► The registration deadline for Advocacy Day is today, so go online and register now: http://www.alliance-exchange.org/policy-monitor/01/10/2012/register-now-our-2012-advocacy-day-and-raise-your-voice-international-exch.
If your organization still wants to register staff members after today, please just let us know by emailing Lisa at lheyn@alliance-exchange.org.

Please note that participation in Advocacy Day is reserved for Alliance Full Members only.

► Last week, Speaker Boehner announced the 2012 Congress Bundestag Exchange which will send a U.S. delegation to Germany in April and bring a German delegation to Washington, DC in May.

► During a trip to Florida last week, President Obama took actions to boost travel and tourism in the United States, including an Executive Order tasking the Departments of State and Homeland Security with increasing non-immigrant visa processing capacity in China and Brazil.

► In a recent USA Today op-ed, travel writer Rick Stevens argued that study abroad is not a “luxury” but a “necessity” and “vital investment” for American students.

► The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) announced on Thursday that it has named Lynne Weil Director of Communications and External Affairs.

► Local News Stories of the week:

• Brush Rotary Exchange students fits right in at BHS (Brush News-Tribune, Colorado)
• Costa Rican students get taste of Hudson during exchange visit (Hudson Hub Times, Ohio)
• Cannon school hosts Chinese students (Independent Tribune, North Carolina)
• Glencoe girl visiting France as Rotary’s exchange student (The Hillsboro Argus, Oregon)
• Foreign exchange students call the area home (Westlake Bay Village Observer, Ohio)

Find all Local News Stories here.

► Your weekly Federal Register listing.