The American Council on Education discusses current initiatives and policies to promote internationalization at the higher education level. The article discusses four key aspects including student mobility, scholar mobility, cross-border education and internationalization at home. It appears that funding for higher education in the U.S is a top issue to keep any program afloat. The major agencies that are involved funding internationalizing U.S higher education include the federal government, state government, accrediting agencies and higher education institutions.

The White house and the state department initiated a few programs that will assist with student mobility from other countries, yet this has not really proven to be much of success because there is no federal funding to sustain these programs.

On multiple occasions, the article addresses how federal funding, as well as a general contribution to internationalization, is something that is vastly important to internationalization policies in U.S.  Majority of the funding for higher education, of course, comes at a state level, which is not substantial towards meeting the goals that other countries have achieved. Non-governmental agencies, accrediting agencies and institutions themselves  all continue to help fund policies as well but at a much lower rate then desired to sustain certain policies as well as  kick start any new ones .

However, what federal government is wholeheartedly supporting is the mobility of scholars and research collaboration policies. That is due to the internal interest that the federal government has to be more competitive in the global market. This is only showing true for mainly America. Canada, for example, received about 60 percent of international funding from the federal government for the past couple of years.

Cross-Border education as mentioned in international ACE report is also is a low priority to receive and or maintain federal regulation or funding.

Internationalization at home is focused mainly at the institutional level. Development and foreign language programs are not funded regularly, causing more program cuts. Furthermore, the U.S government does not have a specific target for a number of outbound mobility.Overall there seems to be a lack of broadly inclusive policies and a goals that the US is looking to further international education .

However, according to U.S Department of education federal government only contributes a small amount of funds towards education . The Policy-making mainly comes at a state level. According to recent news  Obama has been looking to promote more involvement of federal government in higher education sphere, however, with more funding from the Federal government there would also be more strict regulation. Hence, the problems raised by the ACE report might not be solved as swiftly, if federal involvement comes with the funds that they are needing to keep internationalization thriving in the U.S.