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  • International Education Week 2012
    International Education Week 2012

    International Education Week (IEW) is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide... 

  • The Impact of International Student Exchanges: Changing Minds, Changing Lives
    The Impact of International Student Exchanges: Changing Minds, Changing Lives

    September 10, 2012 — Thank you. I am delighted to join you here at the Principal Financial Group Center for Global Citizenship. Thank you, President David Maxwell, for hosting me and for being such a wonderful friend, colleague, and former professor at Tufts. As you’ve just heard, I am the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. In that role, I work to promote our policy objectives by increasing understanding between the United States and other nations.  

  • U.S. Government Expands Program for International Students
    U.S. Government Expands Program for International Students

    May 14, 2012 Washington — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced May 11 an expanded list of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) designated-degree programs that qualify eligible graduates on student visas for an optional practical training (OPT) extension. 

  • INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK 2009
    INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK 2009

    November 16, 2009 International Education Week is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education is part of our efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to ... 

  • Educational Exchange with South Korea for 2007/08
    Educational Exchange with South Korea for 2007/08

    2008 Source: Open Doors: Report on International Educational Exchange, published annually by IIE with support from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. For more information, including press releases on foreign students in the U.S. and U.S. study abroad, and FAQs, including definitions of foreign students and ... 

  • U.S. Department of State Offers Grant for Foreign Language Study
    U.S. Department of State Offers Grant for Foreign Language Study

    April 17, 2008 The Department of State is pleased to announce the publication of its solicitation for the National Security Language Initiative-Youth (NSLI-Y) program. This grant program, under the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, targets seven languages and language families, including: Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Indic, and Farsi ...