July 4, 2003

Area-Studies Programs Come Under Fire

By ELIZABETH CRAWFORD

A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee heard charges in June that federally financed international-studies programs at American colleges and universities are biased against U.S. foreign policy and should be more tightly regulated.

The foreign-language and area-studies programs, which are supported under Title VI of the Higher Education Act, "tend to purvey extreme and one-sided criticisms of American foreign policy," Stanley Kurtz, a research fellow at Stanford University's

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