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Bipartisan Vote in Senate Keeps Momentum Going for Commonsense Immigration Bill In an important symbolic victory, the Senate voted 84 15 yesterday to move forward on S. 744, the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,” the commonsense immigration

From Transactional to Transformative Rethinking Short Term Service AbroadThe type of study abroad program that institutions and providers plan often reveals hidden perceptions of the destinations and cultures they intend to visit, says Julie Ficarra, an education abroad advisor at

Fostering Moral Leadership A Mission for International EducatorsAs NAFSA's 2013 Annual Conference started to wind to its conclusion, Oscar Arias, former two time president of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, addressed attendees as the guest speaker during the International Plenary

Ideals and Challenges in International EducationInternational educators must always hold themselves to the very highest standards of inclusion regardless of the challenges they may face, Dr. Teresa Amott, president of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, shared with a gathering of

Talent and OpportunityTalent is universal, but opportunity is not. How can one play a role in connecting talent with opportunity? In the Thursday plenary speech of NAFSA’s 2013 Annual Conference, Rye Barcott shared his insights on this question. Insights he

Community Colleges InnovateCommunity colleges often face more challenges than four year colleges and universities when trying to expand international offerings. Funding may be difficult to obtain, and business leaders and trustees are likely to make the institutions focus on meeting

Hard to Believe It's Almost OverBy Stephen Ferst I’m looking over the #nafsa13 and #IamIE tweets and it’s incredible to see all of the activity that has taken place this past week. Hard to keep up with it. Last night

Dr Q From Harvest to Hopkins Last Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance an immigration reform bill that would place 11 million undocumented immigrants on a path to citizenship. A path Alfredo Quiñones Hinojosa forged for himself nearly

What Would You Do with $30 million?By Stephen Ferst I want to start the day by congratulating Masume Assaf and Philip Altbach, winners of the Higbee and Houlihan awards. They have both contributed so much to the field and to

Forging a Convention for Crimes Against HumanityIt may surprise some to know the United States is not one of the 122 sovereign states which have ratified or agreed to the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC). "When I go