Posted on 04/19/2018 7:23:25 AM PDT by Army Air Corps
Why?
Most American Universities are Progressive Communist Indoctrination centers.
Maybe they need unpaid agents to support the lavishly compensated, benefited and tenured ones.
Or maybe more taxpayer guaranteed student serfdom loans.
Our local domestic Communists already have that turf covered.
April 9, 2018
The chancellor of the Texas A&M system said the university would terminate its agreement to host Confucius Institutes — centers for Chinese language teaching and cultural programming funded by the Chinese government — in response to the urging of two congressmen who described the institutes as threats to national security.
An increasing number of politicians have in recent months urged American colleges to sever their ties with the Chinese government-backed institutes, but this appears to be the first time a university has explicitly cited a recommendation from elected officials as its reason for terminating a Confucius Institute agreement. Critics and supporters of the Confucius Institutes alike said they are concerned about external political influence over university decision making.
“The Chinese Communist Party Is Setting Up Cells at Universities Across America”
That would make the universities far more conservative.
The Confucius Institutes are low-hanging fruit. Many of them were not very active. What is described in the article that I posted is an effort to “crack down” on Chinese students and scholars abroad so as to insulate them from anything that is contrary to the official line of the PRC. What is interesting is the effort to encourage Chinese students/scholars studying abroad to inform on one another. The PRC is desperate to prevent any outside thoughts or ideas getting into the heads of their students who are studying abroad.
“The Chinese Communist Party Is Setting Up Cells at Universities Across America”
That would make the universities far more conservative.
Ya know, that makes sense.
I was lookin' at it as if the Chinese Commies wanted to make the Universities Commie when they already are, but what they don't want is THEIR proletariat going over to the side that has excellent perks for Commies, instead of daily drudgery and organ harvestng, thanks!
The number of Chinese nationals being educated at the University of Illinois is a scandal. In 2017 there were over 5,600 Chinese nationals enrolled as students at this single state university. That is out of around 12,000 total international students and a total student enrollment of about 45,000 (undergrad and grad).
So Chinese citizens make up almost 12.5% of the total student population (and foreign students as a whole make up over 25%). Given
China’s position as a global adversary this is ridiculous. And unlike many of the U.S. students who are studying womyn’s studies and other liberal arts nonsense, the Chinese are here for engineering, physics, chemistry, and other hard sciences, which U of I happens to excel in.
Why does this University go out of its way to bring in so many foreign students? Well, the state of Illinois is broke and has cut much of the state funding to its public colleges and universities as it struggles to just pay the bills and the outrageous pensions owed to retired government workers (which are not taxed at the state level, by the way). Foreign students not only pay full freight (unlike the less expensive in-state rate for Illinois high school graduates) but they also do not cause the college to incur the administrative costs of managing financial aid and student loans that out-of-state students from the rest of the USA would cause.
I’m sure they will get lots of help from many on the staff.
I know these numbers are hard to believe. Here are my sources:
http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/chinese-students-economic-impact-on-u-of-i/
http://isss.illinois.edu/download_forms/stats/fa17_stats.pdf
LOL, sad but true.
Of course the fact, that nobody in our government seems too overtly worried about this, is probably the most distressing thing about this.
Yamamoto once studied at Harvard.
That’s not even a joke - the Chinese are 100% pro-business, which is far more likely to get them kicked off campus than any Communist ideology they may express.
I’m not arguing we shouldn’t accept any students from China but to have this many is dangerous as it only builds up the technical prowess of our greatest geopolitical adversary.
Universities love foreign students since they pay full tuition.
Yep, and they also avoid any costly administrative overhead of dealing with federal student loans.
Would someone please explain why the heck we allow foreign students into our universities to take away from US citizens getting a college education.
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