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Coburn amendment rejected, exchange programs unaffected

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Exchanges received no increase in FY11 budget request

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Review the FY 2010 exchanges budget by program

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State Department educational and cultural exchanges funded at $635 million for FY 2010

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  • Stock lays out priorities for exchange programs
    Image credit: Embassy of Hungary

    Ann Stock (above right, with wife of Hungarian Ambassador to the U.S. Andrea Bors Somogyi) called exchanges "a quintessentially American form of diplomacy" during her confirmation hearing for Assistant Secretary of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

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  • Kerry and Lugar introduce State authorization bill
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    Sens. John Kerry (D-MA) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) introduced the Foreign Relations Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011, which would provide "authority and policy guidance" to the State Department.

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  • Exchange programs as tool of soft power
    Image credit: worldlearningnow.wordpress.com (Iraqi IVLP participants with Sec. Clinton)

    Carol Atkinson examines the effects of U.S.-hosted military and civilian exchange programs on democracy and human rights in the participants’ home countries in a recent issue of Foreign Policy Analysis. 

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  • Include your org in the 2011 Intl. Exchange Locator
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    Get your free organizational profile in the 2011 edition of the International Exchange Locator: A Resource Directory for Educational and Cultural Exchange, the only comprehensive directory of U.S.-based organizations that administer exchange programs. 

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The Alliance Policy Monitor - Timely, authoritative reporting on exchange news and polciy trends

Under Secretary McHale’s visit to India focuses on public outreach, foreign education
Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 19:08
Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Judith McHale, currently in India, is “exploring new ways to enhance people-to-people contact between the two countries.” In an interview with LiveMint.com, McHale noted that she is looking for “new ways to expand...
Stock lays out priorities for exchange at confirmation hearing
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 15:35
“Exchanges are a quintessentially American form of diplomacy that, if confirmed, I would hope to increase, to amplify, and to sustain in a lasting and meaningful way,” Ann Stock, nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, said during her confirmation...
High school notice in today's Federal Register
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 15:30
The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) published today in the Federal Register a relatively brief notice about high school programs. This is not the withdrawn rule (which is reportedly pending at the Office of Management and Budget), but a different notice of the Department’s...
FY 2011 exchanges budget request in detail
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 22:41
The Obama administration’s FY 2011 budget, released yesterday, requested $58.5 billion for the entire international affairs budget (or 150 Account), representing a $6.1 billion (or 11.6 per cent) increase over total FY 2010 enacted international affairs spending. As the U.S.
First of three U.S. Science Envoys arrives in Cairo
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 15:17
Dr. Ahmed Zewail, a Nobel Prize winning chemist, visited Cairo, Egypt earlier this month as the first U.S. Science Envoy “to discuss how the United States can work with Egypt to strengthen science and technology cooperation.” DipNote reports that while in Cairo, Dr. Zewail met with many...