International Exchange and Training
Activities of the U.S. Government
1993 Report

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USIA's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs prepares an annual report to inform Congress, institutions in the public and private sectors, and interested individuals of the status of U.S.-government funded exchange activity.

Did you know, for example, that the National Endowment for the Humanities operates a program titled Summer Seminars for School Teachers, and will pay for the international travel of participants when the seminars are held abroad? Or that USIA has a "Top-Up" program that can provide students from the Baltic states and nations of the former Soviet Union with the additional financial resources needed to be able to enroll in American colleges and universities?

The 1993 Report summarizes the work of 23 federal departments and agencies that conduct international exchange and training programs. It includes descriptions of over 100 programs involving more than 105,000 exchange participants, and costing $1.4 billion in federal funding. Among the programs described is the Citizen Exchanges Program, which coordinated the NIS Secondary School Initiative, under which 5,500 high school students were exchanged in FY1993--"the largest youth exchange ever attempted."


            1993 U.S. Government
International Exchange and Training Programs


Country           Americans        Visitors
                  Going to        Coming from
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Armenia              68              189
Azerbaijan           33              114
Belarus             184              211
Estonia             169              265
Georgia              22              116
Kazakhstan          147              223
Kyrgyzstan          112              171
Latvia              165              187
Lithuania           137              124
Moldova              37              100
Russia            4,449            6,629
Tajikistan            3               69
Tatarstan             -                8
Turkmenistan         48              103
Ukraine             503              999
Uzbekistan          147              339
                 ------           ------

Total             6,224            9,847

Source:  1993 Report: International Exchange and
Training Activities of the U.S. Government,
prepared by the Office of Policy Evaluation,
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs,
United States Information Agency, p. 185

The Report gives the names and telephone numbers of officials to contact in reference to each particular program. To obtain copies of the report contact:

Gloria Simms
Office of Policy and Evaluation (E/Z)
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
United States Information Agency
Washington, DC 20547
Tel. (202) 619-5307
This article is from the November 1994 issue of
Civil Society ... East and West

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Last updated: December 1995

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