UCLA Anderson School of Management's Retroactive STEM Certification
The Issue
CALL FOR ACTION: We seek your support in thinking fearlessly, driving change, and sharing success by appealing to retroactively apply the STEM certification to UCLA Anderson's class of 2019.
CONTEXT: Currently, international students can work in the US without requiring a work visa for one year on OPT. The class of 2019 is close to exhausting their one year in a few months. In order to continue to legally work in the US, we, international students of UCLA Anderson School of Management class of 2019, had to go through a lottery process (H-1B lottery), earlier this year the odds of success were 40%. More than 60% of us did not receive the lottery and will have to move out of the US in a few months. In the current economic crisis, when companies are looking at cost-cutting measures and have announced a hiring freeze, we are even at the risk of losing our jobs. With the COVID-19 pandemic engulfing the world, as you can imagine, moving to our home country without a job and hundreds of thousands in debt would be very stressful for us and our families.
A retroactive STEM designation would allow us to keep our jobs and extend our U.S. work authorization by 24 months. This will be a big win for the entire Anderson community. Several top US business schools have already classified their MBA programs as STEM as reported by Poets & Quants, several of them in retrospect for Class of 2019. This has provided relief to graduates who are affected by the current situation. These include, among others:
Chicago Booth
Stanford GSB
MIT Sloan
Dartmouth Tuck
Columbia Business School
Berkeley Haas
Duke Fuqua
NYU Stern
It was done as recently as last week by Washington University’s Olin School of Business for its Class of 2019. Students from schools like Kellogg and Tepper are running similar campaigns on Change.org to spread awareness.
We seek your support in appealing to UCLA Anderson School of Management and the broader University of California, Los Angeles authorities to heed this petition and to take the steps required to cross this hurdle so that every individual in our community can achieve their full potential.
Victory
The Issue
CALL FOR ACTION: We seek your support in thinking fearlessly, driving change, and sharing success by appealing to retroactively apply the STEM certification to UCLA Anderson's class of 2019.
CONTEXT: Currently, international students can work in the US without requiring a work visa for one year on OPT. The class of 2019 is close to exhausting their one year in a few months. In order to continue to legally work in the US, we, international students of UCLA Anderson School of Management class of 2019, had to go through a lottery process (H-1B lottery), earlier this year the odds of success were 40%. More than 60% of us did not receive the lottery and will have to move out of the US in a few months. In the current economic crisis, when companies are looking at cost-cutting measures and have announced a hiring freeze, we are even at the risk of losing our jobs. With the COVID-19 pandemic engulfing the world, as you can imagine, moving to our home country without a job and hundreds of thousands in debt would be very stressful for us and our families.
A retroactive STEM designation would allow us to keep our jobs and extend our U.S. work authorization by 24 months. This will be a big win for the entire Anderson community. Several top US business schools have already classified their MBA programs as STEM as reported by Poets & Quants, several of them in retrospect for Class of 2019. This has provided relief to graduates who are affected by the current situation. These include, among others:
Chicago Booth
Stanford GSB
MIT Sloan
Dartmouth Tuck
Columbia Business School
Berkeley Haas
Duke Fuqua
NYU Stern
It was done as recently as last week by Washington University’s Olin School of Business for its Class of 2019. Students from schools like Kellogg and Tepper are running similar campaigns on Change.org to spread awareness.
We seek your support in appealing to UCLA Anderson School of Management and the broader University of California, Los Angeles authorities to heed this petition and to take the steps required to cross this hurdle so that every individual in our community can achieve their full potential.
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Petition created on May 10, 2020