► Don’t forget that registration for the 2010 Membership Meeting is now available. Register today! [Participation in the Membership Meeting is reserved for Alliance Full Members only.] Reserve a room at the DuPont Hotel for the nights of October 4, 5, and/or 6 at the discounted rate of $299 by calling the hotel at 866-534-6835, or 202-483-6000.

► Assistant Secretary Ann Stock sent out a message via the DipNote blog encouraging more Americans to “[open] their homes and hearts and personally [engage] with people from all over the world” by hosting exchange students.

► Two YES program alums blogged in major media sources: Maad Sharaf from Yemen shared his thoughts in the Huffington Post about how a year in the U.S. changed his life, while Sher Bano from Pakistan wrote in the New York Times about the devastating floods affecting her country.

► The Chronicle of Higher Education featured efforts by U.S. universities to better integrate international students into their campuses, and also noted how a Department of State travel warning has led to a decline in the number of U.S. students studying in Mexico.

► Branch campuses of Western schools are set to open in South Korea in what was billed by the New York Times as a “bold experiment.”

► Your weekly Federal Register listing.