► The State Department will launch a study abroad branch aiming to increase the number of American students abroad, facilitate study abroad opportunities for diverse participants, and promote opportunities non-traditional locations, reports The Pie News.
► Increasing international student enrollment in U.S. colleges and universities helps to support the funding of many American public colleges, despite perceptions that international students are displacing American students, according to the Wall Street Journal.
► Students who study or work abroad have lower unemployment rates and earn higher quality jobs than their non-mobile peers, according to a study conducted by the UK Higher Education International Unit.
► Five former U.S. ambassadors to Germany believe CBYX funding cuts “run contrary to U.S. interests,” and urge the State Department and Congress to restore funding for the program, in an open letter published by The Hill.
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► Funding cuts to the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) are facing bipartisan criticism from members of Congress, as well as from the German government. Deutsche Welle reports that the cuts have sparked “a unique transatlantic coalition.”