Re:The future of the postdoc
by bsilvereagle on Sunday November 08, 2015 @10:39AM
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Anecdotally, ~50% of the faculty in my department at a large American public university are foreigners. I've been told, but not verified, that if you count dual-citizens, that number gets closer to 65%.
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Anecdotes are great.
Did some digging and found this article from 2012 which says that 38% of researchers in the U.S. are foreigners.
http://www.nature.com/news/global-mobility-science-on-the-mo...
> I've been told, but not verified, that if you count dual-citizens, that number gets closer to 65%.
Why on earth would you group dual citizens in the same category as foreigners?
Even if 100% of the faculty are dual citizens (Americans + something else), it would still be 100% American.
Because realistically, most of those dual citizens started out as foreigners and were eventually naturalized as a consequence of pursuing an academic career in the US.
My guess would be that a large number of dual citizens obtained their citizenship in the course of their scientific work. It speaks to the training problem we have.
Re:The future of the postdoc
by omginternets on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @03:47PM
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Because many foreign cultures value education more than the U.S., overall.