Yet Americans with the right qualifications - PhDs or other terminal degrees - can’t get hired at American schools. All Indians and Communist Chinese
Back in 1985, I graduated with a degree in Mathematics. I decided to apply for the Masters program at the same school. I was accepted but was informed that there were no scholarships/assistantship available. That was unusual since there were usually at least five available every year. I had a 3.8 GPA and had already taken half of the courses for the Masters program as an undergrad. It just wasn't me that was turned down. There were 2 other students that were turned down as well. The scuttlebutt was that the head of the grad department gave all of the scholarships to Chinese students ( which by the way was in violation of state law at the time. There was a law on the books that no state money could be given to a member of the Communist party. At that time, any Chinese student studying overseas had to be a member of the party ). What really pissed me off was that summer there was an article in the Wall Street Journal about the lack of American students in graduate programs in the US. They interviewed this professor and he had the gall to say that the " the scholarships are there for the taking, but there are no students applying for them". It turns out the following year, this professor had a full 2 year sabbatical in Beijing paid for fully by the Chinese. Now my brother went to the same school and graduated 2 years later. I looked at the graduation guide that lists all of the students who got their degrees. Sure enough, in the Mathematics program ALL of the Masters awarded were to Chinese students. There was not one American among them. At least 3 of these students already had a Masters degree in Mathematics from a Chinese university. Were they really there to earn a degree or was it for something else ?