"Too Asian" and hiring "International Faculty"

"Too Asian" by M. Ruse

http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/too-asian/30168

writes about his "concern" for too many Asian students at US and mainly Canadian Universities.

Few passages:

When they returned, one remark that went by without notice was that there seemed to be an awful lot of Asian students on both campuses. So, big deal. However, this is something which has rather blown up in Canada just recently. An article in the weekly magazine Maclean’s—the closest equivalent to Time magazine in that country—with the apparently provocative title that I used above, “Too Asian?” (Now changed on the Net to “The Enrollment Controversy”), has got a number of people very upset indeed, and questions have been asked in the nation’s parliament.

The article points out that some universities in Canada have a justified reputation for being heavy on Asian students—UBC, the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo (in Southern Ontario and with a very well-deserved reputation in mathematics especially, as well as engineering). That this is out of whack with the general makeup of the population. UBC has over 40 percent Asian undergrads compared to a general ratio in Vancouver of just over 20 percent.

Not just Hitler but all of those distinguished white professors at Harvard who made very sure that the place was not overrun by the children of immigrants living in the Lower East Side of N.Y.C.

Hurdles to Hiring International Faculty

By David Evans

http://chronicle.com/blogs/onhiring/hurdles-to-hiring-international-faculty/27823

Few passages:

Many of our strongest applicants have not been American citizens. We have recently hired a noncitizen, and our current pools suggest the real possibility that we will do so again.

I understand fully that there are good reasons for preferring to hire American citizens in most cases. Moreover, the United States has made a series of public-policy decisions that drive us in that direction whether we want to go that way or not. While there are also very strong reasons to hire international faculty, I do not dispute the priority on hiring citizens.