University presidents take leadership role in effort to restore federal funding to vital foreign language and culture programs - Indiana University

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie has reached out to congressional leaders, urging them to restore federal funding for international education and foreign language studies programs cut from the current fiscal year budget. In a letter co-authored by McRobbie and Georgetown President John J. DeGioia, and signed by more than 80 college and university presidents from around the country, McRobbie called on Congress to restore $50 million in cuts to the Department of Education's HEA-Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs. In addition to IU, presidents of seven other Big Ten universities, as well as the presidents of leading schools such as Columbia, Princeton, Cornell, Stanford and New York University signed the letter.