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PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE goth CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION
WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1968
Senate
S. 3700--INTRODUCTION OF BILL RE-
LATING TO U.S. FOREIGN SERVICE
CORPS
Mr. DOMINICK. Mr. President, I In-
troduce, for appropriate reference, a bill
to amend the Higher Education Act of
1965.
We now have in excess of 75,000 civil-
lans employed by federal departments
and agencies who are serving in foreign
countries or territories. We have military
academies to train career personnel for
the defense of this country by the Armed
Forces. We have a Peace Corps to send
volunteers abroad to help those less for-
tunate. Yet, we are pitifully lacking in
the development of any meaningful pro-
gram of professional education, training,
and research activities, designed to build
and maintain the highest caliber of com-
petence for U.S. employees serving on
foreign soil, all of whom are emissaries
of our Nation.
In the 25 years since the first Foreign
Service Academy bill was Introduced in
Congress a number of academy proposals
have been made-including legislation I
have Introduced in both the House of
Representatives and the Senate. Precious
time has elapsed, and we continue to lose
ground. I want to change it.
It Is time for a new approach and a
departure from the past. It is time for
a rededication to the goals we have
sought to achieve. It is time for an
amalgamation of purpose with the many
fine educational institutions in America.
The U.S. Foreign Service Corps which
I am today proposing will accomplish
this by concentrating our investment in
people instead of property, avoiding large
capital outlays for buildings, grounds
and equipment, offering varied but care-
fully coordinated undergraduate and
graduate programs including field train-
ing for preemployment as well as In-
service training and research utilizing,
rather than competing with, the facili-
ties and academic expertise of educa-
tional institutions, public and private,
while preserving their control and ob-
jectiveness, maintaining the desirable
flexibility and independence to maximize
opportunities for charting new courses
and altering old ones in foreign affairs,
providing access to the full breadth of
curriculums taught by the top minds in
the country, harnessing a continual and
prepared reservoir of representative
talent from diverse sectors of American
life with a variety of educational back-
grounds from many colleges and univer-
sities.
Responsibility for supervision of the
Corps would rest with a nine-member
board of trustees : The Secretary of State,
four educators appointed by the Presi-
dent, two Members of the Senate and two
Members of the House of Representa-
tives. Not more than one of the trustees
from the Senate nor more than one of
the trustees from the House may be of
the same political party. Provision is
made for staggering of the longer terms
of the educators to promote continuity.
The Corps would consist of students in
addition to Government officers and em-
ployees who have duties and responsi-
bilities in the field of foreign relations.
The board of trustees is directed to make
arramoements with qualified non-Fed-
cral institutions of higher learning to
provide for the admission of qualified
nicnrbers of the Corps to such Institu-
tions to pursue approved courses of study
or research activities in the field of for-
eign relations. Undergraduate and grad-
uate programs leading to degrees would
be available for students, but Govern-
ment officers and employees would have
access to part-time as well as full-time
programs. Appropriate orientation and
language training for family members
of persons admitted to the Corps and of
all Government employees whether or
not admitted to the Corps Is authorized
as their time for assignment to a foreign
country or area nears.
Government officers and employees
would be admitted to the Corps upon
selection by the head of their depart-
ment or agency. While in the Corps
their compensation would be maintained
by their department or agency and they
would be reimbursed for specified educa-
tional expenses. On completion of his or
her education, training, research or
course of study within a Corps program,
such member would be entitled to con-
tinue service in the former position or
one of like seniority and status.
Students would be admitted to the
Corps through a nomination and com-
petitive examination process. Some
would be nominated from the United
States at large to take the competitive
examinations held by the board. Others
would be nominated by the Governors
of each State, the Virgin Islands and
Canal Zone, the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
But by far the greater number of nomi-
nations would arise from the require-
ment that there also be 30 nominated at
large from each State-15 nominated by
each Senator from the State-and 15
from each congressional district-nomi-
nated by the Representative from the
district. Once nominated, applicants
would be selected for membership in the
Corps in the order of merit established
by the competitive examinations. Stu-
dent Corps members would be required
to maintain satisfactory progress in at
least a minimum level of full-time credit
courses and would be compensated for
tuition, texts, laboratory fees, and course
materials and receive specified subsist-
ence payments. Upon satisfactory com-
pletion of his course of study leading to
an undergraduate or graduate degree,
the student member would be eligible
for hiring or appointment by the United
States In connection with any program
of the Government relating to the field
of foreign relations.
