In STEM graduate programs across America, international students make up the majority of enrollees. This has fueled the belief that American students are losing spots in these programs to non-Americans. But a look at the numbers tells a much different story.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Paola Sapienza is the J-P Conte Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where she co-directs the JP Conte Initiative on Immigration and she is a founding member of the Hoover Program on the Foundations for Economic Prosperity. Her research interests span from corporate governance to financial development, from political economy to the economic effects of culture and the economics of immigration.
Amy Nice is a former Assistant Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she led initiatives on STEM talent policy. Amy practiced law at Dickstein Shapiro in Washington, D.C., for over twenty years, managing the immigration practice from 1997. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Tulane University and earned her law degree from George Washington University.
