That’s the New America: making the world better for everyone ... except Americans.
America isn’t just for Americans anymore. These “Foreigners First” programs really suck.
I’ve often wondered why American students don’t apply to schools in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, North Korea and Indonesia.
When you have schools like UC Santa Cruz making it policy that they want minorities to be more than 50% of the students on campus, you have to expect this would follow. (I guess they never looked up the definition of minority.)
What do you think the odds are that once white Americans are the minority that will they be given “minority status”?
When I went to college my University reserved a large percentage of slots in the College of Engineering for foreign students.
This was in the early 80s and while in-state students were paying about $50 per credit hour the foreign student were paying well over $700 per credit hour.
The College upped the reserved seating two years in a row and the competition for the rest was immense. You were not even looked at unless your GPA was over 3.2. The foreign students were accepted into engineering school with the University average, which was 2.2 at the time.
It was all about the money.
Out-of-state/international $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
A friend of mine has said that it is more common to see foreign instructors in low-level courses than native American-born....as instructed by Department management. At least, in some disciplines.
I hate to say this but the reason for this probably has more to do with the intellectual laziness of US students vs. the foreign students than it has to do with diversity or PC run amok.
1. Foreign students pay full tuition plus the out-of-state premium, so foreign students mean more revenue for the school.
2. And foreign students are being chosen from a much more select group of top students, while US applicants likely come from a broader cross-section of all US college graduates.
But most all colleges are in love with quotas, so any college accepting state and/or federal support should be given a quote to limit how many foreigners than can admit. The American system of colleges and universities was not created and developed to serve foreign students and foreign nations.
It is a good thing the value of US citizenship has come to mean nothing to institutions built by US citizens and dollars.
This professor has never taken a foreign graduate student in spite of receiving hundreds of applications over the years. Call me prejudice, xenophobic, or kook, but to me citizenship has value.
Americans should stop paying taxes in this global Utopia. This land is not our land anymore.