Government Affairs Reports
These reports underscore the data-driven approach that the APS Government Affairs team takes to advancing APS’s policy priorities.
The United States is facing a chronic STEM workforce crisis — a result of decades of complacency and insufficient funding — that is set to damage our country’s competitiveness and economic prosperity.
This report offers policy recommendations aimed at reformulating current research security policies to increase the ability of the United States to attract and retain international talent.
Surveys of more than 3,200 physics professionals and students show that the U.S. federal government’s current approach to addressing research security concerns is weakening, not strengthening, the U.S. scientific enterprise.
New APS survey results reveal that more than two-thirds of the international, first-year physics Ph.D. students who were slated to enroll in fall 2020 are still not on campus.
An APS Office of Government Affairs (OGA) issue brief highlights the impact of the pandemic on the scientific enterprise.
The APS Office of Government Affairs has released a new report titled “Building America’s STEM Workforce: Eliminating Barriers and Unlocking Advantages.” This report synthesizes a wide array of publicly available data and reports — complemented with surveys of physics department chairs and APS members — to generate an understanding of a set of current challenges and opportunities for action related to building America’s STEM workforce.
Recent surveys by the American Physical Society of physics department chairs and international physics students reveal that the U.S. is losing its ability to attract the best students in the world, with an average two-year decline of -22% in international applications to physics departments outside the top tier.
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