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A recent Science article highlights the impact increasing the number of H1-B visas could have on US scientists. Companies such as Google, Microsoft, and more recently Genentech have advocated for increasing the H1-B visa cap. Bill Gates has proposed that the cap be abolished. Increasing the cap is, of course, in the corporation’s best interests as such action will increase the prospective employment pool, and likely depress wages.
I don’t have a problem with companies lobbying for increases in the H1-B visa cap (that currently stands at 65,000.) Incredibly, the cap was reached on the very first day that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) began accepting visa applications for 2007. Read the rest of this entry »
A few months ago I was invited to attend a workshop hosted by the Council of Graduate Schools to discuss the role of entrepreneurship in graduate education. The goal of the workshop was to produce a set of recommendations for the advancement of entrepreneurship education at the graduate level. Much of the discussion focused on methods to incorporate entrepreneurship training into science and engineering graduate programs. Overall, there was great discussion amongst the 40 or so attendees (from universities across the country) and I’m anxious to read the resulting report that will be disseminated soon.
I believe there are 3 critical barriers that must be overcome to successfully foster entrepreneurship in science graduate programs:
1) Academic culture
2) Structure of graduate programs
3) Access to resources
I will address each of these issues in the coming weeks.
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