STEM:An Entrepreneurial Approach

Abstract: STEM: An Entrepreneurial Approach was the keynote address given by Dr. Keith T Miller, president of Virginia State University at the 2011 Advancing the STEM Agenda Conference. It was published in the Division's Quality Approaches in Higher Education Vol. 2 No. 2 (Nov. 2011). It discusses the need for STEM majors and how we must have the mind-set to educate one STEM student at a time. It describe a strategic plan for recruiting more STEM students to our universities and the importance of an entrepreneurial approach to exciting students about the STEM fields. We can improve the quality of our STEM education by adopting these approaches.

Keywords: Quality Approaches in Higher Education - STEM