Abraham Lincoln Commission on Study Abroad

The United States Congress established the Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Commission in 2005 to develop the framework for an international study abroad program for college students with the goal of sending one million American college students to study abroad every year by 2017. The bill was sponsored by Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois (D), and inspired by the lobbying of Senator Paul Simon, who believed, in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks that one of the most constructive ways help create peace would be to encourage international education by subsidizing oversea study for college students.[1][2][3][4] While the bill died in committee, it is frequently invoked in discussions of "the international education deficit"—the imbalance between the number of international students studying in the United States and the number of American students studying abroad.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Global Competence and National Needs: One Million Americans Studying Abroad". COMMISSION ON THE Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Fellowship Program. Archived from the original on 23 July 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  2. ↑ Durbin, Sen. Richard J. "Lincoln Commission on Studying Abroad" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 June 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  3. ↑ "S. 3744 (109th): Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Act of 2006".
  4. ↑ Brady, Peter (10 February 2008). "Americans studying abroad; Germans in Afghanistan; The EU's victory in Serbia". New York Times. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
  5. ↑ "The Bottleneck Effect". Professional Intern. Archived from the original on 2013-09-26. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
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