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...National Intelligence, determines is critical to the national security of the United States.”It is not clear how the critical languages will be selected. Some languages have already received governmental attention through the National Security Agency and the National Security Education Program’s (NSEP) Boren Undergraduate Scholarships. Harvard’s director of federal relations, Suzanne Day, wrote in an e-mail that the NSEP scholarship preferences comprise “the likeliest model [the Secretary] may follow,”Of the foreign languages offering degrees at the College, some Romance and Near Eastern...
...Faculty Council voted to make Harvard an institutional participant in the government-funded NSEP, but members said they wanted to be sure that the program was administered primarily as an educational experience, rather than a national security concern. Faculty Council members also suggested that the locations targeted by the NSEP might be unsafe for students...
...part of the package, the NSEP requires students to use the skills they learn while abroad working for any branch of the government for a similar time period...
Hill said she hopes that Harvard students’ success in earning NSEP and Freeman grants this year will bring more students into those and other study abroad programs. The OIP has made a recent effort to present study abroad as a viable opportunity to the Harvard undergraduate community, she said...
...NSEP grants were also awarded to Waheed A. Gardezi ’07 to study Arabic, Daniel A. Kahn ’06 to study Russian and Cristina M. Valverde ’06 to study Arabic and Moroccan culture...