The Stem Crisis: Shortage or Abundance of STEM Graduates

From time to time, some minor voice on the shortage of  STEM graduates starts attract attention. Contrary to more dominant view that not only does STEM shortage exist, it may also be a crisis in the making, a recent IEEE Spectrum article questions whether such a crisis is real, which got my attention. A debate ensures and the discussion continues.

I would like to document the opinions of both sides that  I come across.  I'll come back to update this post when I come across new articles.

Motion: There is a STEM Crisis

For the Motion

• Rosen, L., The Truth Hurts: The STEM Crisis Is Not a Myth, The Blog, The Huffinton Post, September 11, 2013
• Xue, Y., Larson, R. STEM crisis or STEM surplus? Yes and yes

Against the Motion

• Teitelbaum, M.S., The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage, The Atlantic, March 19, 2014
• MAnft, M.,The STEM Crisis: Reality or Myth?, The Chronicle of Higher Eucation, November 11, 2013. [Cached PDF]
• Charette, R.N., "The STEM crisis is a myth," Spectrum, IEEE , vol.50, no.9, pp.44,59, September 2013. doi: 10.1109/MSPEC.2013.6587189
• Computer science graduates struggle to find work despite IT skills shortage
• Americans Won't Like Hearing The Real Reason That Silicon Valley Is Pushing So Hard For Immigration Reform
• Is there really a shortage of STEM graduates?
• Matloff, N., A Disappointing Paper on the Question of Possible STEM Shortages 

Neutral

• The supply of and demand for high - level STEM skills
• The STEM Crisis: scientifically supported?