The short answer is "It's the law." Here's the long answer:
UMR offers an Explosives Engineering emphasis within the Mining Engineering degree program. Certain key courses require either U.S. citizenship or permanent resident alien status, in compliance with the Safe Explosives Act (one part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002).
http://www.atf.gov/explarson/safexpact/
If you want to be a mining engineer but can't get permanent resident alien status, you are not excluded from the entire university or even from the Mining Engineering department. You simply cannot get that particular minor. Since UMR is the only institution in the country offering that minor, it could hardly be considered essential to ones career.
ghoul: True, the article says that Dr. Worsey is British (and stocky), but what leads you to think he isn't a U.S. citizen? If not, he would likely be a permanent resident alien, since he clearly has long term employment in the U.S.
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The short answer is "It's the law." Here's the long answer:
UMR offers an Explosives Engineering emphasis within the Mining Engineering degree program. Certain key courses require either U.S. citizenship or permanent resident alien status, in compliance with the Safe Explosives Act (one part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002). http://www.atf.gov/explarson/safexpact/
If you want to be a mining engineer but can't get permanent resident alien status, you are not excluded from the entire university or even from the Mining Engineering department. You simply cannot get that particular minor. Since UMR is the only institution in the country offering that minor, it could hardly be considered essential to ones career.
ghoul: True, the article says that Dr. Worsey is British (and stocky), but what leads you to think he isn't a U.S. citizen? If not, he would likely be a permanent resident alien, since he clearly has long term employment in the U.S.