At least 100 college students from Iraq this year, and more coming

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<p>Article from today’s Cleveland Plain Dealer - 100 Iraqi college students this year here in Ohio and 200 more (this year or next year?) across the U.S. </p>

<p>Sounds good. The Iraqi students will earn college degrees and gain an understanding of what life is like outside of Iraq. I wonder what the male-female ratio will be.
[Agreement</a> with Iraq to bring 100 students to Ohio colleges - cleveland.com](<a href=“http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/07/agreement_with_iraq_to_bring_1.html]Agreement”>Agreement with Iraq to bring 100 students to Ohio colleges | cleveland.com)

Ohio’s public colleges and universities will add 100 Iraqi students to their campuses in the coming school year
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Eric Fingerhut will sign a memo of understanding on Saturday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Washington, D.C., that will commit the first wave of Iraqi students to Ohio.</p>

<p>The Iraqi Education Initiative, created by the Iraqi government to help young people earn college degrees, has plans to send 10,000 students away to schools in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia in the next five years. The Iraqi government will pay for their education.
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Another group of 22 U.S. colleges has formed the American Universities Iraq Consortium, and will accept 200 Iraqi students for the next school year.

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<p>This article says the students will owe a year of service for each year of tuition they receive.
<a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/07/07/iraq[/url]”>http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/07/07/iraq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Humadi said that students have to sign a contract with the Iraqi government committing to one year of work in Iraq for each year of scholarship support; they agree to repay their scholarship if they do not return. As an added incentive, students who return can earn further scholarships: If a student completed a two-year master’s degree abroad, for instance, and subsequently spent two years working in Iraq, that student would be guaranteed a second scholarship toward a Ph.D.

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