majors. Through establishment an industrial college, construction a community shared destin...

College English is a compulsory public basic course for non-English majors in Chinese universities, it also called “Public English” undergraduates. Since the Ministry of Education China formulated Curriculum Requirements (hereinafter referred to as “Curriculum Requirements”) on January 2, 2004, series reforms teaching have been carried out by universities accordance with social demands. Based t...

In order to understand the status quo of entrepreneurship education in universities in Shanghai, this article draws data from a survey on college students in Shanghai. The sample covers a wide range of students from different majors, school years, and regional backgrounds. The analysis focuses on their recognition of entrepreneurship education, the curriculum, and the preparation of entrepreneu...