All Corps members would be required
to accept employment or remain in the
employment of the United Sta.tcs for a
time certain after leaving the Corps.
Mr. President, since its establishment
In 1946, the Foreign Service Institute has
grown considerably -nd contributed
much. But it has been the subject of con-
troversy and, as you will recall, each of
the two Presidential advisory bodies
created in 1961 concluded FSI was ex-
cessively concerned with State Depart-
ment operations, and inadequate In pro-
viding in-service training. My bill would
not dissolve the Institute. It would, how-
ever, transfer FSI to the board of trustees
for incorporation into the overall Corps
program and relieve the Stag Depart-
ment of this educational function.
Let it be clear that this proposal is not
Intended primarily to train Foreign
Service officers. Indeed, the chief thrust
Is to create a definitive program for all
personnel of the Government who are or
No. 110
-will be working in the field of foreign
relations. The fact that we now have ap-
proximately 3,387 active Foreign Serv-
ice officers but more than 22 times that
many people working abroad for the
Government marks this distinction.
If the Foreign Service Corps becomes
law, the responsibility for the basic edu-
cation of these people will remain in
non-Government hands. Career cur-
riculums are now offered in international
relations in at least 77 Institutions in 31
States, the District of Columbia, and
Puerto Rico. The same is true for Foreign
Service and diplomacy in at least 41 In-
stitutions In 21 States and the District
of Columbia. With the advent of the
Corps, more programs will be established
and more colleges and universities will
establish them. Can we afford not to
mobilize this resource?
The capital investment for the Mili-
tary Academy, the Naval Academy, and
the Air Force Academy for buildings and
grounds Is approximately $335 million.
This does not include money paid out for
equipment. And the budgeted operating
costs for the three for fiscal year 1969
exceed $132 million. The Foreign Service
Corps would have little or no capital in-
vestment in these Items, and is esti-
mated to have an annual operating cost
of less than one-half that of the three
military academics, even If at the full
strength of 20,000. It Is imperative that
we support the excellent programs un-
derway at these Academies. But Con-
gress must also act on the need to make
available the finest educational opportu-
nities to those who serve this country in
a nonmilitary capacity be it in diplo-
matic, cultural, or commercial affairs,
for it is upon the effectiveness of these
citizens that we may well depend as to
whether armed conflict becomes a
ncccssity.
Unfortunately, our Nation has not yet
developed an efficient total system for
training personnel from all agencies des-
tined for overseas assignments. Inde-
pendent efforts of the many departments
and agencies cannot meet the challenge
as effectively as can a fully coordinated
operation encompassing all considera-
tions that would maximize the beneficial
international impact of the policies of
the United States.
Since each Government employee
abroad is an ambassador of the United
States, logic dictates that the composite
impression they make be the product of
thoughtful planning.
This can be initiated through the For-
eign Service Codas. Such a coordinated
undertaking would be substantially re-
warding to this country and to all man-
kind.
I :wk unanimous consent that trie text
of the bill be printed In the RECORD.
The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The bill
will be received and appropriately re-
ferred; and, without objection, the bill
will be printed In the RECORD.
The bill (S. 3700) to amend the High-
er Education Act of 1965 In order to pro-
vide for a U.S. Foreign Service Corps,
introduced by Mr. DoremNICK, was re-
ceived, read twice by its title, referred to
the Committee on Labor and Public Wel-
fare, and ordered to be printed in the
RECORD, as follows:
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S. 3700
13e it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
Higher Education Act of 1065 is amended by
Inserting at the end thereof a new title as
follows:
"TITLE IX-UNITED STATES FOREIGN
SERVICE CORPS
"ESTABLISHMENT OF CORPS
"SEC. 901, The Congress recognizes that
the world and the universe are growing
smaller In terms of time and space which
necessitates now, and will demand In the fu-
ture, constant informed contact, knowledge
and understanding among all the peoples of
the world in diplomatic, cultural and com-
mercial exchanges. The success of these ex-
chances and the survival of the world may
depend upon the ability, education, training
and irtsiligence of the men and women
charged with responsibilities relating to the
foreign relations of the United States. To
assure that there is adequate opportunity
for the young men and women of the United
States to enter this vast field with the best
possible training of their natural abilities
and to advance the professional education
and training of the officers and employees of
the Government currently engaged in the
field of foreign relations, there Is hereby es-
tablished. as provided In the succeeding pro-
visions of this title, a Corps to be known. as
the United States Foreign Service Corps
(hereafter In this title referred to as the
"Corps"). The Corps shall consist of all stu-
dents admitted to the Corps under section
905, and all officers and employees of the
Government admitted to the Corps under
section 907, who are enrolled in a program
of education, training, or research, or a
course of study, approved by the Board tin-
der section 904.
