I generally would like to see a more patriotic (real patriotism: none of this flags and hoo-rah silliness) approach to student recruitment and scholarships on campuses. I believe American schools can produce excellent students. I think the US has some very high-class aspirations and values, and care should be taken to preserve them and to grow practices such as tenure and free speech which let the best of US values flourish.
Having a heavy mix of people from places with other aspirations and values will dilute this system.
Of course: the language issue is a big deal. I've had fellow-students that couldn't speak or understand a word of verbal English - in graduate school!!! But their written was adequate. I don't believe they should have been accepted - they should have been kindly redirected to their national universities. Most international students don't have this issue, of course! Most are very fluent in English, even if they have an accent.
One very tangible aspect of the situation is that international students often pay cash and are charged out the ying-yang to attend. Perhaps if our fine federal government mandated public universities have equal costs for national and international students, universities wouldn't feel quite so incentivized to attract the (often extremely talented!) international students.
Having a heavy mix of people from places with other aspirations and values will dilute this system.
Of course: the language issue is a big deal. I've had fellow-students that couldn't speak or understand a word of verbal English - in graduate school!!! But their written was adequate. I don't believe they should have been accepted - they should have been kindly redirected to their national universities. Most international students don't have this issue, of course! Most are very fluent in English, even if they have an accent.
One very tangible aspect of the situation is that international students often pay cash and are charged out the ying-yang to attend. Perhaps if our fine federal government mandated public universities have equal costs for national and international students, universities wouldn't feel quite so incentivized to attract the (often extremely talented!) international students.