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Going Green in Vancouver By Carol Zachs Last year, Vancouver set the ambitious goal of becoming the "greenest city" in the world by 2020. The Vancouver Convention Centre (VCC) , venue of this year's conference, is making one big stride

More Scholarships Are Not The Answer For Study AbroadThere is a great conversation going on in the international education community about increasing study abroad participation. On the Diversity Network blog in “More Scholarships Are Not The Answer” Andrew Gordon, founder

NAFSA Members Take to the HillOnce again, I am inspired by the energy from our community of international education advocates. Last week nearly 100 of you from across the country came to Washington, D.C., for NAFSA’s Advocacy Day, and the

"Please stop. I speak English."By Matt Sugrue With great confidence, I strode purposefully to the counter of the patisserie and said, “Ithnaan al qahwa min fa…” The young man working behind the counter raised his hands in front of him

Germany and the Competition for Globally Mobile StudentsI still vividly remember the trip to Germany during which I learned that some higher education institutions there were offering course work, and in some cases entire degrees, in English as well as

Welcome to Vancouver It is a pleasure for NAFSA to introduce Carol Zachs, LAT communications chair for the 2011 Annual Conference & Expo. Carol's expertise about Vancouver will provide you with an insider's look into what the city has to

Leadership Needed to Make Study Abroad Work for More StudentsRecently, an Associated Press article that tells the story of one African American student’s experience with study abroad caught my eye. The student, Sade Adeyina, almost didn’t pursue an opportunity to

The Great Budget Debate of 2011 Setting a Course for a Competitive, Prosperous FutureOne of our country’s periodic “great debates” is in full swing. This one constitutes an early round in the national conversation that we need to have about

The Way Forward Panel Discusses Next Steps for Fostering U.S. Cuba EngagementEarlier this week I attended an event at the Brookings Institution called “U.S. Cuba Relations Moving Policy forward in 2011 and Beyond,” that was organized in light of the

Getting It Right The Need for a National Dialogue on Comprehensive InternationalizationThere have been some interesting discussions recently about the future of internationalization of U.S. higher education. From more than one quarter, including a recent NAFSA task force last fall,