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Cantwell, Moran Introduce Bill to Boost AI Education
Cantwell, Moran Introduce Bill to Boost AI Education
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), a senior member of the Commerce Committee, today introduced the bipartisan NSF AI Education Act of 2024 to expand scholarship and professional development opportunities to study artificial intelligence and quantum with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Cantwell, Moran Introduce Bill to Boost AI Education
Because It Can Shed Light on Representation in the STEM Workforce — Why Social Science?
Because It Can Shed Light on Representation in the STEM Workforce — Why Social Science?
Every 2 years, the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) within the National Science Foundation (NSF) publishes a congressionally mandated report on the demographic makeup of the population working in and studying science and engineering (S&E). For decades, the emplo
Because It Can Shed Light on Representation in the STEM Workforce — Why Social Science?
Data Analytics, Data Science Degrees See Large Increases in 2022 | Amstat News
Data Analytics, Data Science Degrees See Large Increases in 2022 | Amstat News
This fall’s release of the 2022 degree completion data from the National Center for Education Statistics is marked by the large increases in the undergraduate and master’s degrees awarded in the recently introduced categories for data analytics and data science. The number of bachelor’s degrees in data science, for example, jumped to 897 in 2022, from 165 in 2021 and 84 in 2020. For bachelor’s degrees in data analytics, the 2020, 2021, and 2022 numbers are 325, 455, and 767, respectively. The number of bachelor’s degrees in statistics also grew, albeit more modestly than in prior years: 5,408 in 2022, a 2 percent increase over 2021.
Data Analytics, Data Science Degrees See Large Increases in 2022 | Amstat News