Chen Wei-chao, president of National Taiwan University, wrote in an article that while there has been no dramatic decline in the number of Taiwan students studying in the US, it is already clear that there is no new generation taking the place of the old in American academic circles.
台灣大學校長陳維昭曾為文指出，雖然台灣的留美人數並未急劇滑落，但進入美國學術界的人才已顯露青黃不接的現象。