Chakaia Booker, Acid Rain, 2001, rubber tires and wood, overall: 120 x 240 x 36 inches; each armature (3 total): 80 x 48 x 1 inches; tire pallet (12 total): 22 x 48 x 40 inches. National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. Museum purchase: Members’ Acquisition Fund © Chakaia Booker. Photo by Lee Stalsworth.

Education

The US system of higher education confronts a range of complex and systemic problems that compromise its ability to serve many of its students and society more broadly. The essays here not only identify many of these challenges, but also offer concrete ways to better educate and train the next generation of science and technology leaders.