Title VI of the Higher Education Act creates academic and fellowship programs to serve American interests by funding the study of foreign languages and cultures, including for international commerce. Yet, most of the funding goes to “area studies” programs that work against American interests.
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A new report by Scholars at Risk details tactics to silence and intimidate students and professors, as well as a climate of surveillance and self-censorship.
Four Afghan scholars have come to UC Irvine since December 2021, finding interim housing and work. But as conditions in Afghanistan continue to deteriorate, and public interest shifts to other crises, their fate is uncertain.