Deseret News – Menachem Wecker
“STEM has been a major educational focus on both a federal and state level, to say the least…By 2018, there will be 2.4 million job openings in STEM fields, predicts a study by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. On the one hand, integrating arts into STEM sounds like a no-brainer. How could a multidisciplinary approach drawing together the sciences and the humanities not improve upon what either could achieve on its own?…STEAM has “picked up steam” when art came to be viewed as creativity broadly, rather than something formal and technological, says Mark Nerenhausen, founding director of Syracuse University’s Janklow Arts Leadership Program. “It is the recognition that without creativity, all the technology training does nothing,” he says. “It was not just the technology skills, but the creativity, the insights and the new ways of thinking that make STEM so powerful.””(more)