Meanwhile, earlier this month
a professor at the University of Arkansas who received millions of dollars in research grants, including $500,000 from NASA, was arrested and charged with one count of wire fraud. According to the FBI, Ang failed to disclose that he was getting paid by a Chinese university and Chinese companies in violation of university policy. He is accused of making false statements while failing to disclose his extensive ties to China as a member of the "Thousand Talents Scholars" program.
63-year-old Simon Saw-Teong Ang is the director of the school's High Density Electronics Center, which received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense (DOD) and NASA. Since 2013, Ang has been the primary investigator or co-investigator on US government-funded grants totaling over $5 million, according to the Washington Examiner.
The respective state legislators could have a big say in this if they would think for a minute and stop viewing the schools are sources of football & basketball tickets.
The legislatures could pass a state law regulating admission to state supported institutions where a state citizen has highest priority in admittance, followed by an American citizen, then a foreign student but only if there are slots available. (They did way back! Its on the books however its routinely ignored for foreign students!). Do the same for graduate students, let the only way to circumvent this is with a sworn signed statement with documentation that the potential graduate student’s skill are so spectacular and no American student who applied can match them. Failure to do so or produce false documentation is a state crime where the school and administrators (including the school President!) are subject to fine, expulsion and possible imprisonment. (I bet this law is also on the books in many places but again is routinely ignored!) It also should apply to foreign professors. I have seen this personally multiple times where a foreign prof (non-citizen or citizen foreign born) gets an administrative academic position. They then routinely hire their fellow landsmen. To them its not wrong!. In Turd World countries if tribe\clan A is successful in something like gets a lucrative position (or position of power!) its expected and morally right in their culture to make the gravy flow for their family, clan & tribe. I’ve seen a foreign chairmen of a department named & soon a heavy percentage the faculty hires (and grad students) are family, clan, tribe & nation.
I know the snappy sophisticated academic comeback for all of this is to claim there is “education value by having foreign students on campus!”. My answer is ‘Ok show me! Show me any measurable results where tests scores or grades of American students have improved due to the presence of foreign students.’
And yes I understand the foreign policy advantages of this, but I think they’re overstated. Likewise the “good deeds” & charitable considerations. You can have too much of anything even if it a first blush looks good!
Basically because its been abused so badly it just creates a loop hole where US taxpayers pay for the advancement of our adversaries. 360,000 thousand Chinese student nationals in US academia thats too many. After the PRC’s behavior over the Wuhan Flu right now one PRC student or prof is too many!
Do people realize there are 30,000 Iranian students here. I guarantee they are not taking liberal arts, “studies” & humanities! They’re taking STEM courses, again we are arming our adversaries.
