Fly With The Wind / McCoy Tyner
John Fraim
This whole discussion is so long overdue. So good it is finally being addressed. The initial strike from the administration through Homeland Security is taking student visas away from 27% of Harvard foreign students. (I was surprised at this huge percentage of foreginers Harvard is educating. Not to mention most were radicals against America) The administration’s order against Harvard losing its foreign students will cost Harvard approximately $500 million a year or $2 billion for the next four year class.
It’s about time our nation began looking at the number of foreign students our great universities are educating. In all of the dust that will be stirred up around the demand from the government of Harvard, the larger question is why are we educating so many foreign students? When many return to nations that are directly competing against our nation? It makes no sense to me.
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For example, a data base of percentages of foreign students in American higher education, undergraduates, masters, Phds, helps see the challenges and problems. I’m sure we have this now. Number of foreign graduates who stay in U.S. or return to their own nations should be tracked. Especially the percentage that return to direct enemies of the U.S. like China.
It seems a number of criteria could be worked out regarding American education of foreign students. There is little question that it is not in the best interest of the nation to accept foreign students over American students. The American university system should operate somewhat like the state college systems that give preference to residents of the state. All American citizens are “residents of the state” and be given preference over foreign students.
The money needed for Americans to attend our great universities should be funded by Congress. American universities should never be forced to accept foreign students because they can pay for education that their qualified counterparts in America can’t pay for.
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Perhaps the notion of putting a tariff on foreign students is an idea. It would work something like this: if a foreign student stayed and worked in U.S. and became a resident, there would be no tax on his/her services. However, if they left the U.S. and attempted to sell their services/products to the U.S. there would be a huge tariff placed on this.
The Harvard battle demands 27% of the Harvard student body find a different university or lose their foreign student visas.
A huge opening round shot has been fired by the administration against Harvard. But really a shot at te whole idea of America educating the rest of the world before its own students. American education should never yield to foreign students who can pay all money up front. Someone is behind funding foreign students (usually a government). Shouldn’t America be behind funding its own students over foreign students?
In effect, American students should always get preference over foreign students and even be subsidized to the extent that the foreign students are subsidized. Foreign governments subsidize their students so why shouldn’t America subsidize its own students? Over foreign students?
It is really the opening round of the argument that America should educate her own citizens before educating the world’s citizens. Especially the citizens of our greatest enemies.
Hopefully, opening up all of this up to this larger question of educating foreign students over American students in the first place. As Harvard educated doctor Robert Malone, MD & MS, notes in his substack post …
“The truth is that the battle is not just about Harvard, but also about the woke and racist policies that have become the norm throughout most higher academic institutions in America, and about the subversion of academia to become a tool of technology transfer to our adversaries to generate short-term revenue for academic bureaucrats and entitled socialist elites. Our colleges and universities have lost focus on their mission and purpose; the federal government and US taxpaying citizens should not have to foot the bill for their folly. Harvard has come to epitomize academic culture gone rogue … “
Just as Stanford became the poster child for censorship with its “Stanford Internet Observatory”. Just as the COVID crisis demonstrated for all to see, academic medicine has become the handmaiden of the biopharmaceutical-industrial complex. It should be a major decision as to how much we want to educate the foreign students of the world over our own students. Especially, when the foreign students are “sponsored” by foreign sources almost 100% of the time. Why shouldn’t America aid its own students over foreign students?
As I said, this whole discussion is so long overdue.