In Europe it is common practice to force professors into retirement at specific ages. Retirement age depends on the policy of each country. It is a form of age discrimination and is rightly considered unethical by American standards. European professors are beginning to ‘retire’ into the American University system in significant numbers. This practice forces them to forfeit their retirement benefits in most European systems. They wish to continue to work and that is highly laudable. The European education system allows professors to have much more discretion in their dealings with their employees/students than the American system does. These European practices are almost feudal by American standards. We have experienced some serious culture clashes within the Ameican system due to the influx of Eurpean style professors. American students often refuse to behave in accordance with the expectations of a Professor trained in European style education systems.
Homegrown tenure candidates are being displaced by foreign professors. Tenure has been earned by most of these distinguished investigators and teachers prior their coming to our Universites. Most of our large Universities’ payrolls are funded through their own State Governments. Many of the States have been in financial trouble for the last two years. In Nebraska, we have witnessed the removal of tenured professors from the State payroll. I would like to add that the football program has enjoyed an increase in funding at the same time. Not really an important issue, but it does demonstrate a clear prioritization concern. I digress. The wave of experienced professors is good for business. They have established ties to funding vehicles. They offer experience to our system. They build their programs by recruiting a large proportion of their students and post-docs from their own countries of origin. These foreign students pay higher tuition fees than our children do. Is this good for the income of the University? When you start tracking the sources of the funds, some very disturbing facts appear. Much of the funding is directly from our US government. This happens by way of program granting and Specific Cooperative Agreements. Other funding is obtained from our tax dollars through incentives in place to recruit foreign students from other countries. Our tax dollars are paying for a significant dilution of the opportunities for OUR children. Increasing competition is usually good. In this case, I see a pattern of abuse.

Pakistan has sent many students into our University systems in the last thirty years. In some engineering departments they became a majority for a time. Nuclear engineering has been one of their target programs. Through our liberal global education policies, we have willingly created another nuclear power in the world at a time when proliferation appeared to be decreasing. Pakistan’s head of nuclear arms development recently admitted to supplying vital “secure” data to our sworn enemies. This declaration was made in a worlwide news release. The reason appears to be simple greed. The fact that the Pakistani president put this man on stage to admit to his “digressions”, and then immediately pardoned him, is a clear indication of how much respect we are being granted for our globalization policies. Pakistan is a declared ally of the U. S. I have serious doubts that they walk the walk.