This is not about Harvard. It is about higher education.’
Is the 21st-century United States sliding toward its own version of post-war European brain drain?
Harvard President Alan Garber said that there are uncomfortable parallels between America today and the era of European history marked by the flight of scientists abroad, particularly to the U.S., a period that damaged the continent as a global scientific power.
Garber’s warning came Monday during a discussion with Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker. The event, “Universities, Democracy, and the American Future,” was held at 92NY in New York and focused on what the turmoil for U.S. universities in recent months means for the nation’s future.
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