"Black students made up 15 percent of the total college student population enrolled in the fall of 2011, but represented just 5.3 percent of students who went abroad that school year," reports Allie Bidwell in an article in U.S. News and World Report about the barriers to study abroad. She shares ways that colleges and universities are increasing access and highlights Kent State University’s pilot program to encourage study abroad among "minorities or those from low-income families who might not have had the opportunity to go overseas otherwise."