| Penelope Sommers: | |
| Name: | Penelope Sommers |
| Academic Institution: | Northern Kentucky University |
| Co-autores/Co-authors: | Brent Schandling, Northern Kentucky University |
| email: | summerspb@nku.edu, psummers96@aol.com |
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| Paper Title | USA Patriot Act and Universities: A Changing Cultural Face? |
| Abstract: | The "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism" Act, better known as the USA PATRIOT Act, passed Congress in October 2001 under the banner of deterring and punishing future terrorist acts domestically and abroad. The Act also called for enforcing regulations and establishing procedures to monitor international visitors to the United States, including those in the country as students. International students studying at American colleges and universities are a benefit globally, to the United States, and to those who choose to study there. Those benefits include campus diversity, cultural understanding, teaching and research (particularly in the sciences), and about $12 billion, in 2002, to the U.S. economy. According to the European Commission, 73 percent of students from the European Union who earn doctorates in the United States remain there to work, and those who do not remain, often bring new practices, information and technology to underdeveloped countries. This paper set out to examine policies required of American universities under the Act, and interviewed international students at a Midwestern public university regarding their reaction to the requirements. |