Education in a Globalized World

What does the federal government see its role to be in both the recruitment of international students who wish to study in the United States, and the subsidization of costs for American students who wish to study abroad?

This question comes from Will Price, a senior at Colby from Durham, North Carolina, and Sulaiman Nasseri, a sophomore from Kabul, Afghanistan.

Will spent the spring semester of his junior year living first in Beijing, China and then in Harbin, China. During his time spent abroad, Will learned not only the Chinese language, but developed a tangible connection to the culture, history and people of a country that is quickly rising to world power status. Sulaiman is a United World College student who cares deeply about the relationship between the U.S. and other countries. Will and Sulaiman hope that the federal government will take seriously its potential to be a facilitator of both the recruitment of international students and the subsidization of abroad experiences for American students who might not otherwise be able to afford it.

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