Nearly 1 in 3 international undergraduate students comes to the U.S. to study business, management or marketing, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution. The Chronicle provides a nice overview of the findings here.
But bright international students, for the most part, don’t stay in the U.S. after earning their degrees. In an effort to change that, the White House is considering issuing more green cards to skilled, high-tech workers.
Cal State schools are having an identity crisis trying to find nicknames and acronyms to set themselves apart. This Los Angeles Times article covers the hows and whys (and what SimpsonScarborough's Jason Simon has to say about it).
Social science has an existential problem. Telephone surveys are becoming less accurate, because people don’t answer the telephone anymore, as explained in this New York Times article, A New Reason to Question the Official Unemployment Rate.