Editorial by Stacie Nevadomski Berdan, the author of “Get Ahead by Going Abroad” and an upcoming book on “Raising Global Children.”
Posted September 15, 2009 in the Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Go to article “No More Cuts! Keep Foreign Languages in Schools”

NAFSA: Association of International Educators announced the 2009 recipients of the Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization. The institutions are: Boston University, Connecticut College, Pacific Lutheran University, Portland State University, and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
The colleges will be featured in the NAFSA report “Internationalizing the Campus 2009″, to be published in the fall.
NAFSA Award [...]

The Fall 2008 conference on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) provides an opportunity for faculty, graduate instructors, and administrators to share expertise in building and managing post-secondary CLAC programs.  A special focus this year will be on the implications of the May 2007 MLA Foreign Language Report (http://www.mla.org/flreport) on [...]

PaCIE’s Board of Directors is now accepting nominations for the David Portlock Award for Outstanding International Educator and Bringing the World to Pennsylvania K-16 Collaboration Award.
The David Portlock Award recognizes international educators in mid-career who have exhibited evidence of on-going mentoring of colleagues in the field, exemplary leadership in international education on their campuses, and [...]

November 12-16, 2007 has been declared as this year’s International Education Week.
This is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States. The [...]

This bill passed unanimously in the House of Representatives on June 5, 2007
This bill would authorize establishing a program to encourage U.S. students to study overseas. The purposes of this Act are–
1) to significantly enhance the global competitiveness and international knowledge base of the United States by ensuring that more United States students have the [...]