Inclusion and Equity

Noelle Baldwin

Noelle Baldwin (she/her) is the Director of Diversity Relations & Advising at IES Abroad, leading their Initiative to Diversify Education Abroad (IDEA). With over 16 years in higher education, her work spans International Admission to study abroad, focusing on supporting marginalized students in U.S
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Leadership Essentials for Comprehensive Internationalization

Ready to take the next step in your IE career to lead an international office? Or have you recently been assigned to oversee your institution’s internationalization enterprise and need to get up to speed fast? This program addresses the essential leadership capabilities any international education
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X Gender Marker Passport Advising Resource

Following up on recent questions about the “X” gender marker on U.S. passports and the new CBP sex-field validation, here’s the most current summary: In January 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14168: “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the
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Title IX Regulations in the Study Abroad Context

On Monday, April 29, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education published their final rule titled Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance, which will amend the regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of
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GSLR 2024: Community

On behalf of NAFSA’s Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship Knowledge Community (TLS KC), we are pleased to present Issue No. 13 of the Global Studies Literature Review ( GSLR). The theme of this issue, “Recentering, Reprioritizing, and Reengaging a Sense of Community within International Education,”
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