[nfbcs] [BlindMath] Science division reach its 2017 STEM scholarship goal

[Christopher Chaltain]

I agree with the post below. I also find it strange that someone has a 
problem with scholarships being given out in fields outside of STEM. If 
you don't want to support anything but scholarships in the STEM field 
then don't contribute to those scholarship funds. Personally, I support 
people's right to choose, both in what they want to study and what 
scholarship funds they want to donate to. I also think it would be a 
pretty boring world if we had people studying nothing but the STEM 
disciplines.

On 10/05/17 08:59, Mike Gorse via nfbcs wrote:
> I'm glad that the scholarship was funded. If blind students are
> interested in a STEM field and have the aptitude, then they should be
> able to study it and shouldn't be discouraged. At the same time, if a
> student has no interest in anything STEM-related but feels passionate
> about, say, helping disadvantaged children, then education or social
> work might be what s/he should study. While the prevalence of jobs and
> expected salaries are things that students should consider, their
> abilities and interests are also factors--if a student studies a field
> that s/he isn't well suited to, the s/he may have trouble finding work
> anyhow.
>
> A friend (who isn't blind) just posted this, while complaining that he
> was encouraged to study biomedical engineering when there are virtually
> no jobs in the field, according to him:
>
> https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/stem-still-no-shortage-c6f6eed505c1
>
> Someone else posted a link to this paper in response, which argues that
> STEM is to heterogeneous to say that there is or isn't a shortage.
>
> https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2015/article/stem-crisis-or-stem-surplus-yes-and-yes.htm
>
>
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Christopher (CJ)
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