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USG Foreign Student Policy?
2007-08-04 14:10:08 来源：未知 |
In an editorial on Saturday, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune recommended that the USG adopt a government-wide policy regarding international educational exchange, particularly with respect to the admission and enrollment of foreign students.
Editorial: Foreign students/U.S. needs national policy "I have a special message for young people across the world," said Karen Hughes, the new U.S. undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs,at her Senate confirmation hearing July 22. "We’re improving our visa process, and we want you to come and study in America."
Those were among the most important words Hughes spoke that day, as she described the task before her -- the fostering of greater mutual understanding among Americans and the rest of the world’s people. For decades, higher education was one of this nation’s most effective tools of people-to-people diplomacy. The world’s brightest young people enrolled at American colleges and universities because they were indisputably among the world’s best. Those institutions welcomed the students for the varied backgrounds and intellectual horsepower they brought to campuses. Upon graduation, international students either stayed in the United States, contributing much to this nation, or returned home, taking with them a positive perspective about America and its people.That started to change even before Sept. 11, 2001, as other nations caught on to the advantages that international students bring, and began aggressively recruiting them. At the same time, the quality of higher education improved in a number of developing nations. Those countries sold studying at home as a matter of national loyalty.
Then 9/11 made matters worse. Obtaining a student visa became a more complicated and costly process as security restrictions were imposed. The word went out in many non-Western countries that America didn’t want foreign students anymore.
That word is wrong, and the need to correct it is urgent. Hughes’ desire to do so is encouraging. For sound advice about how to proceed, she would do well to turn to the Association of International Educators (NAFSA), headed by former Minnesota Lt. Gov. Marlene Johnson.
"We need a national policy and a national strategy on international education," Johnson said last week. It’s not enough for individual colleges and universities to recruit students in scattershot fashion, and run the gantlet of changeable visa procedures. The federal government should get
into the act, targeting the nations and the disciplines of study that this nation most wants represented by foreign students on American campuses. It should also start paying attention to the flow of Americans to study abroad. Those numbers have been growing in recent years, and a new federally funded effort to send American students to developing countries is about to get off the ground. Still, only about 1 percent of U.S. undergraduates study abroad for credit.
More could be done to encourage Americans to learn in foreign lands and become fluent in foreign languages. "We need to see that our national interest is at stake here," Johnson said.
NAFSA has been urging the establishment of a single office, charged by the White House with coordinating the nation’s student foreign exchange effort. In Karen Hughes, the Bush administration now has a top official with the portfolio and influence to make that happen. She should.
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