Professors at METU who have contacts at--and often degrees from--Georgia Tech smooth the students' path to Atlanta.
SparkTruck literally parks a engineering bench outside of schools, let's students play with the latest in maker technology, and has managed to have a measurable impact on students' path towards a career in science.
And while English-language ability helps in the job market, it isn't critical to many students' career paths.
Teaching not rote facts and figures, but instead teaching students the paths to find this knowledge on their own.
Last year the Wellcome Trust published two studies that looked at trust-funded PhD students' career paths and levels of satisfaction with their training.
Nevertheless, the question concerning the efficacy of the systems described above requires a close examination of the relation between the students' navigational paths and the learning results.
Throughout those years, I have tried to be an intellectual guide, pointing my students toward paths of self-discovery.
Maine's Bates College and Alabama's Judson College, among others, have for decades actively offered applicants and students guided paths toward earning their bachelor's degrees in three years, though relatively few students take that route.
Clearly, though, the literature indicates that UR can have a substantial impact on students' career paths and the production of STEM majors.
