CAREER TRAINING:
Visa Bill Creates NSF Scholarships
Jeffrey Mervis
A new law that allows U.S. high-tech companies to hire more foreign workers contains a windfall--and a headache--for the National Science Foundation (NSF). The windfall is a $27 million pot of money for college scholarships and school reform efforts, funded through a $500 fee that employers will pay the government for each visa application to bring in a foreign worker. The headache is figuring out how to set up and operate such a program, which would be a first for NSF.