November 25, 2005

Panel Supports Grants for Study Abroad

By BURTON BOLLAG

A U.S. government panel's report, released this month, asks Congress and the president to create a new fellowship program to increase the number of American undergraduates studying abroad a decade from now to one million a year.

That would be more than five times as many as in 2003-4 — the latest academic year for which figures are available — when 191,321 students went overseas to study, according to the Institute of International Education, which tracks

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