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Companies Finance University Efforts to Improve Science Education

May 10, 2013 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

The Obama administration on Wednesday announced the selection of nine university groups for a $10-million initiative with corporate partners to improve the teaching of engineering to undergraduates.

Under the program, known as "Graduate 10K+," the selected public and private institutions will spend the next five years testing various strategies to raise graduation rates in the sciences. Currently only about 45 percent of undergraduates majoring in sciences complete their degrees.

"This is going to help create some replicable models for significantly improving retention and persistence and completion rates," said Thomas A. Kalil, deputy director for technology and innovation at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

By Paul Basken

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