ACE supports Study Abroad act

The American Council on Education (ACE) sent a letter this week to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs to express support for the Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act of 2007 (H.R. 1469), legislation to establish a national study abroad fellowship program. The bill would create a fellowship program with the goal of increasing the number of students studying abroad from app. 200,000 currently to one million per year. Sens. Norm Coleman and Dick Durbin will introduce a companion bill in the Senate in the coming weeks.