BHEF Publications
Policy Briefs
The Business-Higher Education Forum develops various issue briefs in connection with the BHEF's work and major initiatives. These briefs provide an overview of policy topics of significance to the business and higher education communities, and, in some instances, frame issues for discussion at meetings. Recent briefs, categorized by subject matter, include:
The STEM Student Achievement Challenge and the Federal Response
- Congressional Response to Ensuring America's Competitiveness (pdf Summer 2006)
- The Administration's American Competitiveness Initiative: Providing Federal Funding for Basic Research in the Physical Sciences (pdf Summer 2006)
- The American Competitiveness Initiative: Addressing the STEM Teacher Shortage and Improving Student Academic Readiness (pdf Summer 2006)
The Challenges of Globalization
- Economic Growth Through Increased College Enrollment (pdf Winter 2006)
- The Challenge of the New Demographics of Higher Education: Increasing Women and Minority Participation in the STEM Disciplines (pdf Winter 2006)
- Collaborating to Address the Math and Science Teacher Shortage: A State-University-Business Partnership (pdf Winter 2006)
- Liberal Education and America's Promise: The Aims and Competencies of a 21st-Century Liberal Education (pdf Winter 2006)
- STEM Business-Research Collaboration (pdf Winter 2006)
