Report: Economy Misses Out With Low Latino, Black STEM Employment

By Ronald Roach, Diverse Issues in Higher Education

The U.S. workforce could employ as many as 140,000 additional African-American and Latino college graduates in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields annually if the gap in college completion in STEM by Blacks and Latinos closed to roughly match that of the White and Asian American STEM graduation rates, according to a new report released by the Washington-based Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies think tank.

“That figure is derived from the fact that African-Americans and Hispanics are under-represented in higher education generally and that, once they are there, graduate with degrees in [science and engineering] and [science and engineering-related]  related fields at a far lower rate than their White and Asian American counterparts,” the report said.

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