Shortage of Engineers
The National Science Board issued a report in 2004 that states there is a decline of brainpower in the United States due to the shortage of scientist and engineers. They further state that this trend "threatens the economic welfare and security of our country" (American Scientist, 2005). While the shortage of engineers and scientist decrease, the U.S. Bureau of Labor forecasted in 2001 that science and engineering jobs would grow three times faster than any other occupation and could increase as much as 47 percent in ten years.
Until 2004, the number of engineers graduating remained steady and thus the demand for these jobs was fulfilled. However, "The National Foundation for American Policy reported in July of 2004 that more than half of the engineers with PhDs working the in the US and 45 percent of those with computer science doctorates are foreign born" (American Scientist, 2005). In fact, the amount of foreign students increased from 350,000 to 585,000 between 1984 and 2003 (American Scientist, 2005). Beginning in 2004 this trend began turning the other direction and the amount of foreign students enrolling in colleges decreased by 2.4 percent with the decrease in graduate student falling 6 percent (American Scientist, 2005).
In areas such as science and engineering, the declining numbers were even higher as the Council of Graduates reported the number of student applications has decreased with the biggest decline between 2003 and 2004 that was 36 percent of engineering schools. This decline was the result of the "decline of international students enrolling in graduate studies, change visa policies, and the weakened reputation of the United States" (American Scientist, 2005).
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The sad truth is that almost everybody is affected. In the society we live in today, jobs require you to have at least an associate’s degree. Low level paying jobs are even requiring you to have some college experience. College is turning into a “must have” situation for a lot of people. Due to the growth of population and technology, students now have competition around the whole planet. Speaking about global competition, college some European countries is free. It is insane how we call the United States of America “land of opportunity”, but European nations have took initiative to offer free or extremely cheap price for college. This is very unfair to American citizens to pay thousands of dollars for college and European students pay little to nothing. The people who are to blame are the universities and the department of education in
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