"DEFINITIONS
"SEC. 902. As used In this title-
"(a) 'Government' means the Government
of the United States;
(b) 'Institution of higher learning' means
an educational institution in any State or
the District of Columbia which (1) admits
as regular students only persons having a
certificate of graduation from a school pro-
viding secondary education, or the recog-
nized equivalent, (2) is legally authorized
to provide a program of education beyond
secondary education, (3) provides an edu-
cational program for which It awards a
bachelor's degree or a graduate degree, (4)
is a public or non-profit institution, and (5)
is accredited by a nationally recognized ac-
crediting agency or association, or, if not
so accredited, Is an institution whose credits
are accepted, on transfer, by not less than
three institutions which are so accredited,
for credit on the same basis as If transferred
from an institution so accredited;
"(c) 'non-Federal institution of higher
learning' means an institution of higher
learning which is not owned or substantially
controlled by the Government of the United
States;
"(d) 'Board' means the Board of Trustees
of the Corps;
"(e) 'department or agency' means an
Executive department, a military depart-
merit, an independent establishment, or a
Government corporation as specified in chap-
ter 1 of title 5, United States Code;
"(f) 'training month' means any month
during which a member of the Corps ad-
mitted under section 905 Is taking at least
the minimum level of credit hours In a full-
time course of study prescribed by the
Board, or is taking field training as assigned
by the Board; and
"(g) 'dependent', when used in relation
to a dependent of a member of the Corps
admitted under section 905, means an in-
dividual who qualifies as a dependent of such
member under section 152 of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1954, as amended.
"BOARD OF TRUSTEES
"SEC. 903. (a) The management and su-
pervision of the Corps shall be vested In a
Board of Trustees. The Board shall develop
and support, as provided hereinafter, pro-
grams of education, training, and research
in the field of foreign relations designed to
prepare, or advance the qualifications of,
members of the Corps for service with the
United States In positions or programs re-
lated to such field.
"(b) The Board shall consist of the Secre-
tary of State, four educators to be appointed
by the President, two members of the United
States Senate to be appointed by the Vice
President, and two members of the House
of Representatives to be appointed by the
Speaker of the House of Representatives. Not
more than one of the trustees appointed
from the Senate nor one of the t.nustces ap-
pointed from the House of Representatives
shall he of the ,ante political party.
"(c) (1) The term of each member of the
Boars appointed from the Senate and the
House of Representatives shall be two Yeat:s.
"(2) The terns of each member of the
Board appointed by the president shall be
tour yr.irs: except that of the first four per-
s,uns appointed by the President two shall
be drsi?-,,Hated to serve for two year,; and two
shall be designated to sere for four years
"(3) Members of for Board shall be eli-
gible for reappointment.
"(d) Vacancies crc:.ted by dcat'i or resig-
nation shall be filled in the same manner in
which the original appointment was made,
except that the person appointed to fill the
vacancy shall be appointed only for the un-
expired term of the trustee whom he shall
succeed.
"(e) Members of the Board shall serve
without pay, but shall be entitled to reim-
bursement for travel, subsistence, and other
necessary expenses incurred in the perform-
ance of their duties.
