The Chronicle of Higher Education reports today that applications to overseas-study programs this summer and fall are down, and the economy may be to blame. One-third of respondents to a survey conducted by the University of Mary Washington and NAFSA indicated that they have experienced a decrease in fall study abroad applications:

"There has been a great deal of uncertainty about the effect of the global economic crisis on student enrollments in study abroad. On the one hand, belt tightening could cause students and their families to see overseas study as an unaffordable luxury and make students stick close to their campuses, international educators fear.