TITLE: Homeland Security: Tracking International Students in Higher Education: Progress and Issues Since 9/11

CIS-NO: 2003-H341-4  
SOURCE: Committee on Education and the Workforce. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: Sept. 24, 2002  
LENGTH: iv+146 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-2  
ITEM-NO: 1015-A; 1015-B  
SUDOC: Y4.ED8/1:107-79  
 
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-29141-5.

SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-79. Hearing before the Subcom on 21st Century Competitiveness and the Subcom on Select Education to examine the regulation of foreign students enrolled in higher education programs at U.S. institutions and to review policy recommendations to enhance security of international student programs, in light of findings that some individuals responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. may have held student visas.
 
Supplementary material (p. 45-146) includes submitted statements and witnesses' written statements and written replies to Subcom questions.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Student visa requirements and procedures, security issues review

DESCRIPTORS:  
   SUBCOM ON 21ST CENTURY COMPETITIVENESS. HOUSE;  STUDENTS; IMMIGRATION; PASSPORTS AND VISAS; TERRORISM

03-H341-4 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Sept. 24, 2002 p. 9-43, 61-123
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   FINE, GLENN A. (Inspector General, Department of Justice)
   EDSON, STEPHEN A. (Acting Managing Director, Directorate of Visa Affairs, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Department of State)
   SPOSATO, JANIS (Assistant Deputy Executive Associate Commissioner, Immigration Services Division, INS)
   WARD, DAVID (President, American Council on Education; also representing numerous other education organizations)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Overview of visa clearance procedures and tracking policy for foreign students; explanation of eligibility requirements for foreign student admittance; examination of proposal to enhance foreign student regulation with student tracking programs.
   Issues related to role of academic community in regulation of foreign students; review of college and university admissions procedures for international students; issues related to college and university roles as monitors of foreign student enrollment.
   Recommendations to facilitate cooperation between INS and academic community in foreign student tracking efforts; recommendations to enhance security of student visa system.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Student visa requirements and procedures, security issues review
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   ACADEMY FOR EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; ACCREDITING ASSOCIATION OF BIBLE COLLEGES; AIFS, INC.; ALLIANCE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE; AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION; AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF NURSING; AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE; AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF PHARMACY; AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE REGISTRARS AND ADMISSIONS OFFICERS; AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES; AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PRESIDENTS OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES; AMERICAN COLLEGE PERSONNEL ASSOCIATION; AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: ACTR/ACCELS; AMERICAN DENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION; AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN STUDY FOUNDATION; AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PRACTICAL TRAINING; AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION; AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION; AMITY INTERNATIONAL; ASEE ENGINEERING DEANS COUNCIL; ASSOCIATED COLLEGES OF THE MIDWEST; ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES; ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES; ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES; ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL COLLEGES; ASSOCIATION OF CATHOLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES; ASSOCIATION OF CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGES; ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART & DESIGN; ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ADMINISTRATORS; ASSOCIATION OF JESUIT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES; ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN BAPTIST COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS; AUPAIRCARE; AYUSA; BRITISH UNIVERSITIES NORTH AMERICA CLUB; COALITION OF HIGHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE ORGANIZATIONS; CONSORTIUM OF UNIVERSITIES OF THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA; CONSORTIUM ON GOVERNMENT RELATIONS FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS; COUNCIL FOR ADVANCEMENT AND SUPPORT OF EDUCATION; COUNCIL FOR CHRISTIAN COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES; COUNCIL FOR HIGHER EDUCATION ACCREDITATION; COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS USA; COUNCIL FOR OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION; COUNCIL OF DIRECTORS OF TITLE VI NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTERS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND AREA STUDIES; COUNCIL OF GRADUATE SCHOOLS; COUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES; COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE; EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE; EDUCAUSE; EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA; HISPANIC ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES; INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION; INTEREXCHANGE; INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE OF NORTH AMERICA; INTRAX ENGLISH INSTITUTE; INTRAX WORKTRAVEL; LUTHERAN EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE OF NORTH AMERICA; NAFSA: ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATORS; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY BUSINESS OFFICERS; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATE-PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UNIVERSITIES AND LAND-GRANT COLLEGES; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT FINANCIAL AID ADMINISTRATORS; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATORS; NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL VISITORS; NATIONAL COUNCIL OF ORGANIZATIONS OF LESS COMMONLY TAUGHT LANGUAGES; TEACHERS OF ENGLISH TO SPEAKERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES, INC.; COLLEGE BOARD; U.S. STUDENT ASSOCIATION; UNIVERSITY CONTINUING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION; WORLD EDUCATION SERVICES; YMCA INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM SERVICES; AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION; OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL, JUSTICE DEPT.; IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE; COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES; DEPARTMENT OF STATE

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