2015 Massachusetts STEM Data Dashboard
September 2015
In 2003, the Massachusetts State Legislature created the STEM Pipeline Fund to address the growing talent shortage of STEM workers and designated the Department of Higher Education (DHE) as the administrator of the fund.
The DHE, with approval from the Governor’s STEM Advisory Council, contracted with the Institute to develop a new statewide science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) indicators system to benchmark Massachusetts’ progress in key educational and economic areas associated with the Pipeline Fund’s goals.
The result is the Data Dashboard that tracks the goals of the STEM Plan 2.0 and developed to present the data through three distinct views: 1) overall progress relative to each of the STEM goals, 2) overall state progress with respect to the national average, and 3) specific information related to subgroups.
