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...students won thousands of dollars from the National Education Security Program (NSEP), which targets “world regions critical to U.S. interests,” and the Freeman-Asia grants, which are available only to students with financial need and aim to increase study of East Asian countries...
Instituted as a pilot program nationwide lastyear, the NSEP provides funds from the U.S.Department of Defense for undergraduate andgraduate students to take part in foreign-areastudies...
...fact that the program is currently housedin the defense sector is in certain countriessomething that could be held against students andscholars," said Bol, who chaired a Faculty Councilsubcommittee on the NSEP issue. "They could befalsely targeted as agents of the U.S.government...
...priority of people who do area studies is tosee that this change comes about," Bol said. "Ifthe program is moved to the Department ofEducation it's much harder [for foreigngovernments] to make that argument [thatparticipants in the NSEP program act as agents ofthe U.S. government...
...There are many people in academia and atHarvard who feel very strongly that they wouldlike to see this shifted to the Department ofEducation rather than be defense andintelligence-related," said McCole, who served onthe Council's NSEP subcommittee...