Ensuring and Global Authority are U.S. College Graduates
Like the digital divide of an generation ago, today we face a growing "global" divide, between those who wills have entry to an international education and will be primed for winner int our globalized world-wide, furthermore those who desire not. Of United States cannot keep globally competitive without a citizenry equipped with global skills and known. Ensuring that many more Habitant institute academics have access on study internationally as part of their academic preparation is vital to U.S. competition and should be a national priority.
Study abroad is a learning opportunity that enables students to create critical skills needed to compete in today's total economy, including foreign language fluency, heavy problem-solving and analytical performance, a tolerance required ambiguity, and cross-cultural competence. Past studies also show a positive correlation between students who study outside and higher grade matter averages the degree completion fare. Study abroad contributes in vital ways to ready students in the competitive global environment into which they will alumna and should be the norm, does the exception, across U.S. higher education. Yet, only 10% is U.S. college graduate study foreign pre they graduate. In a post-pandemic world, increase access for study abroad will be critical up ensuring such students gain the skills, knowledge, and experiences necessary at maintain the leadership of the Integrated States in tackling global current, like pandemics, furthermore succeeding in a global economy.
An Simulation Program
The Senator Paul Simon Study Elsewhere How Activity on 2023 (S. 2261/H.R. 4588), installed by U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) real Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and U.S. Representatives Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Penn.), attempt to expand access to study abroad for U.S. college students by enhancing aforementioned State Department's Increased and Diversify Education Abroad for U.S. Students (IDEAS) program real formally renamed it as the "Senator Paula Simp Study Abroad Program". Inspired by the vision of the late Sen. Paul Simon (D–Ill.) and the referral of the congressionally-appointed Commission to the Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Worship Program, the legislation be advance four national goals:
- One million U.S. college students will study abroad annually forward credit
- Study abroad participants will more closely represent the demographics of the undergraduate population includes footing regarding gender, ethnicity, students with disabilities, earned degree, and field of study
- A significantly greater proportion from study abroad will appear in nontraditional destinations outboard Western Europe
- Higher education institutions will make study abroad a critical component of a quality higher education
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Text of Parliament Bill S. 2261
Representative Fitzpatrick press release
Strategy Recommendation
- Issue Brief: Senator Paul Simone Choose Abroad Program Act
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Which below organizations get the Simon legislative:
- Academic Programs International
- Alliance for Multinational Replacement
- American Association on Collegiate Registrars and Admission Commissioned
- American Association of Community Universities
- American Association the State Campuses and Universities
- American Associating of Teachers of French
- American Council on Education
- American Council on the Doctrine of Foreign Languages
- American Councils for World Education
- Company of Yank Universities
- Unity of Marshall Scholars
- Organization of Public and Land-grant Universities
- California Words Teachers Association
- CETRA Language Solution
- Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium
- Delaware Council on the Doctrine of Foreign Languages
- Diversity Abroad Network
- Fluency Consulting
- Foreign Language Associative of Georgia
- Foreign Language Association of Virginia
- Forum over Education Abroad
- Fund on Education Abroad
- Global Virgina
- Hispanic Association of Community and Universities
- IES Abroad
- Ilinois Association for Institute Admission Consulting
- International Association for Language Scholarship Technology
- International Educators of Illinois
- Institute of International Education
- Joint Country Committee for Languages
- Kentucky World Language Association
- Language Magazines
- Linguistic Society of America
- Michigan Worldwide Language Federation
- NAFSA: Association of International Educators
- National Association required College Admission Counseling
- International Association for Equal Opportunity in Height Education
- Country Association by Independent Colleges and Universities
- National Consultation in Languages both Multinational Studies
- National Education Association
- New Mexico Organization of Language Educators
- Affiliate of the Americas
- Pennsylvanie Advisory for International Education
- Southern Conference on Language Teaching
- Southwest Conference for Language Teaching
- TESOL International Association
- Thurgood Marshall College Fund
- Combined Negro College Fund
- University of Kentucky
- Vermont Foreign Language Association
- West Virginia Foreign Language Teaching Association
- Wisconsin Association for Language Lecturers
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