The Global Drive for Talent - Clip 7: Transcript
Is American Education Still Respected?
PAUL TAGLIABUE
Around the world there is still an amazing respect for American institutions, maybe not necessarily for some of our policies, maybe not necessarily for some of our government, but for American institutions. And we shouldn't sell ourselves short.
I sat in Delhi - and you know this because you helped me set the meeting up - with the leaders of the computer science lab of a major multinational in the IT sector, six Indian PhD's. All six of them were educated in the U.S., five of them in state universities.
And their message to me was - because they knew I was there wearing a SUNY hat - make sure that SUNY and the other state universities stay open to the next generation of our young people, because I went to Stonybrook, and he went to Buffalo, and he went to the University of Georgia, and he went to the University of Cincinnati. Make sure that we're not just limited to the private institutions and make sure that as we compete increasingly your state universities don't become xenophobic.
So there's a wellspring of respect, but we have to be careful how we wear our hat.