October 15, 2019 – Michigan Ross Dean Scott De Rue joined 62 other business school deans and US CEOs in authoring a letter to administration and congressional leadership today about the effects of restrictive immigration on business school enrollment and the future of the US economy. The message appears as an open letter in the Wall Street Journal DC edition today.

Maintaining that Reagan’s “shining city upon a hill” description for the US welcomes immigrants, the signatories asked that leaders work to change a “dangerous negative trend” that turns away “hundreds of thousands of highly-skilled immigrants for no other reason than that they failed to win the H-1B lottery.” The letter suggested that lower-than-normal foreign student numbers in America’s universities are adversely affecting America’s crisis in filling STEM jobs.

In addition to this open letter, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) will be releasing an evidence-based white paper today on the same topic. 

Read a full copy of the open letter here.