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Washington, March 10, 2020 – NAFSA is pleased to announce seven exemplary U.S. universities and colleges as recipients of the 2020 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization. Named after the late Senator Paul Simon of Illinois, the NAFSA Simon Awards recognize outstanding innovation

Washington, February 11, 2020 – Nicholas Kristof, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, will speak at the NAFSA 2020 Annual Conference & Expo in St. Louis, Missouri. He will address the conference on May 26, 2020. Described as the “moral conscience” of international

Washington, February 4, 2020 – Michele Norris, acclaimed journalist, author, and social advocate, will moderate a panel discussion focusing on social justice at the NAFSA 2020 Annual Conference & Expo in St. Louis, Missouri. The panel, which will be held on May 27, 2020, will feature experts from

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