"ESTABLISHMENT OF CORPS PROGRAMS
"SEC. 904. (a) In order to carry out the
purposes of this title, the Board is author-
ized and directed to make arrangements with
qualified non-Federal institutions of higher
learning providing for the admission of quail-
tied members of the Corps to such institu-
tions for their enrollment in programs oper-
ates by and at such Institutions which are
designed to-
"(1) enable qualified students who are ad-
mitted to the Corps pursuant to section 905
to pursue full-time courses of study ap-
proved by the Board relating to the field of
foreign relations and leading to the granting
of an undergraduate or graduate degree,
"(2) enable qualified officers and em-
ployees of the Government having duties or
responsibilities in the field of foreign rela-
tions who are admitted to the Corps pur-
suant to section 907 to pursue, on a volun-
tary basis and on such terms and conditions
as the Board may prescribe, professional ed-
ucation, training and research activities ap-
proved by the Board relating to the field of
foreign relations, including selected subjects
from a general curriculum, or to pursue full-
time courses of study approved by the Board
relating to the field of foreign relations and
leading to an undergraduate or graduate de-
gree; and
"(3) enable selected members of the Corps
to engage in research activities approved by
the Board relating to the field of foreign
relations.
In addition, such arrangements shall provide
for a program of appropriate orientation and
language training by and at such institu-
tions for members of the families of persons
admitted to the Corps or of officers and em-
ployees of the Government who are not mem-
bers of the Corps, but have duties or re-
sponsibilities in the field of foreign rela-
tions, in anticipation of, or on account of,
the assignment of such members of the
Corps or officers or employees of the Gov-
ernment to a foreign country or area.
"(b) In carrying out its functions under
subsection (a), the Board shall not enter
into any arrangement with a non-Federal
institution of higher learning unless such
arrangement provides that such institutton
will offer to members of the Corps, as a part
of its curriculum, courses of study or activ-
ities of education, training, or research In
the field of foreign relations approved by the
Board as satisfactory in order to prepare, or
advance the qualifications of, members of
the Corps for service with the United States
in positions or programs related to the field
of foreign relations.
"(c) The number of persons who may re-
ceive instruction and training under the
various programs of the Corps shall be deter-
mined by the Board; except that not more
than 4,300 students may he admitted under
section 905 as new members of the Corps in
any academic year for the purpose of pur-
suing courses of study leading to an tinder-
graduate degree, and not more than 700 stu-
dents may be admitted under section 905 as
new members of the Corps in any academic
year for the purpose of pursuing courses of
study leading to a graduate degree.
"NOMINATION AND ADMISSION OF STUDENTS-
INTO CORPS
"Sec. 905. (a) The Board shall provide for
the holding of annual competitive under-
graduate and graduate examinations to de-
tcrinine the admission of applicants into the
Corps from among students who are nom-
inated pursuant to subsection (c). Such ex-
aminations shall test the intellectual capac-
ities and training of the applicant and his
aptitude for service in the field of foreign
relations, The Board shall develop such ex-
aminations in consultation with non-Federal
institutions of higher learning with which It
has made arrangements tinder secton 904.
"(b) Applicants for the annual under-
graduate examination held by the Board
:hall be citizens of the United States who are
graduates of, or attending, a public secondary
school In, or any private secondary school
accredited by, a State, or a public or private
secondary school in a foreign country which
in the judgment of the Board provides an
educational program for which It awards a
certificate of graduation generally accepted
as coustitutitg the equivalent of that
awarded by secondary schools accredited by a
State. Applicants for the annual graduate
ex,iniination held b} the Board shall be citi-
zens of the United States who are graduates
of, or nttending, an inst.it-cation of higher
learning in the United States or of an insti-
tution of higher learning In It foreign
country which provides an educational pro-
gram for which it awards a degree which is
generally accepted as constituting the equiva-
lent of a bachelor's degree awarded by similar
Institutions in the United States. No appli-
cant shall be eligible to take tiny such
examination unless he has first been nomi-
nated pursuant to suhscetdon (c).
"(c) (1) A total of 8,4111 applicants shall
be nominated each year to take the annual
competitive examinations held by the Board
as follows:
"(A) 220 from the United States at large
as follows:
"(1) 100 nominated by the President,
"(ii) 66 nominated by the Vice President,
and
"(111) 54 nominated by the Secretary of
State;
"(B) 30 from each State. 15 nominated
by each Senator from the State:
"(C) 15 from each Congressional District,
nominated by the representative from the
District;
"(D) 3 from each State nominated by the
Governor of the State;
"(E) 7 from the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico nominated by the Resident Comrnls-
sloner from Puerto Rico:
"(F) 10 from the District of Columbia,
nominated by the Commissioner of the Dis-
trict of Columbia:
"(G) 3 from the Virgin Islands, nominated
by the Governor of the Virgin Islands; and
"(H) 3 from the Canal Zone, nominated
by the Governor of the Canal Zone.
