Purdue U. Northwest Claims it Can’t Find Any Americans to Teach Marketing Classes for $127,000
“Does anyone seriously believe no American in the Chicago area can teach marketing for $127,500 a year”
This seems difficult to believe. Are they looking outside of the academic world?
The College Fix reports:
Purdue campus says it cannot find any Americans to teach marketing classes for $127,000
A Purdue University campus that borders the city of Chicago is reportedly struggling to find qualified Americans to teach marketing classes for $127,000 per year. The questionable use of H1-B visas by a public university fits into a broader problem of the abuse of the program.
Purdue University Northwest, located in the Indiana suburb of Hammond, posted an H1-B job listing for an “assistant professor of marketing.”
The posting drew criticism from Andrew Ireland, a Republican state representative.
“Does anyone seriously believe no American in the Chicago area can teach marketing for $127,500 a year,” he asked on X. “The same university even has a PHD program for marketing students.”
Purdue University filed 228 H1-B applications in the 2025 fiscal year, according to the Department of Homeland Security’s “Employer Data Hub.” The university system has hired 1,900 H1-B workers since 2009.
Rep. Ireland raises an important point, since these visas are supposed to be for “occupations that require the theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge.”
Another requirement is that employers are truly unable to find a qualified American to fill the role. But this is not the first time the red state university has claimed it cannot find someone to fill a relatively common job position.
🚨 Taxpayer-funded Purdue University disclosed it is hiring a foreigner on an H-1B visa to teach marketing.
Does anyone seriously believe no American in the Chicago area can teach marketing for $127,500 a year?
The same university even has a PHD program for marketing students pic.twitter.com/TlDzVyzCoc
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hmmm
government freebies plus allowed drug trafficking non taxable
vs
working for da man
easy
but dont worry
some grifter will come in and take the money…not the job
but the money
I work in VA….a very small school here is paying 150k+ just to hire and retain in the Business majors like Marketing and Finance. This is a school with some recognition but it is not even close to on the level of a Purdue.
I can see why they aren’t getting it there, but they need to suck it up and raise their payscale. They are Purdue and businesspeople understand the LOSD.
The pay scale is for 9 months, not one year. Of course they can locate and hire a US citizen, but this is also how DEI infects academia. They will do anything except hire a conservative, someone with field experience or a “practitioner’ as the faculty are deeply and deservedly insecure. All H1B visas should be banned at universities. There are more than enough PhDs in all subjects to fill faculty positions. PhD programs have expanded excessively as money drivers to universities. The H1B visa program is the horse trade in letting hundreds of thousands of foreign students into American tax funded university programs.
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