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10 Increasing the Numbers of Underrepresented Minorities in International Service
Pages 196-208

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From page 196...
... While minority students make up 30 percent of the population of postsecondary students, they make up only 15 percent of the students who choose to study abroad (Institute of International Education, 2004)
From page 197...
... IIPP's Fellowship Program focuses on individual participants by encouraging their interest in possible careers in international affairs, helping them learn a language, providing them with study abroad opportunities, preparing them for and assisting them with graduate studies, and helping them enter employment in an international field. IIPP's Institutional Resource Development Grant Program and the projects funded through other Title VI/FH programs focus at the level of the educational institutions and ways that those institutions can more effectively engage and educate minority students on international issues.
From page 198...
... Given that there are no available evaluations of the prior projects and an evaluation of the current project is still under way, the committee was not able to come to any conclusions regarding the Institutional Resource Development Grant Program. IIPP's primary emphasis is on its Fellowship Program, which offers a comprehensive six-component program to undergraduates who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups aimed at preparing them for careers in international affairs.
From page 199...
... • Junior Summer Policy Institute -- preparation for graduate study. Students attend an eight-week Junior Summer Policy Institute at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy during the summer following overseas study.
From page 200...
... Participants' employment choices were business, government, international organization, educational organization, nonprofit organization, and research organization, with no definitions or instructions on how the categories differed (United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation, 2006)
From page 201...
... The Fellowship Program produced only 212 students from underrepresented groups in its first 10 years, and only a small number of the graduates who might be expected to be employed can be shown to have gained employment in international service or to be pursuing such employment. Its evaluation states that there is a "gap between the commitment to international service, the percentage of fellows that major in this area in graduate school, and the number of fellows that pursue a career in international service" (United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation, 2006, p.
From page 202...
... Texas A&M FY One of this CIBER's outreach activities is its membership in the University 2002- CIBER/United Negro College Fund initiative to promote the 2005 internationalization of business education at historically black colleges and universities. A collaboration with IIPP.
From page 203...
... United Negro FY This project has four goals: (1) to provide relevant and College Fund 2005- comprehensive data about the attitudes and participation Special Programs 2006 patterns of minority undergraduates with respect to Corporation international education activities and programs; (2)
From page 204...
... The State Department's Thomas Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program identifies promising students interested in careers at the State Department. The legislation creating the program states that "special emphasis" should be placed on recruiting minority students.
From page 205...
... , is very similar to the Pickering Program but is even more specifically aimed at getting minority students into graduate international affairs programs and then into the Foreign Service. Like IIPP, it starts with a summer session following the students' junior year to prepare them for graduate school and educate them about career paths.
From page 206...
... Graduates of the program have gone on to employment with the State Department. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS International education programs appear to have had little effect so far on the number of underrepresented minorities in international service, but it is possible to make more of an impact in the future.
From page 207...
... Because foreign language, area, and international studies programs are already established at a wide variety of college campuses with significant minority enrollments, minority outreach should be emphasized. ED should do more to increase the numbers of minority students who see international service as a viable career track and to indicate their interest in grantees reaching this population.
From page 208...
... Applicants might be encouraged, for example, to conduct outreach to K-12 school districts with large minority enrollments or heritage and immigrant populations, and ED might facilitate partnerships between Foreign Language Assistance Program grantees with substantial minority enrollments and Title VI grantees. ED could award points for such efforts in the review process.


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