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Message: [QUOTE="Drew, post: 2538974, member: 3723"] [URL="http://dailycampus.com/stories/2018/1/22/r9gia1dxfqj1f1wzf20d7mkph0ul7q"]Editorial: UConn’s other fields deserve the same attention as STEM[/URL] [I]It is no secret that UConn is the kind of school to go to if you want a quality education in a quantitative field. As one of the top-rated public research universities in the country, it should come as no surprise that year after year, we churn out accomplished STEM students into the workplace where they are often extremely successful. A recent article in the UConn Today newsletter entitled “UConn’s STEM Pipeline” highlights the impressive achievements of the science and technology-based offices and boasts statistics of their growth over the past years. However, in this article, and in most of the virtual newsletter, there is a severe lack of talk about the university’s other academic departments, only serving to somewhat alienate the students and faculty involved with departments other than STEM. STEM fields are undoubtedly important both in and out of the sphere of UConn, and this article does well to describe this importance. It also speaks to the history of STEM and the growth of the field over our country’s lifetime. Most importantly, the article encourages STEM students, not just by sharing their impressive job statistics (with greater than 90 percent of STEM majors finding jobs within the state after graduation), but by telling personal success stories of students past and present that have gone through UConn’s “[URL='https://today.uconn.edu/stem-pipeline/?utm_source=launchdistribution&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email']STEM pipeline[/URL]”. It is unfair for one group of students to seem underappreciated or underrepresented in the school’s media as has happened in the past. We are a university with an extremely diverse population, and as such, we need to have readily available news that represents the diverse fields, majors, and interests that this school represents.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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