Carnegie Mellon University and La Roche College are among eight colleges nationally being singled out for awards by NAFSA: The Association of International Educators, the Washington, D.C., organization announced Tuesday.

The awards are named for the late Sen. Paul Simon, who was an advocate of international education and foreign language instruction.

CMU is among five schools receiving the 2010 Award for Comprehensive Internationalization, which honors "overall excellence in campus internationalization," NAFSA said. La Roche was one of three other schools that received a Spotlight Award for a specific international program or initiative - in La Roche's case, for its Pacem in Terris Program and an annual several-day global problems, global solutions conference.

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