The STEM Collaborative

Chancellor Richard Herman"At no time in history has it been more important for a society to have a shared and common knowledge in math, science, and technology. In our technology-rich world, with global competition— core skills in these areas are the price of admission to full participation in nearly every phase of life. I can think of no other institution better prepared to lead the way in redefining how we transform the teaching, learning, and practice of science and math than the University of Illinois."

- Chancellor Richard Herman


Current Collaborators with the College of Education

  • Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
  • The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
  • The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Graduate School of Library and Information Science
  • College of Engineering
  • Center for Nanoscale Chemical Electrical Mechanical Manufacturing Systems
  • Center for Advanced Materials for Purification of Water with Systems
  • Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

STEM Facts:

In the U.S., 1.25 million new science and engineering jobs will be created in the next 5 years.

U.S. schools will seek 240,000 new science and math teachers for middle and high schools by 2010.

In the next decade, 17 of the 20 fastest-growing occupations will be in health care and computer fields.

Scientific innovation has produced nearly half of all U.S. economic growth in the last 50 years.