European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                They come to study but Many stay by David Smyth associated press rom their Cliff top Campus in Hoboken n.j., the 593 foreign students at Stevens Institute of technology have a grandstand View of the new York City Skyline and the Battery of skyscrapers around Wall Street. To some it s like a vision of the promised land and Many Are tempted to stay in the United states to Start careers. Currently 356,200 students from other countries attend More than 2,000 colleges and universities across America and As Many As one fifth of them do stay. Our Best estimate is that in recent years Only 80 to 85 percent of foreign students in the United states returned Home says Jack Reichard vice president of the Washington based National association for foreign student affairs. Moreover 50-60 percent of foreign students studying science and engineering a vital area for their countries As Well As the United states decide to stay according to a study by the National science foundation. About 40 percent of non american . Recipients in science and engineering seek jobs in the United states and about 40 percent of american University science and engineering faculty members under the age of 35 Are now foreign nationals according to the National Academy of sciences. Whether these Young intellectuals of the world should stay on to make their careers in America or return Home is a question in growing Contention. Their individual decisions to stay or to go Home could have a considerable Impact on world affairs. Leon Febres Cordero who earned a Bachelor of engineering degree at Stevens in 1953, completed a four year term As president of Ecuador last August. Miklos Nemeth an economist with postgraduate training at Harvard University was named prime minister of Hungary in november. One fifth of the 350,000 foreign students attending colleges in the United states stay after they graduate. Binazir Bhutto who has a . From Radcliffe College became prime minister of Pakistan elected in december As the first woman Ever to head a moslem government. In dozens of other nations of every political persuasion graduates of american universities have occupied positions of influence and Power in politics Industry and other Fields. Foreign students who decided to stay on in the United states have been no less successful. Shanghai born an Wang who was sent to study physics at Harvard by president Chiang Kai Shek of Taiwan stayed on in the United states to found Wang laboratories a major scientific company and make a Fortune estimated by Forbes Magazine at $365 million. The average foreign University student attends courses for about 3.5 years Richard said in an interview. So it May be estimated with about 350,000 foreign students in the country that approximately 100,000 new University level students enter the United states each year. According to  immigration figures about 20,000 of these foreign youths among the world s Best and brightest Trade in their student visas for immigration cards. The foreign students come from 186 countries and territories. Two thirds of them Are from developing nations where in Many cases a depressing Paradox awaits them on their return Home there is a desperate need for their knowledge but jobs Are scarce and poorly paid even at the advanced level they have achieved. So the temptation to remain in the United states is Strong. Making it even stronger is the encouragement of some american business and academic leaders acutely aware of a shortage of american born science students in  to the Council on competitiveness the United states could face a shortfall of 500,000 american born scientists and engineers by the year 2010 due to retirements and the declining number of american students choosing careers in these Fields. The Council composed of 151 chief executives of Industry labor and higher education also noted in a report last july that 1,300 to 1,800 engineering positions Are vacant even now at american universities. How can we replenish these faculty positions asks Stevens president Harold j. Raveche. It takes 10,000 High school students expressing an interest in a science or engineering major to assure us of 20  we should talk about our education deficit rather than about our budget deficit says Kenneth Wilson 1982 Winner of the Nobel physics prize. We need math and science teachers he said during a forum on . Competitiveness at Stevens. America s academic Gap is being filled by an increasing number of professors from other countries particularly India Japan and other asian nations. Sixty percent of All foreign students in the United states Are in engineering mathematics computer sciences physical and life sciences or management related Fields according to the new York based Institute of International education which administers International scholarship programs and places thousands of foreign students in . Schools. An important policy need is to encourage developing country nationals to return Home. Their . Education should represent a brain gain not a Drain says Institute chairman Charles h. Percy a former Illinois senator. Dissenting Peter Sprague chairman of the Board of National semiconductor corp., notes that the american University system is unmatched in the world and the United states is a Mecca for foreign students. About half our science and engineering graduate students Are foreigners. We should give them Green cards admitting them As immigrants said Sprague at the Stevens forum. He said he spoke for the High technology industries of California s Silicon Valley. While . Universities May set a High Standard. A american primary and secondary education is often inadequate said pulitzer prize winning author