H1-Bs again: WSJ.com - Businesses Make a Push For High-Skilled Foreign Workers

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Suzanne Johnson <sjohnson () pobox com>
Date: April 6, 2006 11:49:35 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Fwd: H1-Bs again: WSJ.com - Businesses Make a Push For High- 
Skilled Foreign Workers

Dave..
possibly for IP....
        Suzanne


> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 08:41:51 -0700 (PDT)
> From: reece () pobox com
>
>
> For IP. The reason is I think the opening statement:
>
> "Last year, Stanford University awarded 88 Ph.D.s in electrical  
> engineering, 49 of which went to foreign-born students...."
>
> begs a question about admission policies and the shortage of native  
> engineering grads. Did Stanford get only 39 applications from US  
> citizens who met its minimum eligibility requirements? Or did it  
> turn down eligible US citizens in favor of foreigners with sexier  
> applications? For 30 years I've been hearing it gets 10-20X more  
> applications than there are slots so I suspect it's the latter.  
> It's a private school and can do pretty much what it wants but I  
> think the question is quite relevant to taxpayer-supported schools  
> like UC.
>
> By the way, pardon my xenophobia, but have you noticed that the  
> only time you see or hear the words "indispensable" or "talent"  
> associated with members of the American workforce it's only with  
> regard to the foreign ones?
> !
>
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>                                                     WSJ.com -  
> Businesses Make a Push For High-Skilled Foreign  
> Workers*                      This article will be available to non- 
> subscribers of the Online Journal for up to seven days after it is  
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> 2FSB114428412807618377-email.html&nonsubURI=%2Farticle_email% 
> 2FSB114428412807618377-lMyQjAxMDE2NDA0NjIwODY0Wj.html



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