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Passage 1 for Recitation
American politicians have great difficulty recognizing that admitting more foreign students can greatly promote the national interest by increasing international understanding. Adjusted for inflation, public funding for international exchanges and foreign-language study is well below the levels of 40 years ago, in the wake of September 11, changes in the visa process caused a dramatic decline in the number of foreign students seeking admission to . universities, and a corresponding surge in enrollments in Australia, Singapore and the . Objections from American university and the business leaders led to improvements in the process and reversal of the decline, but the United States is still seen by many as ing to international students.
Most Americans recognize that universities contribute to the nation’s well-being through their scientific research, but many fear that foreign students threaten petitiveness by taking their knowledge and skills back home. They fail to grasp that ing foreign students to the United States has two importan