Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban MilwaukeeThe federal grant program that has helped fund foreign language education and programming at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and across the country for more than 60 years has been canceled by the Trump administration. More than 50 students at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee were receiving fellowship dollars ranging from about $15,000 to $38,000 a year. The office responsible for administering the grants — International and Foreign Language Education — was dissolved and its entire staff laid off in March by the Department of Education. Elliott Brandsma is a UW-Madison Ph.D. student who was awarded a fellowship through the Foreign Language and Area Studies Program. I worry that our education model is going to become so myopic that it’s really not serving anybody.”Listen to the WPR reportFederal grant that funded Wisconsin foreign language for more than 60 years cut was originally published by Wisconsin Public Radio.