July 5, 2002

College Groups Clash Over Deadline for Database on Foreign Students

By STEPHEN BURD

Justice Department officials have received mixed messages from higher-education lobbyists regarding a proposed requirement that colleges begin using a new national database for tracking foreign students in the United States by January 30, 2003.

In a letter to the department, one association, which represents primarily foreign-student advisers, called the proposed deadline "impossible to fulfill" and accused the agency of knowingly proposing an unrealistic deadline to "deflect political

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