AAS National Conference 2008: Susan Hackwood

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          • Sustaining institutions: UC, CSU, CCC, Stanford, USC, Caltech
      • Affiliate members: LBNL, LLNL, Sandia/CA, SLAC, NASA Ames, JPL
      • Over 160 CCST volunteers include:
            • 5 Nobel Laureates
            • 81 National Academies’ Members
            • 11 National Medals of Science and Technology Recipients
            • 12 Science and Math Teachers
      CCST
      • DOE and NASA
      • Federal Laboratory Affiliates
      • $5 billion in annual spending
      • More than 23,000 jobs
      • Partnerships with local industry
      • Collaboration with research universities in the state
      • Research opportunities for young university graduates as well as seasoned scientists
      • Science education for thousands of school students and teachers
      • Expert assistance to state and local governments
    1. Global Search for Talent
      • Attracting and retaining top technical talent
      • How to grow our own talent - given demographic trends
    2. Occupational Shares of Foreign‐Born Talent California and U.S. 2000 and 2006 Recruiting global talent
    3. Foreign Students
      • Foreign students no longer growing portion of total S&E degrees conferred
      • CA is not different from the U.S. as a whole
      Data Source: US Census Bureau Analysis: Collaborative Economics
    4. Skim best and brightest minds from across the globe
      • U.S. Nobel Prizes are ~ 40% foreign born; members of the National Academy of Sciences are ~ 25% foreign born (total >2000)
      • H-1B visa cap limiting, 65,000, > 150,000 applied in first day
      • Bill Gates notes that an H-1B hire creates several additional hires, as tech teams expand
      • India Shoots for the Moon: Last month India launched a space probe to the moon
      • NAFTA plus: Canada and France free the labor market so that skilled workers can move easily back and forth across the Atlantic
    5. Source: Department of Finance. California’s racial diversification 2006-2020 projection 2006 2020
    6. Failure to achieve in education will have economic consequences Projected Change in Personal Income per Capita by State, 2000-2020 Source: National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (2005)
      • The Shrinking Pie
      • Only 4% of 9 th graders graduate in S&E
      • Up to 60% lost in college
      • 32% CCC transfers
    7. How to grow our own talent
        • Teaching science in elementary schools
          • 54% of new science teacher hires do not hold a full or preliminary credential
        • Teacher professional development
          • Cal TAC – most effective and important
        • New Gates Systemic initiative
          • CA STEM Innovation network – CSU and CCST
            • National Academies, major foundations, informal education, technology

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