Thank God the foreigners are keeping U.S. education afloat, since Amurkns can't do it anymore:
"Study: Foreign Students Added to Economy" by TAMAR LEWIN
While foreign students at American colleges and universities are most often singled out for their scientific and cultural contributions, their growing numbers help make them an increasingly important economic force as well, according to a new report from the Institute of International Education.
In the 2006-7 school year, the report found, international students’ net contribution to the United States economy was nearly $14.5 billion — up a billion dollars from the previous year, the largest annual increase to date.
Allan E. Goodman, president of the institute, a nonprofit organization that promotes international study:
“These are foreign people buying an American product, and the Department of Commerce says international education is our fifth-largest service export, bigger than medical services. It’s a huge factor in a lot of cities, including New York, where international students contribute about $1.5 billion, more than the Yankees, the Mets, the Rangers, the Knicks and the Giants combined.”
The number of foreign students in American institutions of higher education, from community college to graduate school, increased 3 percent over the previous school year, to 582,984, the report found. This followed three years of declines, and brought the total back to almost exactly the number of students that came to the United States for the 2001-2 year, just before the 9/11 attacks.
Weren't Atta and the alleged hijackers students? You smell a stink, readers?
Those enrolling in the United States for the first time surged 10 percent last year, a statistic considered important because those students are likely to study in the United States for several years.
Over all, foreign students spent more than $20 billion in 2006-7, about half on tuition and fees and half on living expenses. The report estimated that $14.5 billion came from the students’ home countries, mostly from personal and family sources. According to the report, which was largely financed by the State Department and is being officially released on Tuesday, fewer than a third got their primary financing from United States sources.
The economic contributions grew so quickly last year because of tuition increases, Dr. Goodman said, and because more foreign students were in expensive certificate programs that offer few scholarships.
The economic impact of the international students was provided by Nafsa: Association of International Educators, based on the institute’s international student data, and made part of the report, Open Doors 2007.
For several years, India and China have sent the most students here, together accounting for more than a quarter of last year’s international students. Most experts expect the numbers to continue to grow.
Dr. Goodman, adding that only the United States could absorb the demand:
“Next to water, the biggest shortage in the world today is probably higher education.”
So why are Americans getting stiffed?
Saudi Arabia sent more than twice as many students here in 2006-7 as it did the previous year; the number of Japanese students declined 9 percent.
Where the alleged hijackers came from?
The University of Southern California and Columbia University had the most foreign students last year, with New York University in third place.
Graduate students are half the international enrollment, but in the last six years, community college students have generally been the fastest-growing segment."
And this is why your tuition is so high.
All while schools fall apart and we got no money for NUTHIN'!!!!:
"Increased Compensation Puts More College Presidents in the Million-Dollar Club" by JONATHAN D. GLATER
Soaring compensation of university presidents, once limited to a few wealthy institutions, is becoming increasingly common, with the number of million-dollar pay packages at private institutions nearly doubling last year, and compensation at many public universities not far behind.
Like pigs at a trough!
Presidents at 12 private universities received more than $1 million in the 2005-6 school year, the most recent period for which data on private institutions is available, up from seven a year earlier, according to an annual survey of presidential pay to be released today by The Chronicle of Higher Education. The number of private college presidents earning more than $500,000 reached 81, up from 70 a year earlier and just three a decade ago.
The survey also found that the number of public university presidents making $700,000 or more rose to eight in 2006-7, the reporting period for public institutions. Only two public university presidents made $700,000 in the previous period. The survey did not include E. Gordon Gee, who took over at Ohio State University earlier this year and whose $1 million pay package, before bonuses, is probably the highest of any public institution.
Patrick M. Callan, president of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education in San Jose, Calif.:
“If your aspiration is to be a college president, that is a way to become a millionaire. That was inconceivable 20 years ago.”
So that's what the INDOCTRINATION, er, um, education SYSTEM is now, huh?
The way to make a million dollars?
To hell with the kids and their needs, huh?
The survey results continue a trend, even as some students, their families and lawmakers have questioned whether such generous packages for college presidents have contributed to the rising cost of college.
Mr. Callan: “The public has kind of lost confidence in the altruistic mission of higher education. They see higher education as just another institution that’s in it for its own bottom line.”
Damn right, you fucking money-grubbing indoctrinators!!
John W. Curtis, director of research and public policy at the American Association of University Professors, said rising pay to presidents was consistent with a “corporate mindset” at colleges, reflecting “the idea that you have a single person who essentially is running the place.”
Oh, so COLLEGES are like DICTATORSHIPS now?!?!
So EVERYTHING in this world, every institution comes down to A SINGLE DICTATOR now, huh?
And what about our precious democracy -- which academia is supposedly vigilantly guarding?
Pfffffffffttttt!!!!
Everything we've ever been told is a lie!!!!!!
But officials at high-pay institutions defend the salaries, saying they result from intense competition to hold onto talented executives necessary to help build institutional wealth and prestige. They say that running a large university is increasingly similar to running a corporation.
Sig Heil!!!!
If this is the case, then fuck AmeriKa's indoctrina... I mean, "educational" system!
For example, Howard E. Cosgrove, chairman of the University of Delaware board, in a statement described the growth in his institution’s endowment and in the number of grants and contracts to faculty during the tenure of David P. Roselle, who retired this summer as the university’s president and who was the top earner at a public institution, not counting Mr. Gee. Mr. Roselle received $874,687 in salary and benefits and for serving on a corporate board. Mr. Cosgrove called Mr. Roselle’s work “outstanding in every aspect.”
The other top earners at public institutions in 2006-7 were John T. Casteen III of the University of Virginia, with $753,672, and Mark A. Emmert of the University of Washington, with $752,700.
The survey identifies Richard M. Freeland of Northeastern University as the highest paid president of a private university in 2005-6, with annual compensation of nearly $2.9 million. James P. Gallagher of Philadelphia University comes next with just under $2.6 million, and William R. Brody of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore is third with slightly more than $1.9 million. Mr. Freeland stepped down in 2006 and Mr. Gallagher in 2007.
Not like all that money is needed for the kids, huh?
When do AmeriKa's institutions and the people running them quit lining their pockets at our expense, America?
When?
For the first time the survey, which reported on 1,017 institutions, included presidents of community colleges, who generally earn less than their counterparts at public and private four-year institutions even though some community colleges are larger than some public universities.
The presidents at half of the 68 community colleges surveyed make less than $250,000 a year. The most highly paid president in 2006-7 was Michael B. McCall of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, with $610,670 in total compensation.
Richard Bean, chairman of the board of regents of the system, said the pay package was appropriate and added that Mr. McCall got the same percentage raise as members of the faculty."
As a former graduate, I'll tell you that none of the campuses I attended matched the charge.
They were all less than desired, and quite a rip-off! For the amount payed.
That's AmeriKan Education all right!!!
