UC joins effort to improve educators

The University of Cincinnati is among 107 universities around the country that have joined the Science and Math Teachers Imperative, an effort to address the lack of qualified science and math teachers in middle and high schools.

The initiative, launched by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, requires universities to commit to working with their state governments to identify short- and long-term needs for teachers in the state school systems, to increase the number of science and math teachers in state high schools, and to build partnerships with other universities and schools to meet the need for more teachers.

UC students will get a unique opportunity to learn non-traditional teaching techniques next year when the Hughes Center opens as a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) school.

It is hoped that, as a by-product, the Hughes Center's STEM education program will steer more teachers into these fields.

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