[Nepeta]

What's important though is that perhaps it will interest enough people to become scientist and engineers.

Science gets a lot of lip service, but companies don't want to PAY for technical expertise. They want it cheap, and they want to hire it in the form of contractors. This is not the way to make new technology happen. I would not advise anyone to go into the sciences--the courses are tough, you end up spend 20 class hours for a 5 hour credit because of the lab courses, and then when you graduate, you find yourself reporting to some slug with a marketing degree. It only gets better as you gain experience, because your experience is downgraded--"entry level" jobs with 3-5 years industrial experience. This country has to get serious about employing the technical people we already have before hatching out legions more.

[Tailback]

I’ve had this feeling for awhile that the internet revolution will lead to specific Universities losing power, while certain Professors will gain power almost reaching superstar status. If you can pick and choose which professor you learn from nationwide for credit in a specific course, why choose some nutcase liberal? Why would anyone not choose Victor Davis Hansen for classical studies?

[muawiyah]

We are currently short of “technical people”. Somebody forgot to have our people go to college at engineering schools.

[Sprite518]

What seems to be the trend from graduates these days is that they have to go global for jobs now. What I’m hearing is that most U.S. graduates are going to places like Singapore, China, India and even some to Europe for a good paying job. While foreign born students are taking the jobs here for what you said less pay. At least that is what I have heard.

We had a period of time in our country when most people where farmers. Then in the industrial age people moved to the cities for the jobs. Then during the information age people moved to different states and now we are in the global community, like it or not, where students have to move to other countries for jobs.

Thanks to our politicians both Democrat and Republican.... This is why they do not give a dam about the borders.