Subcommittees Debate Proposal to Bring International Students to U.S. – Chronicle.com

Subcommittees Debate Proposal to Bring International Students to U.S. – Chronicle.com: “Since coming to the United States as a college student, Rachel Ochako, a Kenyan who was orphaned at age 13, has developed a love of economics and novels, enjoying discussions in her classes at Middlebury College where she is encouraged to disagree. She credits the Davis United World College Scholars program, which gave her a private scholarship covering much of her tuition, for enabling her to ‘take different perspectives back’ from the United States to her home country.

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“The ‘Uniting Students in America’ program would finance 7,500 scholarships each year for undergraduates from foreign countries who come from low-income families. Rep. William Delahunt, a Democrat from Massachusetts [and a Middlebury graduate] who is the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight, said he plans to introduce a bill by the end of the summer that would create the scholarship program.”