STEM continue to boom through 2020
One of the National Convergence Technology Center’s (CTC) sister ATE Centers, the Mid-Pacific Information and Communication Technologies Center (MPICT) alerted us to a new report from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). This report looked at strategies to improve the computer science pipeline. While the focus was on strengthening K-12 curriculum, creating new pathways, and developing new programs, the findings obviously impact community college programs.
Some highlights of the report:
By 2020, one of every two jobs in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) will be in computing.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) predicts that 62% of new STEM jobs created through 2020 will be computing jobs. Engineering is a distant second place at just 20%.
The BLS further estimates that 150,000 new computing jobs will open annually between now and 2020.
The Congressional Budget Office predicts that by 2019, 90% of all physicians will use electronic health records, a move spurred in part by the federal HITECT Act of 2009.
The BLS reports that only 25.6% of computer occupations in 2012 were women, 7.4% African-American, and 6.1% Latino,
Only 17 states currently allow an AP computer science course to satisfy a core high school math or science course.
In 2012, less than 3% of the more than 1 million students who took AP exams in STEM subjects took the AP Computer Science exam.
The report also offers a detailed look at successful new computer science initiatives in Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Utah, Washington, and public school systems in Los Angeles and Chicago.
You’ll also find state-by-stare charts and figures for computer science jobs and salaries and also high school graduation requirements and AP exam breakdowns
The whole report can be found here: