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Yewhile the brain drain phenomenon is widespread, it’s far from an absolute rule. For reasons ranging from national loyalty to a distaste for American culture, Harvard students like Prichard are eager to leave. Especially for students from Westernized countries, a Harvard diploma can offer similar advantages at home as in America. According to Courtney S. Kirshner ’79, president of the Harvard Club of Ireland, the College’s 300 alumni living in Ireland and Northern Ireland “are in the highest tiers of their professions. A Harvard diploma gives immediate recognition...
...most international students recognize that there is only so much Harvard can do to address the worst consequences of the brain drain phenomenon. They say the onus should be on foreign governments to take advantage of their students in America and make a return more economically palatable, rather than depending on 22-year-olds to sacrifice personal career opportunities for intangible national benefits they may never be able to take advantage...
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...international students really have a responsibility to their native countries? According to Assistant Professor of Sociology Jason A. Kaufman ’93, a comparative cultural sociologist, even the worst traditional cases of brain drain may not be so bad for less developed countries. By increasing the economic, cultural, and social linkages between first-world and third-world nations, he says, ex-pats in America can still be doing a service to their countries. “In many cases, those students who stay here end up sending business to their home countries, which is beneficial to them...
...leaders of development efforts that could begin to bridge international inequalities. Whether they plan to stay in America or head home, Harvard’s international students largely agree that better incentives and more favorable job markets in their home countries are needed to fight the Cambridge brain drain. The irony is that many of them are the people most capable of instituting those incentives, so that the next generation of international Harvard students don’t have to make such difficult choices...