But over the long run I think the important thing is whether the institutions of higher education can maintain America's lead in research and technology, when we've made it more difficult for foreign students to come here, when we don't have as many of our kids moving into the breaking fields of science and technology.
If we could close the gender gap and if African-American and Latino kids went into science and technology and engineering fields, in the same rates as, let's say, Asian and Middle Eastern males do, and European males, then we would close our gender gap and our ethnic gap, and we would be developing a work force with the skills we need.
I also think colleges need to have more funding in basic funding and research and less politics, from stem cell research and human genome research to global warming research and research in materials science.
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