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UofM MSU leaders in inational studies
These state supported institutions are taking leadership in the education of foreign students. They have really lost focus of the tax payers objectives when funding them. There are so many unemployed in Michigan. Instead of these institutions providing training to Michigan residents to ease the transition they choose to educate foreign students many of which see the U.S. schools as a path to a job in the U.S. The statistics in the article indicates that there are about 650,000 foreign student in the U.S.. That is 650,000 slots that might have gone to U.S. students and a large number of jobs ultimately lost to these foreign students.
mercantilist
These state supported institutions are taking leadership in the education of foreign students. They have really lost focus of the tax payers objectives when funding them. There are so many unemployed in Michigan. Instead of these institutions providing training to Michigan residents to ease the transition they choose to educate foreign students many of which see the U.S. schools as a path to a job in the U.S. The statistics in the article indicates that there are about 650,000 foreign student in the U.S.. That is 650,000 slots that might have gone to U.S. students and a large number of jobs ultimately lost to these foreign students.
Ken Burns
Ken Burns documentaries have an element of Doctor Quinn medicine woman about them. If you look at the 1940 and 1950 censuses their were very very few Hispanics in the country. The days of cheap labor illegal immigration started later. Yet Mr Burns violating the spirit of honest history introduced Latino voices in the second world war film. He did so under pressure from the Hispanic Lobby. Should he do a documentary on the war of independence I now expect he will introduce a Hispanic battalion.
msu bomb
Dumbness. Placing the bomb in a yard, these people apparently did not intend major damage. If they did not intend major damage anything like 20 years in prison is absurd. Our laws in many instances are too severe. Not only that but but felony convictions eliminates most employment opportunities. Simply forever increasing the penalties for crimes is not a particularly effective deterrent. In some cases such as the severe penalties associated with rape and kidnapping may in fact motivate murder.
One are where society has gone too the other extremes is the treatment of illegal immigrants. Usually the worst penalty for the crime is deportation. In a sense that is not penalty at all just an end to the crime. A recent survey indicates the 700 million world wide want to move to another country- the U.S. is most frequently the preferred destination. Without enforcement the bad illegal immigration problem will be worse.
Ann Arbor Civil Rights
Oh the benefits from diversity and massive unemployment combined with high immigration.
4 year degrees at community colleges.
Faculty members at community colleges generally do not produce research and are frequently out of touch with current research in the discipline. That said all of this has limited value for undergraduates. The much heavier teaching loads at community colleges keep the cost low. Many of the universities have two tier employment. They have the full time tenure track faculty and they hire a large number of part time people to contain costs. The senior faculty frequently regard teaching as a burden. The part time faculty are usually trying to balance the demands of their real job and the part time teaching job. Thus the community colleges is some ways offer more dependable instruction than the large institutions. Perhaps, it might be a good idea to take some of the elitism and costs out of education.
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