My daughter will start high school in September at a STEM school. She had to take a test and have an above 90 grade in Science and Math! MAGA to my beautiful Giovanna!
Why are we importing so many STEM graduates from India via H-1B?
This isn’t new! In the 60’s there was a joke circulating that asked what do you call a Ph.D. in Physics? The answer was “a cab driver.”
“Fifty years ago, in my own area of experimental psychology, things were very different.”
I think I see the source of his concern. I bet sociology and anthropology majors are also having a hard time of it.
There will soon be a shortage of electricians, plumbers and oil rig workers.
There is an H-1B glut.
But there is also demand for such PhD’s in industry. Maybe they all can’t become tenured Ivy League professors, but they all should be smart and well-educated in their fields.
A glut? Get rid of H1B, fill those jobs. And restrict L1 and other visas. Send them all home.
Speaking of Accuracy in Academia, either put the apostrophe in the right place, or leave it out -- depending on the intended meaning.
Academic scientists discover unbreakable Law of Supply and Demand..................
This was a problem way back in the late 80’s-early 90’s.
There was a huge glut of electrical and mechanical engineers in the midwest. So much so that most of them could earn more as a technician in the trades than they could as an engineer.
It wasn’t just blue collar jobs that were going overseas in those days.
Since this article ONLY references university teaching positions, it is more than slightly misleading. By far the majority of STEM jobs is in private industry, even for PhD’s.
We need more people from $hithole$ to park in entry level tech positions for 10 years, and provide services that Americans just can’t do, because of the “free market” or something.
Sounds more like a glut of professional STEM students that don’t want to enter the real world.
Thankfully, we don’t have a glut in womyn’s studies, art history, and journalism.
We need more of these critical fields.
/sarc
They’re looking at the wrong part of STEM. The shortage isn’t in PHDs teaching the next wave, it’s in non-PHDs doing the actual work.
PhD’s looking to be professors are a different market than most STEM grads.
I could have told them this ten years ago.
Biological Sciences degrees, especially, are useful only as toilet paper these days. Unless you’re going into something specialized, like medicine. As for Veterinary, if you’re male, forget it.
I'm sure that you can over-educate yourself, though. In IT, sure, I'd love to see "B.S." on a resume. "M.S."? Maybe, depending on what it's in. "PhD"? I'd wonder why they were applying for the job....not too many PhDs in the work that I do. And, I'd wonder how long they'd stick around, particularly in a entry-level, or 2-3 years experience type job.
I thought about getting my MBA for about 5 minutes, until I found out that there was such a glut of them on the market that the place where I was hired MBAs to work the phones at 11-12 bucks an hour.
Never Mind.
I am sure the “E” in there is in high demand. Naval staring scientists, probably not so much.