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Presidents Call on Congress to Restore Funds to International Programs

July 28, 2011, 3:05 pm

More than 80 college presidents have signed a letter to Congressional leaders urging them to restore $50-million cut from foreign-language and international academic programs. The  reductions, part of a budget deal approved this year, slash spending on programs authorized under two federal laws, Title VI of the Higher Education Act and the Fulbright-Hays Act. The presidents said the teaching of crucial foreign languages, like Arabic and Farsi, and the study of strategic parts of the world would suffer without the funds, undermining America’s national security and global competitiveness.

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  • procrustes

    I hope none of these are among the presidents who already have cut support for language study, etc. on their own campuses!

  • http://twitter.com/LARC_SDSU LARC SDSU

    ADMIN: It will be a fight, but we believe we’ll be back at full strength next year

  • 609zr

    1) Ask yourself if bringing foreign faculty to America is in the best interest of national security and increased employment for American adjuncts and American unemployed Ph.D.s.   
    2) Regarding global competitiveness, the NSF contribution of $1.25 million for the development of marketable products is money better spent. 
    3) You may also consider the thousands of study abroad students and  faculty working outside their home countries who were murdered in this pursuit.  Just this week 76 activists from Afghanistan, Georgia, the Kurdish regions of Turkey and Iraq, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Lebanon and other countries were murdered in defiance of multiculturalism.

  • MChag12

    Another bitter unemployed adjunct looking for a scapegoat and barking up the wrong tree.  In this case, I’d say there is good reason for his person to be unemployed.  I wouldn’t  it teaching on my campus.

  • 609zr

    Bitter, yes, employed, yes, lots of money in the bank, yes.  Just sick to death of watching my students and colleagues having their brains splattered all over the sidewalk.  I suggest you visit some of these places and meet the locals here and abroad.  You appear to be a textbook  multiculturalist with no face to face experience with any reality outside your tidy little ivory towers.

    Chinese student Xin Yang was decapitated at Virginia Tech University.  My condolences to her family and friends.

    Mchag12:  How many bodies have you scrapped off the sidewalk?  I thought so.

  • 609zr

    SOURCE:  Rate Your Professor.  “ANTHROPOLOGY OF VIOLENCE. He is useless. Might as well not be in class. he shows up and literally tells the class “I dont feel like teaching today. so let just go home….” if you want to really get you money dont take him”

  • MChag12

    You’re  so cute, and so mature.  

  • akprof

    This is too bad – Facebook needs to have a special category for such projects!

  • http://twitter.com/Vaimasenuu Tony Patu

    I love this link, keep it up. 

  • clarinetsarethebest

    I’d feel bad if this weren’t CLEARLY a violation of the site’s terms of service.  Facebook was neither designed nor meant to be an educational tool; it was designed to facilitate the interaction of real people.  Facebook has the right to decide what it considers to be appropriate use of its site and what it considers to be inappropriate use of its site, and the popularity of an inappropriate use does not negate its inappropriateness.

  • clarinetsarethebest

    I’d feel bad if this weren’t CLEARLY a violation of the site’s terms of service.  Facebook was neither designed nor meant to be an educational tool; it was designed to facilitate the interaction of real people.  Facebook has the right to decide what it considers to be appropriate use of its site and what it considers to be inappropriate use of its site, and the popularity of an inappropriate use does not negate its inappropriateness.

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