Fewer foreign students are enrolling in business schools in the United
States, forcing many schools to recruit more aggressively overseas to
maintain a globally diverse student body, The Wall Street Journal reports. Foreign students made up 24.8 percent of the schools’ enrollment in 2009-10, down from 26.5 percent two years ago, according to AACSB International: the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Much of the increased competition is coming from business schools in Asia, according to an analysis of students taking the Graduate Management Admission Test.
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14 Responses to International Enrollment Is Down at U.S. Business Schools
wdabc - November 7, 2010 at 2:51 am
If larger enrollment is the objective, I suggest the government and it’s educational advisors permanently close all unaccredited diploma mills.
If exposure to diversity is the objective, I suggest the American students enroll in a foreign university for one or more semesters.
sps2sedu - November 3, 2011 at 5:11 pm
Classic narcissistic personality disorder. See
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001930/
director19 - November 3, 2011 at 5:11 pm
He did it because he could. Academics are so arrogant. I am not one bit surprised. Consider how many studies are proven rediculous over time. He who yells loudest wins.
juan_calle - November 3, 2011 at 5:11 pm
The quoted statement seems to contradict your bitter comment. It was young academics who came forward despite great professional risk. No doubt this courageous act was a product of their personal character and, in some measure, nutured by their academic experience.
amcneece - November 3, 2011 at 5:23 pm
This is just the tip of the iceberg. We will never know how many researchers are either making up their data out of whole cloth – or “fudging” the data to make it fit their hypotheses.
themarm - November 3, 2011 at 5:42 pm
I doubt that he feels shame. Two of my relatives have antisocial personalities; the more brazen and damaging their deceitful behavior, the happier they are. I’m sure he’s caused considerable pain for the other people in his life, including his own family.
tee_bee - November 3, 2011 at 5:50 pm
I think his point is that senior faculty can often be so ossified that they don’t make the effort to find the source of an obvious stench. At a university I worked at–one with a go along to get along culture–it was my junior colleagues who finally called out a former dean as a near-total fraud. No senior professor had the fortitude to do so. That’s the point.
old nassau'67 - November 3, 2011 at 8:20 pm
Agreed. Make that “well tenured”.
raymond_j_ritchie - November 3, 2011 at 10:55 pm
Tell people what they want to hear and you can get away with almost anything. The smarter a psychopath is the harder they are to catch. Usually it is a casual fudge that gets them caught such as marine ecology survey data for dates when the researcher was overseas and could not have collected the data. Everything falls apart within hours.
romanxp47 - November 3, 2011 at 11:30 pm
He’ll do fine; this guy was born to start a religion.
freedom33 - November 4, 2011 at 3:07 am
And this is why I teach my first year psychology students how to read a peer reviewed article and scientific study. Remember how the topic posed, probed, the persuasion, and who promotes it, are all factors. I taught this every semester, and some loved it and some hated it, and then loved that they went through the torture of critical analysis. We need to never be lethargic. Especially with social psychology, and especially during this particular time in history.
gringo_gus - November 4, 2011 at 4:37 am
Was this guy’s work ever incorporated into meta-studies ? If so those will be flawed as well…..
Dylan S - November 8, 2011 at 11:55 am
“He and he alone was in charge of his data. Others were not allowed access to it”
I work and publish in the field and this statement shocked me. I don’t know ANYONE who works this way. The only reason I could imagine wanting to work this way is so that you can fabricate data. This would have been a huge red flag for me–I like to think I never would have worked with him or published with him under these conditions–but that’s easy for me to say. Apparently he was both convincing and charming. Still….(shakes head)
DarwinWeeps - December 29, 2011 at 5:28 pm
ellenhunt writes: “Plagiarism is rampant, tricks like this guy played, squeezing vulnerable
post-docs to make up data to fit a thesis when an experiment went bad,
hiding the cherry picking of data and more. It’s done all the time. And
NOBODY does a thing about most of it. It’s toxic sludge to an academic
career to touch it.”
WOW, that’s a pretty remarkable claim. I’m not in your field but I can’t help but be skeptical that these improprieties are anywhere near as widespread as you claim. Making broad unsupported claims is easy and dangerous. Let’s see the evidence. Even if you disclose what you purport to know anonymously, it will get attention. Outlets like the Chronicle thrive on scandals like this–even more so if there’s any evidence of coverup or willful negligence.
Or are we just to take your word for it without evidence, as Stapel demanded of his colleagues?