A new article in the Journal for STEM Education Research challenges the longstanding “leaky pipeline” narrative that has shaped U.S. education and workforce policy for decades. The article, “Reconceptualizing College STEM Pathways: Is ‘Leaving STEM’ the Problem?”, was...
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Hal Salzman
Grad Students Study AI’s Role in UNDP Work Processes
Rutgers graduate students presented their findings on “Effectiveness of AI-assisted report assessments: A case study of the United Nations Development Program,” at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting’s poster competition in Phoenix, AZ in mid-February.
The Rise and Fall of the H-1B Visa
In this article, the author argues that the H-1B visa, originally created to bring in highly skilled, elite foreign professionals, has been gradually hijacked by big business to drive down labor costs. The effect of this has been the displacement of U.S. workers and...
Does America Have a Talent Shortage?
Hal Salzman, an expert in workforce development at Rutgers University, said he found Trump’s statements “puzzling” given his administration’s efforts to make temporary visas for both workers and students more exclusive, but said there was “no evidence of a talent shortage” in the U.S.
Trump’s H-1B visa crackdown could cut US jobs instead of creating them
One reason it’s not easy to offshore, Salzman said, is that in order to make operations work, employers often need roughly one-third of their workers in the US. That means it places a practical limit on the share of workers that a company could send elsewhere.
Salzman Presents on Why Legal Immigration Numbers Matter
The debate over high-skill guestworker supply is ongoing, with over 700,000 high-skill workers entering the U.S. annually through various programs, not just the H-1B visa. U.S. colleges, especially master’s programs, play a significant role in this supply chain, often targeting foreign students due to the financial benefits.
Dockworkers’ fight a warning about the future of work
Dockworkers are fighting for the future of work, fearing automation will take their jobs. Even those who stay employed worry that the tech will strip their work of its worth. But there are questions about whether vendors are overselling their automation technology and...
H-1B visa program is wretched. Now is no time to expand it.
H-1B workers have few employment rights, in a system that they’ve described as “indentured servitude,” and some employers engage in rampant wage theft from H-1B workers.
Scientific Research needs a Radical Restructuring
Because senior researchers hire postdocs according to their projects’ need for labor, rather than the number of faculty openings awaiting the trainees, postdocs now vastly outnumber available faculty positions. The result: We have transformed a competition based on skills and talent into a lottery where few can win.
Lynn & Salzman: Techno-nationalism or building a global science and technology commons? (but what about China?)
Lynn and Salzman argue that talent and intellectual property are globally distributed. We need to recognize this new reality, not only for the benefits this would confer on humankind, but also to contend with China’s growing STI capabilities and, eventually perhaps, integrating China into a system of global collaboration.