Foreign Some of the American decline, experts agree, is due "International students say it’s not worth queuing In addition to the increasing competition from Anglophone article from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The US government is doing its best to drive the Dowbrigade back into international exile. In addition to dismaying us with Orwellian distortions of reality and scaring the shit out of us with dire predictions of terroristic disaster, they are … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/kepout.jpg\")
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\n US government is doing its best to drive the Dowbrigade back into international
\n exile. In addition
\n to dismaying us with Orwellian distortions of reality and scaring the
\n shit out of us with dire predictions of terroristic disaster, they are
\n scaring away our professional bread and butter – the teeming masses of
\n foreign students yearning to be educated…<\/em><\/p>\n\n
\n students contribute $13 billion to the American economy annually. But
\n this year
\n brought clear
\n signs that the United States’ overwhelming dominance of international
\n higher education may be ending. <\/p>\n
\n to post-Sept. 11 delays in processing student visas, which have discouraged
\n thousands of students, not only from the Middle East but also from dozens
\n of other nations, from enrolling in the United States. American educators
\n and even some foreign ones say the visa difficulties are helping foreign
\n schools increase their share of the market.<\/p>\n
\n up for two days outside the U.S. consulate in whatever country they
\n are in to get a visa when they can
\n go to the U.K. so much more easily. Now Australia, the U.K., Ireland, New
\n Zealand and Canada are competing for that dollar, and our lives have been
\n made easier because of the difficulties that students are having getting
\n into the
\n U.S."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n nations, we are up against an increasingly diverse and functional virtual
\n offerings and, more recently,the creation of tiny intensive English towns
\n built as English-only
\n zones<\/a> for teaching the language to young Koreans
\n and
\n Japanese
\n without exposing them to the physical danger and corroding cultural influences
\n of the US. We may have to establish one of these private idiomatic fiefdoms
\n ourselves, perhaps in Thailand or some scenic South Seas island…<\/em><\/p>\n