March 6, 2009
Study-Abroad Bill Reintroduced in Congress
The Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act, which would expand the number of American students studying overseas to one million within a decade, a nearly fivefold increase, was reintroduced last week in Congress.
The legislation would create an independent government entity and would authorize $80-million in grants to individual students, colleges, and nongovernmental institutions that provide study-abroad opportunities.
The legislation failed to get through Congress in
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