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From page 13... ... graduate students, the percentage rose from 20 percent in 1982 to 35 percent in 2002, and it is over 50 percent in some fields of engineering.3 Recent estimates indicate that over half the postdoctoral scholars in the United States are on temporary visas, and almost half those scholars had obtained their doctorates outside the United States.4 Thus, about one-fourth of US postdoctoral scholars have been trained in overseas universities. Talented international graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are drawn to the United States because of the high quality of our research universities, the availability of stipends and research funding, the opportunities for employment after schooling, and an "open-door" immigration policy that allows foreigners to obtain nonimmigrant visas for study and in many cases to convert their student status to longer-term residence once their studies are completed. Read the entire page →
From page 14... ... The heightening of security consciousness, in turn, created a perception that the United States was not "a welcoming place" and raised a broad set of security issues that have long been debated in this country. Those issues were especially troublesome during the Cold War, when scrutiny of scientists and engineers doing research in "sensitive" fields, such as nuclear physics, prompted passionate debates about the proper balance between national security and the open communication on which scientific research depends.6 The effects of visa and immigration policies on the global movement and work of scientists are the subject of Chapter 2. Read the entire page →
From page 15... ... DEFINITION OF TERMS Several terms used throughout this report -- foreign-born, temporary resident, foreign, and international students and postdoctoral scholars-refer to overlapping populations but are not entirely interchangeable. Foreign-born: Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars born outside the United States. Read the entire page →
From page 16... ... International: Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who study in more than one country. This term is used throughout the report to indicate graduate students or postdoctoral scholars who have obtained at least high-school degrees or their equivalent outside the United States and have come to the United States to obtain graduate education or postdoctoral training. Read the entire page →

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... Two years later, 34,232 international students were studying in the United States (1.4 percent of the total higher-education enrollment)

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... graduate students, the percentage rose from 20 percent in 1982 to 35 percent in 2002, and it is over 50 percent in some fields of engineering.3 Recent estimates indicate that over half the postdoctoral scholars in the United States are on temporary visas, and almost half those scholars had obtained their doctorates outside the United States.4 Thus, about one-fourth of US postdoctoral scholars have been trained in overseas universities. Talented international graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are drawn to the United States because of the high quality of our research universities, the availability of stipends and research funding, the opportunities for employment after schooling, and an "open-door" immigration policy that allows foreigners to obtain nonimmigrant visas for study and in many cases to convert their student status to longer-term residence once their studies are completed.

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From page 14...

... The heightening of security consciousness, in turn, created a perception that the United States was not "a welcoming place" and raised a broad set of security issues that have long been debated in this country. Those issues were especially troublesome during the Cold War, when scrutiny of scientists and engineers doing research in "sensitive" fields, such as nuclear physics, prompted passionate debates about the proper balance between national security and the open communication on which scientific research depends.6 The effects of visa and immigration policies on the global movement and work of scientists are the subject of Chapter 2.

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From page 15...

... DEFINITION OF TERMS Several terms used throughout this report -- foreign-born, temporary resident, foreign, and international students and postdoctoral scholars-refer to overlapping populations but are not entirely interchangeable. Foreign-born: Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars born outside the United States.

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... International: Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who study in more than one country. This term is used throughout the report to indicate graduate students or postdoctoral scholars who have obtained at least high-school degrees or their equivalent outside the United States and have come to the United States to obtain graduate education or postdoctoral training.

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Introduction Pages 12-16

Introduction
Pages 12-16