According to the US Census bureau:
(T)he Standard Occupational Classification Policy Committee, consisting of representatives from 9 federal agencies, convened throughout 2011 at the request of the Office of Management and Budget to create guidelines for the classification of STEM workers. The final recommendations are available online at www.bls.gov/soc/#crosswalks. Based on this classification, STEM (now) includes computer and mathematical occupations, engineers, engineering technicians, life scientists, physical scientists, social scientists, science technicians, and STEM managers.From a list of degrees are a few athat are now considered STEM degrees:
- Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics
- Comparative Psychology
- Developmental and Child Psychology
- Experimental Psychology
- Personality Psychology
- Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology
- Social Psychology
- Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology
- Psychopharmacology
- Research and Experimental Psychology
- Sustainability Studies
- Behavioral Sciences
Huh - looks like they left Voodoo Doctors and Fortune Tellers off of their list.
ReplyDeleteThey left underwater basket weaving off the list. Accidently, I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering how someone would make a living with a degree in 15th century Belgian homosexuality. Looks like I'll be finding out real soon when they become in charge of everything.
ReplyDeleteThat's going to make it a whole lot easier to shovel in a bunch of Diversity Requirements as part of the standard syllabus. Gender Math Studies in Differential Equations and Structural Engineering in the White Patriarchy. Sad to see.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking as a guy with a degree in social psychology, it’s a real reach to include the various flavors of psychology in STEM
ReplyDeleteMaybe so, but Obama can truthfully claim to have increased the number of African-Americans with degrees in STEM fields by 85%
ReplyDeleteA while back we were at the library - they had changed STEM to STEAM.
ReplyDeleteA stood for (drumroll) . . . Arts.
(Facepalm)
John: No doubt, because of ALL the GREAT paying, HIGHLY productive jobs, simply going begging for degreed applicants, in Duh Aerts
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