Graduate Students in US: Taxes/H1B/Open Access
Legislative Action Days
FYI: Graduate Students in US
Информация для аспирантов в Америке
На этой неделе лидеры Всеамериканской ассоциации аспирантов (NAGPS) отстаивают интересы аспирантов и молодых профессионалов в Конгрессе США. Представители NAGPS обсуждают с конгрессменами вопросы касающиеся прекращения обложения стипендий налогами, снятия ограничений на рабочие визы (H1B) для аспирантов, а так же вопросы касающиеся свободного доступа к публикациям об исследованиях финансируемых через федеральный бюджет.
Более подробно на английском:
NAGPS Legislative Action Days (LAD)
02/24/2010 - 02/26/2010
Legislative Action is one of the three core missions of NAGPS (National Association of Graduate-Professional Students), to ensure that the concerns of graduate students nationwide are heard by their leaders. NAGPS seeks to improve the lives of graduate students throughout the United States by oganizing direct lobbying through its semiannual Legislative Action Days.
The Legislative Action Days are scheduled for February 24th to 26th. The majority of the lobbying activities will take place during 9:00 to 16:00 on the 25th and 26th with some training sessions by professional DC lobbyists during the late afternoon on the 24th.Overview of Current Issues
FYI: Graduate Students in US
Информация для аспирантов в Америке
На этой неделе лидеры Всеамериканской ассоциации аспирантов (NAGPS) отстаивают интересы аспирантов и молодых профессионалов в Конгрессе США. Представители NAGPS обсуждают с конгрессменами вопросы касающиеся прекращения обложения стипендий налогами, снятия ограничений на рабочие визы (H1B) для аспирантов, а так же вопросы касающиеся свободного доступа к публикациям об исследованиях финансируемых через федеральный бюджет.
Более подробно на английском:
NAGPS Legislative Action Days (LAD)
02/24/2010 - 02/26/2010
Legislative Action is one of the three core missions of NAGPS (National Association of Graduate-Professional Students), to ensure that the concerns of graduate students nationwide are heard by their leaders. NAGPS seeks to improve the lives of graduate students throughout the United States by oganizing direct lobbying through its semiannual Legislative Action Days.
The Legislative Action Days are scheduled for February 24th to 26th. The majority of the lobbying activities will take place during 9:00 to 16:00 on the 25th and 26th with some training sessions by professional DC lobbyists during the late afternoon on the 24th.Overview of Current Issues
- Tax exemption for graduate student stipends
- Since 1986, graduate student stipends have been subject to taxation. By exempting student stipends, the government would be financially encouraging more students to pursue advanced degrees and would be investing in the educational future of the United States.
- Raising or eliminating the cap on H-1B visas given to holders of advanced degrees
- The supply of high-level technical positions in the United States is greater than the number of people who can fill them; these are the positions that significantly drive economic growth. Currently, the federal government caps the number of holders of advanced degrees who are allowed to stay and work in the U.S., resulting in a "learn and leave" phenomenon in which many of the country's brightest foreign-grown minds are educated in our universities and forced out of the country after graduation.
- Open access to federally-funded published research (the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009, FRPAA)
- Currently, individuals and libraries pay large amounts of money to publishing companies with high profit margins in order to access scholarly research. The purpose of such research, however, is to be as widely and freely accessible as possible; its purpose is not to fund the publishing industry. FRPAA would ensure that much of the research done with federal taxpayer money would be freely accessible to the public, thus allowing greater access to knowledge and more governmental transparency.