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Washington, January 31, 2020 — Today, at a White House press briefing on the coronavirus, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar declared a public health emergency in the United States.

Washington, January 31, 2020 — Today, President Trump announced an expansion of restrictions on immigrants from Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania who are trying to come to the United States, bringing the total number of countries affected by a travel ban to 13. The following

Washington, January 21, 2020 - Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, one of the world’s leading defenders of universal human rights, will speak at the NAFSA 2020 Annual Conference & Expo in St. Louis, Missouri. He will address the conference on May 28, 2020. Courageous and outspoken, Al Hussein has called on all

Washington, January 14, 2020 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Olympic Gold Medalist, advocate, and philanthropist for children’s education, racial equality, social justice, and women’s rights, and author of “A Kind of Grace,” will speak at the NAFSA 2020 International Education Conference in her hometown of

Washington, D.C.— This past Friday, 118 public and private universities and colleges filed an amicus brief in the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers Union vs. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Washtech) litigation to defend the long-standing immigration program known as Optional Practical

Washington, November 18, 2019 – NAFSA: Association of International Educators will host its seventh Research Symposium - A Critical Discussion of Theories, Methodologies, and Practices in International Education - at Gallaudet University on November 22, 2019. Researchers and scholars in the field of

WASHINGTON, November 18, 2019 – NAFSA: Association of International Educators and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) will host an event exploring best practices in peacebuilding shared by experts from the peacebuilding and international education communities. Higher education institutions

Washington, November 18, 2019 – NAFSA: Association of International Educators announced new data today that show that the more than one million international students at U.S. colleges and universities contributed nearly $41 billion to the U.S. economy and supported 458,290 jobs during the 2018-2019

WASHINGTON – Representatives Cheri Bustos (IL-17) and John Katko (NY-24) recently reintroduced the bipartisan Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Program Act. This bill would establish a competitive grant program, run by the Department of Education, for colleges and universities to expand study abroad

NAFSA: Association of International Educators and the British Council have released a new “Shape of Global Higher Education” report, focusing on the Americas.