The U.S. Brain Drain: How Policies Are Driving Talent Away

Beats the heck outta me.

I'm hoping we pull through for all Americans.

 

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Oh I know the D&D loves these brehs
But I’m not rooting for them !

go Rockets!

 

The EU starting to realize what a gift we are giving them.

(gift article)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/...e_code=1.E08.TgZK.EeQGAKsS2134&smid=url-share

 

I wonder what Macron thought of how those DEI students acted after getting a cake walk entry based on immutable characteristics

Asians , the actual brain power, are discriminated against so Joy Reid can feel empowered as a run of the mill rambling person

So Khalil can play pretend

You can't ignore the whole death to America while we use and abuse it for Marxist ideological reasons

It's a bold but necessary move , which will likely be temporary, to atleast put some fear in losers like Khalil and make complete incompetents like Claudine Gay think twice before gaming the system

If you want to study in the US, respect the host nation and try to integrate

 

Bill Ackman Says Harvard Losing Tax-Exempt Status Would Be Fair, Calls for Board Overhaul - WSJ

Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman said it would be fair for Harvard University to lose its tax-exempt status, but he doesn’t think it will come to that.

The investor and Harvard alum on CNBC Monday criticized Harvard Corporation’s leadership, including senior fellow Penny Pritzker. “It’s time for a change in leadership in the board at Harvard,” Ackman said.

 

US has now stopped Harvard from enrolling international students: Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students - The New York Times

It's obvious (except maybe to some posters here) that the Admin is openly and grossly abusing their powers to persecute Harvard for not kowtowing. I expect Harvard's suit will ultimately be victorious, so that strategy here is probably to make it so painful in the interim that they'll settle instead of going the distance.

 

Recent study shows what we suspected would happen in Florida. Not a stretch to now extrapolate to all of US academia.

 

The trump administration's massive cuts to medical research are an act of madness, in my opinion. More information in the video below:

Health expert calls Trump's medical research cuts "reckless destruction"

 

A friend who works at a research-heavy grant-driven state university notes 75% of the professors promoted to tenured positions this spring are women and at least a third of those are looking to move to another country. Suspicion is the number is higher. And I would bet some of the guys are considering it too--how could they not? (Note: apparently only two of the promotions came from the liberal arts while the rest were STEM or STEM related.)

 

This trend will continue for quite awhile, but not for the reasons you mentioned.

 

Enlighten me.

 

Good luck waiting for that response

 

We have reached peak American exceptionalism. But first, let me state that the education system as a whole is extremely dated and modern technology has made a significant portion obsolete. The best innovation is coming from small startups, often with founders who dropped out of university. (Much like NBA superstars who do the one and done then go straight into the NBA). University has become a status symbol for those who want to circle jerk on linked-in.

But ultimately that isn't the United States biggest problem. Almost any information in the world can be transferred in less than a millisecond. Money and idea's flow freely around the globe at the same speed. 100 years ago, it would take days or even weeks to transfer large amounts of data. Compression is exponential.
Unfortunately the US government lives in a different world. A very stupid world. Dated policies are entrenched in time, forever creating drag on innovation. Career politicians, elected back in a very different era, refuse to give up their thrones. And this is all before we get into the intentional design of a slow moving system.
Governments who can move quickly on policy decisions will fair better. It won't be the good ol style of American Democracy that we spread with the tip of a barrel. It will be efficiently ran governments who promote the well being of the country as a whole over special interest groups.

More and more privileged Americans will consider other countries to call home. Many people I know who are part of a multi-generational american family have talked about moving to other countries.

 

This is such an amazingly bad and bleak take posted with such earnestness I confess I can't tell if you are trolling or actually believe the stuff you just spewed. A couple of points if you are serious:

The world is not just tech and it is certainly not just tech innovation as you describe it here. You are describing applications, not learning. You need the latter before the former is possible. And really, most of the innovations out there are ways to either steal intellectual property from creators or figure out ways to siphon money out of people's pocketbooks. (I could also argue that many "one and done" NBA players don't know squat about the finer points of the game and have arrived at their position through mere physical talent just as many college dropout "innovators" who have no clue--or care--about how their actions affect the world have become so because of family wealth, often combined with a high degree of hucksterism and sociopathy.)

Another big flaw here is that you also confuse data with knowledge. Yes, data can be moved quickly. But who produces the data? Why is the data created? You can take all the remote sensing and GIS data in the world but only with human expertise spending hours looking at images and comparing what they see with earlier versions and applying their real-world experience and knowledge can you identify where Russians have made mass graves for Ukrainian civilians. Yes, we can take all the information that currently exists on every type of cancer and move it around the world in seconds. However, that doesn't get us any closer to a cure than where we are right now. To push the field forward, you need a bunch of smart people working in a research facility sharing ideas with a bunch of other smart people working in research facilities, which is the kind of thing that universities do best. They do it best in part because their motivating factor is knowledge, not ideology or profit.

You then go off on tangents that convey a not-so-subtle love of authoritarianism where you get to move fast and ignore the special interest groups you disagree with. That's not going to work long-term. Never does, especially in a large and complex country with such a long history of democracy. That kind of approach can do a hell of a lot of damage though, which I guess you are happy to see going on right now.

If you are just a troll, congrats, you got a response so I guess that makes you a "winner."

 

America is so cooked @deb4rockets

 

This guy's brain is completely cooked - has no idea what he is doing - who is the President? Stephen Miller? Elon?

REPORTER: When could the administration resume interviews for foreign students visa?

TRUMP: On what?

REPORTER: Foreign student visas

TRUMP: For the French?

REPORTER: All the foreign students

TRUMP: What are you referring-- foreign visas for what?

 

Brain drain in real time

 

We tend to look at it from a purely academic perspective, but when you add the economic (money follows brains) and the national security concerns, it becomes much. much worse.

Four months in and already it is not fixable in a full presidential term or probably three or four or more. We have ceded the high ground and screwed ourselves for decades.