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No Link - Domestic Workers SolveThe US is drawing college students into the aerospace industry Leon, Senior Project Leader in the Economic and Market Analysis Center and Maloney, Director of the Economic and Market Analysis Center 7 (Michael A. and Patricia A, The State of the National Security Space Workforce, Aerospace Vol 8, # 1, spring, http://www.aero.org/publications/crosslink/spring2007/01.html, accessed 7/6/11, CW) The aerospace industry as a whole is making a concerted effort to attract and retain new graduates. This is evident in the targeting of schools, through the establishment of programs that support research, pregraduation internships, and mentoring activities once a new hire is on the job. However, retention is a major problem, as the attrition rate in the 1–6 year range is approximately 2 times greater in the aerospace industry than in the overall new graduate population. Industry surveys reveal that approximately half of the current workforce perceives a worsening outlook in the aerospace industry because of the continuing retirement of scientists and engineers, and also believes that the hiring outlook is getting worse or steadily declining. Certainly, many factors contribute to this view—the general economic outlook, questions by young graduates about ethics in the defense industry, and the projected forecast of the space budget as a percentage of the entire defense budget, and how that could affect the aerospace job market. The U.S. government's response to these problems has been varied. The National Defense Education Act, originally instituted in 1958 and reinstituted in 2006, awards scholarships and grants to science and engineering students, with a requisite payback period in government service. This reconstituted program was originally funded at $10 million the first year, with an increase to $20 million the second year. It is hoped that this level of increase will continue until $100 million is reached. This does appear to be a strong force to begin addressing the challenge of increasing the number of students with the appropriate degrees into the industry. US college international student rates are at an all time high Fischer Senior reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education 9 (Karin, the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Number of Foreign Students in U.S. Hit a New High Last Year”, 11/16/9, http://chronicle.com/article/Number-of-Foreign-Students-/49142/, accessed 7/6/11, CW) The number of foreign students attending American colleges hit an all-time high in 2008, capping three consecutive years of vigorous growth, according to new data from the Institute of International Education. Some 671,616 international students attended U.S. institutions in 2008-9, an increase of almost 8 percent from a year earlier. First-time-student enrollments grew even more robustly, by nearly 16 percent. But the rosy data highlighted in the annual "Open Doors" report may obscure some potentially worrisome trends. Though graduate programs typically rely more on international students, enrollment grew far more strongly at the undergraduate level, where the number of students jumped 11 percent, than at the graduate level, where enrollments climbed a little more than 2 percent. What's more, the increase in students pursuing undergraduate studies was largely dependent on enrollment from China, which shot up by 60 percent. Link Turn – Plan Increases WorkforceFunding space exploration projects critical to retaining aerospace domestic workforce Aerospace Industries Association 11 (“NASA: A Sound Investment for our Nation’s Future”, http://www.aia-aerospace.org/assets/NASA%20FY12%20Funding%20White%20Paper%20FINAL.pdf) access 7/9/11 Stable Funding is Critical to Workforce and System Development. It is critical that NASA receive the full top-line funding as requested by the President that follows the goals presented in the NASA Authorization Act of 2010. Fluctuating budgets and delayed programs take their toll on schedule, production and maintaining a skilled workforce. Funding and program instability results in the permanent loss of human capital while reducing options for retaining this specially trained and skilled workforce. Investment in space industry key to encouraging US students to enter aerospace programs Aerospace Industries Association 8 (“Launching into Aerospace: Industry’s Response to the Workforce Challenge”,p.2, http://www.aia-aerospace.org/assets/workforce_report_1_sept08.pdf) access 7/8/11 Today, the United States is not meeting the need, and there is strong reason to conclude that, without aggressive action from within the industry, the situation will worsen, placing the future of aerospace technology at risk.
(Soumitra and Irene, 2009 World Economic Forum “The Global Information Technology Report 2008–2009 Mobility in a Networked World” BLG) What makes talent move across borders: A simple model The 20th century has seen a progressive re-balancing between the “push factors” of migration (diseases, poverty, and conflicts) and the “pull factors” of labor movements (better wages and better opportunities to acquire new skills or develop a business). Over the last few decades, however, international labor mobility has been greatly facilitated and encouraged by factors such as the following: • Significant differences in earning potentials for similar skill sets. Classic examples are those of Indian software developers (Indian salaries being a fraction of those paid in the United States or Western Europe).This has also applied to profes- sionals trained in Eastern Europe (whose wages are far below those of their western counterparts). • Ecosystem attractiveness. One of the major non-monetary reasons for talents to move outside their country of origin is the presence of an ecosys- tem that provides an enabling environment for professional growth and self-development. For example, R&D professionals may wish to go abroad in search of better laboratories, a more stimulating research environment, more peer-to-peer interaction, higher funding, or better relationships between universities and business. • Interdependence among capital, competence, and talent flows. Available evidence shows a strong correlation between growth opportunities on one hand and the ability to attract both capital and talent on the other. • Increasingly important roles of governments. When it comes to attracting or retaining talents, governments have a key role to play in designing and implementing proper fiscal and immigration policies; more and more, they tend to do this in accordance with the relative shortage (or relatively high costs) of the skills required by the enterprises of their respective countries. For example, in the United States, a special class of visas (H1) is being granted to IT professionals: a large proportion of the beneficiaries of such visas come from India’s IT industry. Directory: 2011 2011 -> Enterprise Network Management iPost: Implementing Continuous Risk Monitoring at the Department of State 2011 -> Voices of the Old Sea Norman Lewis 2011 -> Malevil Robert Merle 2011 -> The Elephant Keeper’s Children Peter Hoeg 2011 -> January 1: Ecstasy zZz January 2: King of Anything Sara Bareillis 2011 -> Tracks, Mixes, Masters, and More!: Analyzing Preservation Priorities for Multitrack Recordings 2011 -> Department of Electrical Engineering 2011 Annual Report 2011 -> Jv packet •Mars Colonization Affirmative •Mars Colonization Negative 2011 -> Asian Pacific Mathematical Olympiad(apmo) 2011 -> Registration Form (Rev. 8-86) omb no. 1024-0018 Download 425.95 Kb. Share with your friends:
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