§ 5441. — Educational and cultural exchanges and sister institutions programs with Poland and Hungary.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC5441]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 63--SUPPORT FOR EAST EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY (SEED)
SUBCHAPTER III--EDUCATIONAL, CULTURAL, AND SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
Sec. 5441. Educational and cultural exchanges and sister
institutions programs with Poland and Hungary
(a) Educational and cultural exchanges
(1) Support for expanded U.S. participation
The United States should expand its participation in educational
and cultural exchange activities with Poland and Hungary, using the
full array of existing government-funded and privately-funded
programs, with particular emphasis on the J. William Fulbright
Educational Exchange Program, the International Visitors Program,
the Samantha Smith Memorial Exchange Program, the exchange programs
of the National Academy of Sciences, youth and student exchanges
through such private organizations as The Experiment in
International Living, The American Field Service Committee, and
Youth for Understanding, and research exchanges sponsored by the
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX).
(2) Emphasis on skills in business and economics
The United States should place particular emphasis on expanding
its participation in educational exchange activities that will
assist in developing the skills in business and economics that are
necessary for the development of a free market economy in Poland and
Hungary.
(b) Binational Fulbright commissions
The United States should take all appropriate action to establish
binational Fulbright commissions with Poland and Hungary in order to
facilitate and enhance academic and scholarly exchanges with those
countries.
(c) Reciprocal cultural centers
The President should consider the establishment of reciprocal
cultural centers in Poland and the United States and in Hungary and the
United States to facilitate government-funded and privately-funded
cultural exchanges.
(d) Sister institutions programs
The President shall act to encourage the establishment of ``sister
institution'' programs between American and Polish organizations and
between American and Hungarian organizations, including such
organizations as institutions of higher education, cities and towns, and
organizations in such fields as medicine and health care, business
management, environmental protection, and agricultural research and
marketing.
(e) Authorization of appropriations
To enable the United States Information Agency to support the
activities described in this section, there are authorized to be
appropriated $12,000,000 for the 3-year period beginning October 1,
1989, in addition to amounts otherwise available for such purposes.
(Pub. L. 101-179, title IV, Sec. 401, Nov. 28, 1989, 103 Stat. 1314.)
Transfer of Functions
United States Information Agency (other than Broadcasting Board of
Governors and International Broadcasting Bureau) abolished and functions
transferred to Secretary of State, see sections 6531 and 6532 of this
title.
