Sec. 402. International affairs institutions at minority-serving institutions
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Congress makes the following findings: Representative Alcee L. Hastings of Florida served his State and country with distinction as a public servant for more than 4 decades, including nearly 3 decades of service in the House of Representatives, and a decade as the first African-American appointed judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Representative Hastings’ distinguished record as a congressman includes— service as the first African-American Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (commonly known as the Helsinki Commission ); and membership on— the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives ; the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives ; and the Committee on Rules of the House of Representatives .
Representative Hastings has long maintained a special interest in international affairs, global security, and democracy and human rights, as demonstrated by— his service as the only United States citizen American to serve as the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCEPA); and leading OSCEPA election observation efforts across 57 countries, including securing the first OSCE international election observation mission in 2002 to the United States.
Representative Hastings has— pioneered domestic and global initiatives, beginning with his desegregation efforts as a civil rights lawyer; championed numerous bills in Congress in support of Native American rights; led legislative efforts to increase representation in the United States diplomatic and intelligence corps; and founded international political participation initiatives, such as the Black European Summit, the Transatlantic Minority Political Leadership Conference, and Transatlantic Inclusion Leaders Network, in cooperation with European officials and organizations, people of African descent, Roma, and other stakeholders.
Representative Hastings attended Fisk University, Howard University, and Florida A&M University, which are all Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and has avidly supported the excellence of minority-serving institutions and their roles in preparing outstanding scholars to pursue international public service careers. It is a fitting tribute to Representative Hastings’ years of devoted public service to establish, in his name, international affairs institutes, extension campuses, and other programs at minority-serving institutions in the United States and overseas that support excellence in international public service careers and the development of diverse global leaders.
The Secretary shall establish the Alcee L. Hastings International Affairs Institutions Program (referred to in this section as the Program ). Under the Program, the Secretary shall award grants to not fewer than 5 Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other minority-serving institutions that the Secretary determines are able to prepare the next generation of diverse international affairs professionals with the core skills necessary to meet the United States’ global diplomatic and development imperatives.
A grant under this section may be used for— the purchase, rent, lease, or construction of institutional facilities; administrative management, and the acquisition of equipment, including computers, office supplies, software licensing and agreements, and other materials; scholarships, fellowships, and other financial assistance for students and scholars; the development of curricula and other instructional materials; and other related activities proposed in the grant application and approved by the Secretary.
Any eligible institution seeking a grant under this section, including the institutions listed under subsection (e), may submit an application to the Secretary that demonstrates how grant funds awarded pursuant to this section will be used— to improve graduate educational opportunities for low-income African Americans, Latinos, Hispanics, or Native Americans students and lead such students to greater financial independence; to provide at least 3 weeks of immersive foreign language instruction; to support at least 1 summer or semester study abroad opportunity; and to provide instruction on the history and work of international organizations, including the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Organization for American States, the African Union, the Council of Europe, the European Union, and the United Nations.
Institutions and programs eligible for grants under this subsection shall include— the International Affairs Program of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center at Howard University; Delaware State University; Fisk University; Morgan State University; and South Carolina State University. The president or chancellor of the institution applying for a grant under this section may select which graduate or professional school will receive funds received under such grant in any fiscal year, if the allocation of grant funds among the schools or programs is delineated in the application submitted to the Secretary.
There is authorized to be appropriated, for each of the fiscal years 2025 through 2034, $100,000,000, which shall be expended to carry out the Program. Any of the institutions listed under subsection
(e)that receives a grant in a fiscal year and is eligible to receive another grant in a subsequent fiscal year shall receive, in the subsequent fiscal year, an amount in grant funds that is not less than the amount in grant funds received in any previous fiscal year unless the amount appropriated for the Program by Congress is insufficient to provide such level of grant funding to all eligible institutions in such fiscal year. Section 6709 of the Department of State Authorization Act of 2023 ( 22 U.S.C. 8201 note) is amended— in subsection (a), by inserting Alcee L. Hastings Leadership before Institute for Transatlantic Engagement ; by striking subsections
(f)and (i); and by redesignating subsections
(g)and
(h)as subsections
(f)and (g), respectively; and in subsection (g), as redesignated, by striking for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 and inserting for each fiscal year . Section 9201(a) of Public Law 117–263 ( 22 U.S.C. 2737 ) is amended— in the subsection header, by striking and inserting In general ; Establishment by striking The Secretary and inserting the following: The Secretary ; and by adding at the end the following: There is established within the Program, the Alcee L. Hastings OSCE Internship Program (referred to in this section as the Hastings Internship ), which shall— support not fewer than 57 paid internships overseas in participating states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (referred to in this section as OSCE , and OSCE partners for co-operation, including the United States OSCE mission in Vienna, Austria, and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Copenhagen, Denmark, for undergraduate students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other minority-serving institutions; and convene all Hastings Internship participants for a 1-day program in Vienna on the history and work of the OSCE, including international election observations. .
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