June 2010
Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, spoke yesterday at the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) about the importance of ensuring sustained funding for the Foreign Service and other “civilian elements” of the U.S. national security strategy.
The White House last Thursday transmitted a new National Security Strategy to Congress. The 60-page document includes two references to the value of exchange programs. In a discussion of how the U.S. will engage with the world:
Below please find the listing of Federal Register announcements issued by the U.S. Departments of State, Education, and Homeland Security, and USAID since 05/21/10.
Below please find the listing of Federal Register announcements issued by the U.S. Departments of State, Education, and Homeland Security, and USAID since 05/28/10.
The Department of State announced in this morning’s Federal Register that it will hold a public meeting on June 17 to discuss the proposed rule on the high school category.
The meeting will be held at the State Department, from 9:00 until 11:00 a.m.
Please note that you must register in advance (by June 11) to attend this meeting, per the instructions below.
The full text of the announcement follows:
Challenging the United States to develop, through international education, into “a multi-literate, multi-lingual society,” Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called on Americans to engage their global counterparts and help “secure our common future” at a Council on Foreign Relations-sponsored speech at Georgetown University on May 26:
“Through education and exchange we can become better collaborators and competitors in this global economy.”
As more than 7,000 international education and exchange professionals descended last week on downtown Kansas City for the 2010 Annual NAFSA Conference and Expo, the editorial board of the Kansas City Star took note, publishing an op-ed in support of international exchange:
NPR reported last week that Senators have placed “holds” on 120 executive and judicial nominees, done in most cases anonymously. A “’hold’ is an informal Senate custom that allows any lawmaker to delay action on any bill or nomination at any time for any reason.”
The “door has been cracked open” to the previously “taboo” subject of American universities hiring overseas agents to recruit international students, the Chronicle of Higher Education and InsideHigherEd.com both report.
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced last Friday in an article in the Huffington Post that he will introduce a bill in Congress in the coming weeks “to create a new professional exchange program between the United States and Muslim-majority countries”:
