Few Indian Graduate Students Want to Stay in U.S.

March 7, 2011, 3:58 pm

Only a small percentage of graduate students from India who are studying in the United States have a strong desire to remain in America indefinitely, says a new survey by Rutgers University, Pennsylvania State University at University Park, and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, in Mumbai. The survey found that 8 percent of about 1,000 Indians who are either pursuing or have completed a graduate degree “strongly prefer” to remain in the United States. The researchers said the findings were encouraging to Indian universities desperately trying to recruit faculty members from abroad to fill a vast number of vacancies at their institutions.

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lblake

Unfortunately, higher education has taught its publics that the only good answer to the eternal question “How’s your enrollment?” is “It’s up.” This stems from the days when some thought that increasing numbers guaranteed success or at least were evidence of it. We always have known that is not the case. Now, perhaps, we will begin to teach our publics that when resources are down, equipment is out of date, budgets are cut repeatedly, tuition/fees shoot through the roof annually, and all the rest–we must be frank in saying there is a finite number of students for whom we can provide a quality education given the resources we now have. The good answer to the enrollment question can also be “It’s steady” or even “It’s down, as planned.” Bringing increasing numbers of students to campus each term, regardless of our own awareness of decreasing ressources, eventually will be acknowledged as “doing less for more with less.”
allens

I suggest that anyone opposed to animal research should be opposed to
its results – namely, quite likely, their own life. (I would have died
at birth if it wasn’t for antibiotics developed using animal research,
and an awful lot of people – including, most likely, these “animal
ethicists” would have died if it wasn’t for vaccines, etc developed using animal research.)
lairdwilcox

This is the kind of thing that causes ordinary people to regard animal lovers as nutty and unbalanced. I can see new crimes created, draconian penalties established, fanatics demanding strict enforcement and and whole new class of animal-chasing legal parasites. We don’t need this and the animals don’t either. Go bother someone else with these wierd obsessions.
josephmr

I think you’re probably right – we can expect to see teams switching conferences as abruptly and in greater numbers, much like coaches now leave their current teams for bigger or more prestigious “programs” much more frequently, ala Brian Kelly. (Although obviously teams won’t be able to switch conferences mid-season, or right before a bowl game.)

I was wondering though, if I’m naive for thinking that the Big 10 will remain relatively stable? Even with Big 10 teams’ tendency to lose bowl games in recent years, I can’t imagine why anyone would want to leave the conference. It seems to me that no one’s going to be looking to flee the SEC either, what with the sporting press telling us repeatedly and breathlessly that the SEC is the toughest conference in college football.

Thoughts?
kurtosis

Big 10 stable? Let’s see, they brought in Nebraska because the conference has “high academic+research standards” and implies membership in the CIC (instead of letting CIC manage itself). Nebraska promptly gets booted from the AAU after more than a decade of warnings that were unheeded. Realignment makes Notre Dame look more alone… but the Big 10′s offer to ND was previously spurned.

Tthe Big 10 will be stable for its long-time core members; but, a reckoning is coming. The academics are getting tired of having the tail wag the dog. I suspect we’ll see either (1) Nebraska go and Notre Dame ignored until they get into the AAU; or (2) complete separation of the CIC and the Big 10 with the Big 10 then having funding cut (“because CIC will need to manage themselves, ya know… no punitive in any way”).
andyj

Is this guy out of touch or what? Of course it’s about money. He took this job not understanding that? Either he is a hypocrite or he is totally guileless.
goxewu

Tiny question: Are ADs the ones who, unilaterally, make decisions for the school to leave one conference and join another? If so, why bother having a President or a Board of Trustees?

Another, tinier question: Did the faculty athletic representatives get to sit inside the meeting room while the meeting went on, or did they have to stand out in the hall and promise not to try to eavesdrop?

It’s a cliché to use this cliché, but it’s all too apt: Mr. Emmert was, shocked, *shocked,* to find that big-time college athletic programs care mainly about money.
danieledoyle

I am an American who completed his doctorate in Europe and lived in such places as Rome, Paris, Vienna and several places in Germany. I have taught at Villanova Unviersity since 1994 and love the Wildcats’ basketball team and their intelligent coach, but I have taught many scholar athletes over the years and I am convinced that varsity sports programs are a huge drain on college’s limited finanical resources and a distraction from the central mission of a university to promote knowledge and critical thinking however much they foster alumni support and loyalty. Student athletes are not left with sufficient to read, study and reflect. yes. I’m afraid it is all about the money!
disembedded

Absolutely right!!
jeld56

Three cheers for all of the above posts – you are “right on the money.” Mark Emmert, previously Pres. of UW and the highest/one of the highest-paid university presidents in the USA, presided over football and basketball betting scandal at UW, then took another step up the big-time salary and power ladder, berating the ADs? Hypocrisy, thy name is Emmert.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Antsy-Kuhnwisse/100002159499682 Antsy Kuhnwisse

I liked it better the other way. It conjured an image of a down-to-earth, down-on-his-luck American former factory employee, hardworking and competent, but not so great in the department of grammar or all that other high-falutin’ kind of talk.
katisumas

Good grief!

What next? This rumor fits in the same category as the one that prevailed for centuries in Europe (and that you can still find on the web) that Jews eat Christian babies….
lindelltyann

What is most alarming to me is that we are so willing to pass on information without vetting it.
dtroop

Touché! Fixed. (Presumably Friedman had more than 15 minutes to write his lecture.)
fizmath

There are graduate departments in science and engineering where 50% of the students are from China. This was true even twenty years ago.
amberdru

As public universities are free, the program only applies to students at private universities.So why do so many of their citizens demand tuition assistance for U.S. schools?
StephenM123

Those Bantus aren’t pastoralists, not in tropical forest.Their lifestyle won’t be that different, especially when it comes to disease loads.