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Professors are extremely open to international competition already. Universities can get cap-exempt H1B visas for professors and these visas. The same is true f
by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Professors are extremely open to international competition already. Universities can get cap-exempt H1B visas for professors and these visas. The same is true for non-profit research organizations, e.g. scientific research labs.
http://www.h1base.com/visa/work/july%202008%20cap%20exempt%20h1b%20visas%20jobs%20and%20sponsorship/ref/1195/ http://www.h1base.com/visa/work/july%202008%20cap%20exempt%2...
http://www.visapro.com/h1b-visa/h1b-cap-exempt-employers.asp http://www.visapro.com/h1b-visa/h1b-cap-exempt-employers.asp
From my time in academia, it seemed like a wildly disproportionate number of professors were born overseas. I have only 1 coauthor who was born in the US.
Your hypothesis that these folks would change their outlook based on greed and rent seeking seems to be falsified.
- mc32 10y agoTrue but _tenured_ professors don't have to fear foreign instructors, only aspiring domestic instructors need fear international competition.
- yummyfajitas 10y agoIt's merely anecdotal, but I observed no particular disparity in views between tenured professors (those at the end of the tournament) and graduate students (those at the beginning, currently in vicious competition with all the foreigners surrounding them).
- polotics 10y agoIt's merely anecdotal that if you want to get any chance of success in academia you have to exactly toe the line: a graduate student expressing "disparity" (dissent) would be out in no time.
- mc32 10y agoTo me, in some ways, it's not all that different from the people whose jobs get replaced by off-shoring or by remote workers --they will seldom say "no" to training the exact people who will be taking away their jobs. It's like a weird Stockholm syndrome.