The U.S. faces an urgent education issue that will directly affect our nation’s wellbeing for generations to come:  the global competence of Americans.  Yet international and foreign language education—the essential means to building global competence—is in jeopardy due to diminishing federal, state and private support.

 

The Coalition for International Education and the College of William & Mary are co-sponsoring a major policy conference on the future of international education in the U.S., to be held in Williamsburg, VA on April 11-13, 2014. Please plan to join leaders in academia, K-12 education, business, government, and the NGO sectors for a timely national review and discussion about our human resource needs for global competence, and innovative strategies and structures to prepare our students for the global era.  We will focus in particular on the role of the U.S. Department of Education’s Higher Education Act -Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs, and K-12 foreign language education.  Title VI is due for reauthorization in 2014-15 in the context of new developments in educational technology, the growing demand for global competence in the US workforce, and ongoing US diplomatic and national security challenges around the world.  

 

Details of the conference program and registration will be available later this fall.  Please mark your calendars.