Bereft of outside research, I was responding to the article, which stated, "Over the past 25 years the total number of students in college has increased by abou

Bereft of outside research, I was responding to the article, which stated, "Over the past 25 years the total number of students in college has increased by about 50 percent. But the number of students graduating with degrees in science, technology, engineering and math (the so-called STEM fields) has remained more or less constant."