"(2) No person may be nominated tinder
clauses (B) through (G), inclusive, of para-
graph (1) unless such person is domiciled In
the State, or in the Congressional District.
from which such person is nominated, or In
the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands if nomi-
nated from one of those places. To he eligible
for nomination by the Governor of the Canal
Zone, a person must be a resident of the
Canal Zone, or a member of the family of a
resident of the Canal Zone, or a member of
the family of a civilian officer or employee of
the United States or the Panama Canal Com-
pany residing In the Republic of Panama.
"(3) After the initial three years of opera-
tion of the Corps, if the Board determines
that the total number of applicants who will
he qualified and admitted as new members
in the Corps prior to the beginning of any
academic year under this section for the pur-
pose of pursuing courses of study during such
arademic year leading to undergraduate or
graduate degrees, respectively, will be below
the total number of applicants who may be
so admitted to the Corps In accordance with
section 904 (c), the Board may nominate to
take a competitive examination held prior to
such academic year, and select for admission
to the Corps, in tae order of merit estaoristleu
by such examination, such additional number
of eligible applicants as the Board finds will
be necessary to meet the needs of the Corps
programs in such academic: year and will not
exceed the limitations set forth In section
904 (c).
"(d) Applicants tinder this section shall
be selected for membership In the Corps in
the order of merit established by the annual
examinations held by the Board pursuant to
this section, but no person shall be eligible
for admission as a member of tlse Corps un-
less he is a graduate of it public or private
secondary school described in subsection (b)
in the case of it student intending to pursue
a course of study leading to an undergrad-
uate degree or it graduate of in l1Ct.i trllion
of higher learning described in subsection
(b) in the case of a student Intending to
pursue a course of study leading tit it grad-
uate degree.
"(e) Except as provided In this section, no
competitive or other similar examination
shall be required for admission of any person
as a member of the Corps under this section.
"COMPENSArION AND PAYMENT OF EXPrNSES AND
SUBSISTF.NCr: FOR STUDENT MEMBERS
"SEC. 906. (a) Members of the Corps who
are admitted under section 905 and are main-
taining satisfactory progress in, and taking at
least the minimum level of credit hours In,
full-time courses of study as prescribed by
the Board shall be compensated for tuition,
texts, laboratory fees and associated course
materials, and shall receive subsistence pity-
ments as provided In this section. No com-
pensation or payments shall be made except
in accordnnrr, with procedures established by
the Board to assuro their accuracy and ap-
propriateness.
"(b) The subsistence payments which shall
be payable tinder this section are as follows:
"(1) A single student member shall re-
ceive $130 subsistence pay per training
month.
"(2) A married student member havlnc a
dependent spouse shall receive $175 subsist-
ence pay per training month, and if they
have it dependent child or children an addi-
tional allowance of $15 for each dependent
child shall be paid per training month.
"(3) Where both it husband and wile utem-
her are students under n Corps program and
are cohabiting their joint subsistence pity
shall be $250 per training month, and if they
hate it dependent child or children an addi-
tional allowance of $15 for each dependent
child shall be paid per training month.
''p1) Where both a husband and a wile
member are students under a Corp; pr"rr,wi
and are legally separated the..
ceive the same subsistence ptv i r,.n,,ng
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nccditi0nal allowance of $15 per training sx:ribcd by (1) the P'>_ard In the case of su a rta} for individuals.
mouth ;Hall be paid to the entitled spouse dents ;uimit o the ? )r1) employing section "ACQu1sITTo OF RE ALIT )A RU PERSONAL PROPERTY (to,- 13Y fur e5ch dependent child. 905, or (2) the The Board shall have the power ase "(5) Student members shill bey training p-artilient or agency
officers .ti d employees cst ected ftor ad- to "SEC. acqu 9ir1e3. and hold property, roa.1 or per-
mo additional hd tire of per sonal, and to receive and accept money or
month for each dependent not a sppu.