International Education Programs Act

International Education Programs Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish a new title VI of such Act: "International Education Programs."

Establishes International and Foreign Studies Programs under HEA. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to or contracts with institutions of higher education for establishing, strengthening, and operating graduate and undergraduate centers for modern foreign language studies, foreign area studies, international studies, and the international aspects of professional and other fields of study. Authorizes grants to such centers to maintain important library collections. Authorizes stipends to individuals undergoing advanced training at such centers.

Authorizes grants for advanced international studies centers and for undergraduate international studies and foreign language programs to institutions of higher education, combinations of such institutions, and private nonprofit agencies and organizations.

Authorizes the Secretary to conduct research and studies to contribute to such programs and the International Understanding programs established by this Act under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). Directs the Secretary to publish an annual report on such matters.

Directs the Secretary to make excellence the criterion of such grants and, consistent with such criterion, to seek an equitable distribution of such funds throughout the Nation.

Directs the Secretary to convene meetings of an advisory board on the conduct of such HEA programs and the ESEA International Understanding programs.

Authorizes appropriations to carry out such HEA International and Foreign Language programs for fiscal years 1981 through 1985.

Establishes Business and International Education Programs under HEA. Directs the Secretary to make grants to and contracts with institutions of higher education to pay the Federal share of the cost of programs designed to promote linkages between such institutions and the American business community engaged in international economic activities.

Limits the Federal share to 50 percent of the cost of such program for each fiscal year.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) convene meetings of an advisory board on the conduct of such programs; and (2) publish an annual report on such matters.

Authorizes appropriations to carry out the HEA Business and International Education Programs for fiscal years 1981 through 1985.

Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to establish International Understanding programs under an "International Understanding Act."

Authorizes the Secretary to stimulate, by grant or contract, educational programs to increase the understanding of students and the public in the U.S. about the cultures and actions of other nations in order to better evaluate the international and domestic impact of major national policies.

Allows such assistance to be made: (1) to any public or private agency or organization; (2) for inservice training and for compilation and dissemination of information and resources, but not for equipment acquisition or facility remodeling; (3) for programs at all levels, including community, adult, and continuing education; and (4) for critically important foreign language instruction by local educational agencies.

Authorizes appropriations for the ESEA International Understanding programs for fiscal years 1981 through 1985.

Repeals the foreign studies and language development program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 and the grant programs for advanced and undergraduate international studies of the International Education Act of 1966.