Collection

2016 Public Policy Colloquium

Authors

Jim Garrett; Amr Elnashai

Immigration Reformrelated to International Students Moderated by: Jim Garrett, Carnegie Mellon University Amr Elnashai, Penn State University February 9, 2016Session ObjectivesWith just under 1 million foreign students in US higher education, weneed to:• Hear and contrast the nuanced pros and cons of mechanisms for retaining foreign STEM graduates• Have an open-minded, respectful discussion based on data and metrics• Determine what position (if any) we deans as a group should be promoting related to this issueSample of Arguments for Benefits• “Every foreign-born student who graduates from a U.S. university with an advanced degree and stays to work in STEM has been shown to create on average