Most educational institutions prefer to remain quiet on contentious issues, such as immigration reform, as they do not want to affect their funding sources. <\/p>\n
Even a not so observant person would realize that immigration reform is taking a backseat to other political issues of the day. The shutdown was one of those issues. It will take some time before the nation recovers from that fiasco —- an unbelievably stupid move based on two political parties with seemingly nothing better to do than fight over health reform, which is separately funded.<\/p>\n
That being said, college presidents watching the daily debacle unfold have chosen to speak up and raise their concerns about the lack of action on immigration reform. In a nutshell, immigrant reform also affects the education of the current generation of young entrepreneurs, scientists, computer professionals and chief executive officers. As the situation stands, colleges and universities are not able to utilize (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most educational institutions prefer to remain quiet on contentious issues, such as immigration reform, as they do not want to affect their funding sources. Even a not so observant person would realize that immigration reform is taking a backseat to…<\/span><\/p>\n