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.
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On May 7, 2009, U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) reintroduced the National Foreign Language Coordination Act, with Senators Thad Cochran (R-MS), Christopher J. Dodd (D-CT), and Richard Durbin (D-IL) as cosponsors. The bill would create a National Foreign Language Coordination Council, directed by a National Language Advisor appointed by the President to develop and [...]