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Friday Postcard from the NAFSA 2008 Annual Conference The 60th Anniversary International Plenary and Luncheon took place on the final day of NAFSA’s 2008 Annual Conference. Keynote speaker Amy Chua, the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School, signed copies of her book. The gathering

Getting Ready for Houston! I had a great planning meeting this week with the Local Arrangements Team (LAT) in Houston. LAT co-chairs Rose Mary Valencia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Jin Zhang, University of Houston, have put together a fabulous local team. Their combination

Thursday Postcard from the NAFSA 2008 Annual Conference The morning started off with a dialogue with advisers to U.S. presidential candidates on the topic of U.S. Global Leadership and Engagement. The forum was moderated by Dr. Moisés Naím, editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine, and included

The Texan Experience As you've no doubt heard, everything is bigger in Texas. This saying is definitely reflected in the culture here. From the woods of east Texas to oil-rich west Texas and everything in between, Texas is full of culture. I've put together my list of can't-miss things Texas has to

Welcome to Houston! It's a pleasure for NAFSA to introduce Janel Lockwood, Local Arrangements Team communications chair for the 2012 NAFSA Annual Conference & Expo in Houston, Texas. Janel's expertise about Houston will provide you with an insider's look into what the city has to offer. Over the

Traveling Like You Own the Skies "We'd like to invite our business class cabin to board now. We'll begin our general boarding process in just a few minutes; please wait for your zone number to be called before approaching the boarding gate." Does this announcement leave you feeling anxious and

PHASE II: Staying Involved If you are like me, you have spent your professional life discovering how truly broad the field of international education is. You have developed a fount of knowledge and impressive skills, and likely you do not want to retreat into a shell. (Maybe you want to disengage

We Have a Listening Problem If We Aren’t Learning Foreign Languages I wanted to join the conversation about Larry Summers’s remarkable statement in a recent New York Times opinion piece about why we don’t need to learn foreign languages anymore. Mr. Summers advances two reasons why, 25 years from

Resolve to Educate and Advocate in 2012 Like many of you, I tuned in to watch the State of the Union address last week. One thing that struck me was when President Obama said that “no matter what party they belong to, I bet most Americans are thinking the same thing right now: Nothing will get done

Global Dialogue on the Future of Higher Education Internationalization: A Call for Action The International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA) in January hosted a historic global dialogue on the challenges related to internationalization of higher education and the responsibility of