C - OALITION FOR I NTERNATIONAL E DUCATION

While the Department of Education works to ensure that their programs prioritize the targeted language and world regional resource needs of these agencies, the independent scholarship and diverse perspectives on world regions and international business that these programs enable are often sought by all branches of government. [...] Students from all racial and socio-economic backgrounds would have more opportunities to obtain the international experience and skills in growing demand across a wide range of professional and technical fields impacting our global engagement, security and competitiveness. [...] w Address the rapidly growing demand for professionals and educators with area, regional, international/global business and foreign language knowledge and experience across government and the workforce. [...] w Supplement the average grants for all Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs to strengthen and restore capacity, enabling more students to be served, more critical programs to be offered, as well as facilitating more outreach activities to government, business and under-served educational institutions; and w Increase the number of grants under all Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs to restore th. [...] higher education, Title VI and Fulbright-Hays are the federal government’s most comprehensive and multifaceted international education and foreign language programs.