David Halberstam at the Stevens forum. Technical universities like Stevens Are at the cutting Edge of economic development he said but the japanese Are killing us in ninth Grade  Page 14 the stars and stripes the United states is a Mecca for foreign students Here he University of California at Berkeley. Not monday february 6, 1989 thiere Are 1.4 million graduate students in the . About half Are married to working or student spouses. Doctoral thesis can be murder on a marriage by Andree Brooks new York times demanding program of graduate or doctoral studies can be hazardous to a marriage especially when Only one spouse is going through the ordeal recent studies in the United states indicate. Couples facing the most severe difficulties include those who were wed just before full time enrolment in graduate school since they usually know no other kind of married life. Problems also arise when course or dissertation work drags of far longer than either partner had expected and the supporting spouse becomes resentful. When both Are graduate students at the same time the problems Are less acute although certain dangers and stresses still exist. The recent american findings confirm student folklore which has Long held that the triumphant Day of graduation is often accompanied by a request from the graduating spouse for a divorce. Now however a better understanding of Why this happens is beginning to emerge. Because of the seriousness of these findings and because the number of graduate students is increasing therapists Are recommending that schools offer special orientation and counselling courses for these couples. There Are now 1.4 million graduate students in the United states up from 1 million in 1970, according to the Federal department of education and about half of them Are married. The therapists say that marital conflict and dissolution is less Likely when couples understand that Many of their difficulties Stem from the nature of the circumstances in which they find themselves rather than from a fundamental mismatch of personalities and goals. The findings emerge from studies in recent years As Well As observations of therapists who Are seeing More of these troubled couples in private practice. The most recent report by Michele Scheinkman a family therapist who has just completed seven years As a marriage Counselor at the student mental health Center of the University of Chicago was published in the september Issue of family process a journal for mental health professionals. In order to succeed in graduate school Scheinkman wrote the student must be passionate about his or her Field of study and a loss of perspective is required in order to accommodate the consuming preoccupation with one s  the studies tend to be emotionally draining leaving the spouse who is not a student feeling shortchanged said Scheinkman who reported on 50 couples whose graduate studies spanned a Broad Range of academic disciplines. Moreover the couple s schedules Are often at Odds. While the working partner sees the evenings and weekends As a time to unwind and relax she wrote the student sees these uninterrupted blocks of time As opportunities to go to the Library and have a spell of concentrated  meanwhile the interests and schedules of fellow students begin to look increasingly congenial and even seductive. As a result affairs Are common in graduate student marriages Scheinkman said. The non student spouse also becomes increasingly resentful of carrying most of the financial and household Burden. In past decades Scheinkman noted a non student wife might have been proud to hold any sort of Job just to cover the Bills. Now Sheinkman said the non student is far less willing to put her own goals on hold to play a supportive role for a prolonged period. The reason the graduating student is often the one to move for the divorce is because winning that degree can make the student arrogant said David Sternberg a professor of sociology at John Jay College of criminal Justice in new York City who also has a private practice counselling doctoral students on How to Complete a dissertation. That person has already started to move in other circles with friends who Are in similar Fields he said and the spouse no longer fits the new  finally having that degree also loosens the economic dependency that might have been holding the marriage together. In addition with the arduous work of a thesis or dissertation completed you feel you have just got rid of a Millstone around your neck Sternberg said adding you re ready to go out and sow wild Oats for a while not take Over  a variety of strategies can help these couples the experts said. In dealing with students Clarence Hibbs a professor of social science at Pepperdine University in Malibu calif., emphasizes that the inherent stresses created by graduate studies can set up even the Best intentioned couples for conflict. I make a big Deal of those external forces he said. The attempt is to Stop trying to assign blame but instead work on  Hibbs teaches a regular course for Law students and their spouses on the stresses of student marriages. Scheinkman tries to let each partner see How much damage May have been created because the personal needs of the supporting spouse have been disregarded for too Long and How critical it is to modify that imbalance. She said that she was Able to encourage one student spouse to take a Job each summer and also agree to do some part time teaching to Lessen the financial Load being carried by the other partner. Sternberg favors involving the supporting spouse in some of the research when feasible. The aim is to Lessen the chasm developing Between the two and to rekindle Pride in one another s abilities he said. The stars and stripes Page 15