Seems that, with US universities and colleges on the ropes financially everywhere and all the time (the public schools especially, since legislatures are responsible for their budgets), the default play these days is to try to fill out the enrollment and the college's bottom line with overseas students -- and China has the most.
Call it the collegiate equivalent of the gardener/tomato-harvester shortage. It's all because American women decided they wanted to be career women back in 1968.
Neat anecdote.
I don't understand this part, though:
Call it the collegiate equivalent of the gardener/tomato-harvester shortage. It's all because American women decided they wanted to be career women back in 1968.
What happened in 1968?
I thought women made the move into the workplace during WWII, when all the men were off at war.
The worst part is that a lot of these students from the PRC get graduate teaching or research assistantships, so we (TAXPAYERS) are funding their schooling in the US!