Tom Friedman in this morning's NY Times. Only a blind person could not see this happening....
Nat >>I took part in commencement this year at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, one of America's great science and engineering schools, so I had a front-row seat as the first grads to receive their diplomas came on stage, all of them Ph.D. students. One by one the announcer read their names and each was handed their doctorate - in biotechnology, computing, physics and engineering - by the school's president, Shirley Ann Jackson. The reason I had to laugh was because it seemed like every one of the newly minted Ph.D.'s at Rensselaer was foreign born. For a moment, as the foreign names kept coming - "Hong Lu, Xu Xie, Tao Yuan, Fu Tang" - I thought that the entire class of doctoral students in physics were going to be Chinese, until "Paul Shane Morrow" saved the day. It was such a caricature of what President Jackson herself calls "the quiet crisis" in high-end science education in this country that you could only laugh...... <continued>... >> http://select.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/opinion/23friedman.html?hp=&pagewanted= print
