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From Capitol to CampusA bill making its way through Congress would exempt faculty and graduate students who agree to work in institutions of higher education from the annual immigration cap for H-1B visa holders. This is the "guest" worker program. NEA opposes legislative proposals calling for an unlimited supply of foreign skilled workers in higher education institutions, because Congress has not yet considered the impact on current faculty and students, or whether there is a critical national need for limitless foreign workers on our nation's campuses. NEA lobbyists are asking higher ed faculty and staff to contact their Members of Congress through NEA's legislative action center at www.nea.org/lac/. From this site, NEA members can urge Congresss to hold committee hearings on this important issue that will, among other things, look at the impact on higher education full-time tenure positions. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has strongly condemned the movement among states to replace affirmative action with plans that guarantee public-college admission to students who rank in the top tiers of their high-school class. The commission characterized the class-rank plans as regressive because they exploit segregated schools. The plans are "no substitute for strong race-conscious affirmative action in higher education," the commission wrote in a recent report. "Race-conscious affirmative action has not brought nearly enough black and Latino students into undergraduate, graduate, or professional higher-education programs; the percentage plans will do no better and probably worse," the report notes. To subscribe to the NEA E-mail Legislative Alert, send to lyris@list.nea.org this message: Subscribe hecongress. Or read the Alert on this web site. Share your legislative news with us. |
