Texas CEO Magazine May|June 2014 | Page 6

contributors “Public and private stakeholders must elevate education and talent development as our highest state priority and identify key areas that will help strengthen our state and local systems.” John Fitzpatrick is the Executive Director of Educate Texas. “There is a significant population of talented undergraduate STEM majors who do not yet know that they want to become teachers.” Kimberly Hughes is the Director of UTeach, a program started on the University of Texas at Austin campus in 1997. It has since expanded to eight universities in Texas and 39 university campuses in the U.S. “Yes, the state’s economy is healthy, but we Texans can’t ignore that we are participating in a global economy driven by science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).” James Thompson is the CEO and president of The InSource Group with offices in Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston.